CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At NRA Show 2015, Heartland Payment Systems (NYSE:HPY), one of the nation’s largest payment processors and providers of integrated products and services to more than 18 percent of the restaurant industry, will demonstrate its entire menu of secure solutions for restaurateurs, including a card data security solution and a comprehensive breach warranty.
At booth #8007 in the North Hall of McCormick Place in Chicago, Heartland will feature Heartland Secure™, a comprehensive credit/debit card data security solution that combines three powerful technologies, Heartland’s proprietary Heartland E3® end-to-end encryption and tokenization, and Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV), all working together to provide restaurateurs with the highest level of protection available against card-present data fraud.
By removing card data from the transaction, Heartland Secure provides restaurateurs with protection against point-of-sale (POS) intrusions, insider misuse, and other common sources of data fraud by eliminating the opportunity for criminals to capture and monetize card data.
Key Highlights/Facts
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The full Heartland menu, from operations to technology, will feature:
- Heartland Secure installations, which include a comprehensive warranty that protects restaurants from financial liability in the event of a payment card breach. To be covered under the warranty, a restaurant must process its transactions with Heartland on the Heartland Secure device.
- Heartland Guest, a restaurant and consumer suite of contemporary services delivered in an app and designed with the restaurateur in mind. Heartland Guest is composed of online reservation, wait-list management and mobile-ordering services for use by restaurants to help them reduce expenses, improve operations and increase profitability, while simultaneously enhancing consumers’ dining experiences.
- Heartland Commerce, which delivers leading-edge POS solutions, payment processing capabilities and other adjacent and integrated business service applications for restaurants.
- Heartland Payroll, a complete, customizable payroll processing and related tax-filing services for restaurant owners.
- Heartland Lending, which offers loans from $5,000 to $2 million by partnering with a variety of low-cost funding sources.
- Heartland SmartLink, a managed network solution that helps restaurants oversee all of their devices, manage core restaurant systems and consumer access, and process credit cards over the Internet, with an added benefit of one-call U.S.-based customer support available 24 hours per day.
- Heartland Guest Engagement, a full suite of consumer-engagement solutions for restaurateurs including mobile and card-based gift and rewards and marketing services to restaurant locations through real-time communications with a restaurant’s POS.
- More than 11,500 U.S.-based restaurants currently use Heartland Secure.
- Heartland is exclusively endorsed by the National Restaurant Association (NRA).
Heartland Speakers at NRA Show 2015
- David Gilbert, president of hospitality group and payroll, and Michael English, vice president of product development: “Data Security: A Deep Dive into Data Breaches, Tech, and Your Business,” Monday, May 18, 1 to 2 p.m. (CDT), booth #5575, North Hall, McCormick Place.
- Sarah Owen, senior vice president of Heartland marketing solutions: “Keep It on the Download: Demystifying Mobile Apps,” Tuesday, May 19, 1 to 2 p.m. (CDT), booth #5575, North Hall, McCormick Place.
Supporting Quotes
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Robert Carr, chairman and CEO, Heartland
“Protecting customers is our number one priority and our Heartland Secure solution will cover a restaurant’s payment card industry fines and fees in the case of a breach of card information. The Heartland Secure technology that we pioneered materially reduces the opportunity for criminals to monetize encrypted card data. Restaurant operators with Heartland Secure-certified devices, who are processing with us, are fully protected by our comprehensive breach warranty.”
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Paul Hineman, chief financial officer, First Watch
“Our brand and culture are so important that we cannot afford to have that tarnished by inadequate security. Heartland Secure is a comprehensive solution that addresses all of our concerns.”
Editor’s note: First Watch is the largest and fastest growing daytime-only restaurant concept in the U.S. with more than 130 restaurants in 17 states. It also operates 19 restaurants under The Good Egg name in Arizona and one Bread & Company restaurant in Nashville with another under development.
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Chris Whalen, president, KCS Management, owner of Kings Family
Restaurants
“A data breach is catastrophic for any business including restaurants. That is why Kings Family Restaurants relies on Heartland and its Heartland Secure technologies to ensure that our customers’ data is protected from a breach. Heartland is the pioneer when it comes to developing secure technologies and standing by its comprehensive warranty in the event of a data breach.”
Editor’s note: Founded in North Versailles, Penn. more than 46 years ago by Hartley C. King, the Kings Family Restaurants serve more than one million customers a month in 30 locations in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Digital Assets
- [Photos] Robert Carr and Chris Whalen
- [Infographic] A full menu of secure solutions
- [Video] Why It’s Best To Be Out-of-Scope
- [Video] Heartland Secure - Complete Payment Processing Security
Supporting Resources
- Read About Heartland.
- Read About Heartland Secure.
- Read About Heartland at NRA Show 2015.
- Read About First Watch.
- Read About Kings Family Restaurants.
- For more information about Heartland’s news and activities, follow the company via Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook and YouTube.
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About Heartland
Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. (NYSE:HPY), one of the largest payment processors in the United States, delivers credit/debit/prepaid card processing and security technology through Heartland Secure™ and its comprehensive Heartland breach warranty. Heartland also offers point of sale, mobile commerce, e-Commerce, marketing solutions, payroll solutions, and related business solutions and services to more than 300,000 business and educational locations nationwide.
A FORTUNE 1000 company, Heartland is the founding supporter of the Merchant Bill of Rights, a public advocacy initiative that educates merchants about fair credit and debit card processing practices. Heartland also established the Sales Professional Bill of Rights to advocate for the rights of sales professionals everywhere.
