{"id":32750,"date":"2016-12-16T11:48:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T19:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/beer-pump-lets-customers-order-pay-and-serve-themselves"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:57:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:57:33","slug":"beer-pump-lets-customers-order-pay-and-serve-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/beer-pump-lets-customers-order-pay-and-serve-themselves","title":{"rendered":"Beer pump lets customers order, pay and serve themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beer-pump-lets-customers-order-pay-and-serve-themselves.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As pubs and bars in the UK get busier in the run up to Christmas, Barclaycard has uncorked a way to reduce the time people spend waiting to be served. Pay @ Pump is a beer pump that allows customers to pour their own pint and pay with a contactless card in as little as a minute.<\/p>\n<p>According to Barclaycard, people spend an average of 12 minutes per order waiting to be served over the Christmas period. The Pay @ Pump system is designed to reduce customer queuing time and speed up service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure everyone has been stuck behind the person who orders the most complicated cocktail on the menu or a round of 10 drinks for their group of friends,\u201d explains Barclaycard\u2019s commercial director for digital consumer payments Tami Hargreaves. \u201cWhen people told us that waiting time was one of their biggest annoyances, we wanted to help solve a common problem with a simple solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/barclaycard-pay-pump-contactless-beer-pump\/46997\/\">http:\/\/newatlas.com\/barclaycard-pay-pump-contactless-beer-pump\/46997\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As pubs and bars in the UK get busier in the run up to Christmas, Barclaycard has uncorked a way to reduce the time people spend waiting to be served. Pay @ Pump is a beer pump that allows customers to pour their own pint and pay with a contactless card in as little as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65566,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32750\/revisions\/65566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}