Restaurants and the Electronic Payments Ecosystem: A closer look at Swipe Fees

For restaurant owners and operators, accepting a form of payment that is not “cash only” is an absolute imperative to best serve their customers, and ultimately, to stay in business. However, facilitating credit and debit card payments is often one of the highest costs borne by our industry, only behind labor and food. Join the National Restaurant Association and CMSPI for a webinar focused on the operational ins and outs of the electronic payment ecosystem, including interchange fees, least cost routing, facilitating card-not-present transactions, and credit card surcharging, and learn more about the legislative and regulatory opportunities and hurdles that restaurants are facing in this ecosystem today.