No more paper menus and, above all, no more waiting to pay the bill. Restaurants in which the list of dishes and wines is accessible to the customer directly on a smartphone by framing a QR code are also growing more and more in Italy.
Thus, once connected to the file, the customer can make their own choices, being able to have the progress of the account under control at any time, avoiding unpleasant surprises at the end, and accompanied until the final payment. Without further intervention by the attendants and waiters.
This is what a startup like sunday does, a French payment company recently landed in Italy, borrowing the QR code payment system that is the host in China with giants like AliPay and WeChat, but which is also gaining ground in the West.
To date Sunday, born as a spinoff of Big Mamma, a French chain of restaurants specialized in Italian cuisine, has 6 thousand restaurants globally and three million customers, in seven countries which, in addition to the main European markets, go to the United States, with a total transaction of over 130 million euros.
The business model is based on a percentage of the merchatn’s transactions, which also include the costs of credit cards, while it does not include any installation costs for a system that is now able to integrate with over 25 cash systems.