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Associated Press
13-05-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Square Powers Restaurant Growth with New Handheld Device and Next Generation Food and Beverage Platform
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2025-- Today, Square delivered new hardware and software innovation to help restaurants grow and thrive, including its most powerful, portable point-of-sale device ever and restaurant-specific features and upgrades. Hundreds of thousands of food and beverage sellers have built resilient businesses using Square's refreshingly easy technology to balance scalability and hospitality. These innovations are part of Square Releases, the company's new, twice-yearly product launch that delivers the most important new features and tools, all at once, in a way that's easy for sellers to understand and adopt. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: Square debuts its most complete restaurant solution yet, with new, purpose-built hardware and software to drive restaurant efficiency, hospitality, and growth (Photo: Square) Square Handheld is a powerful and pocketable point of sale for all restaurant businesses. For full-service restaurants, it's taking orders tableside or from across the bar, and for quick-service restaurants, that means cutting down on lines during a busy rush. By eliminating unnecessary trips between tables and the counter, Square Handheld enables servers to provide more attentive service and turn tables more efficiently during peak hours, leading to improved customer satisfaction and increased revenue. Read more about Square Handheld's advanced features here, which include: 'Square Handheld is powerful, profitable, and predictable. It's sleek and slim, and it gives us 10x the power in the palms of our hands (and our pockets) and helps us to elevate our hospitality in the front of house,' said Chad Sykora, CEO at Krootz Brewing Company in Gainesville, TX. 'It's easy to be hands-free as staff members round corners. Now, they can focus on keeping food steady. Each of our bartenders and servers have been fighting over getting their hands on one!' The newly redesigned, unified Square Point of Sale app lets restaurants get started even faster with Square and allows for greater flexibility selling across different revenue streams. It doesn't matter if a seller is a full-service restaurant, quick-service restaurant, bar or brewery, catering service, or any combination — there are now different, purpose-built modes to meet the specific complex needs of each of these workflows in one single app. This new, unified app encourages business growth, too, with restaurants able to easily add entirely new modes — say, retail — to expand their sales capabilities. And with this shift to a single, consolidated app, Square product velocity is accelerating, meaning food and beverage sellers can expect even more restaurant-specific tools they need to run their business, faster. Out of the box, Square Handheld runs the new Square Point of Sale, which you can read more about here. 'Square has gone big in restaurants, and it shows, with our product velocity accelerating to best meet the needs of new and existing sellers,' said Ming-Tai Huh, Head of Food and Beverage at Square. 'Square is the technology backbone for restaurants across the world, from neighborhood cafés to national chains — and with this latest release, we're giving single unit and multi-unit restaurants the tools they need to operate efficiently and to thrive in today's dynamic marketplace.' Square is also introducing a number of additional new features for restaurants to streamline service and grow revenue — without sacrificing hospitality: Square is also expanding its comprehensive partner ecosystem to allow sellers the flexibility and modularity to choose the right technology to power their businesses: Try Square Handheld and experience Square's new F&B platform in person. Visit Square at the National Restaurant Association show (Booth #5845) in Chicago from May 17-20, 2025, and don't miss the fireside chat between Ming-Tai Huh and Nick Stone (Chairman, Bluestone Lane) on May 17 at 3:30pm CT at the Innovation Theater. About Square Square makes commerce and financial services easy and accessible with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions. Square offers purpose-built software to run complex restaurant, retail, and professional services operations, versatile e-commerce tools, embedded financial services and banking products, buy now, pay later functionality through Afterpay, staff management and payroll capabilities, and much more – all of which work together to save sellers time and effort. Millions of sellers across the globe trust Square to power their business and help them thrive in the economy. 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Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Introducing the Next-Generation Square Point of Sale App – A Single, Unified App to Power Commerce and Growth for Every Seller
Square's market-leading point of sale brings together its deep payments and business operations capabilities for restaurants, retail, services, and more into one consolidated app Now, every seller has a single point of sale app that is easily personalized for all the ways they run their business today, and to support their growth and evolution into the future SAN FRANCISCO, April 24, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Square announced the new Square Point of Sale app – its next-generation software that brings Square's deep vertical-specific commerce and payments functionality into a single, unified app that sellers can personalize to meet the complex needs of their business today, while supporting their business growth and evolution into the future. Sixteen years ago, Square launched its very first mobile card reader and point of sale app to enable any seller to accept digital payments – beginning a journey to empower businesses to thrive in the economy. Through the years, Square partnered with sellers and offered industry-specific software products – Square for Restaurants, Square for Retail, Square Appointments, and Square Invoices – to not only sell from anywhere, but eliminate the many points of friction that come with managing and expanding a business – from creating complex restaurant menus to managing inventory to offering service waitlists, and much more. Today, the business world has changed, and Square's sellers continue to evolve. More than four million sellers now trust Square to run every aspect of their business, enabling them to grow while keeping focus on their craft. They're diversifying their business to reach new customers, create new revenue streams, and connect to their communities in entirely new ways. Breweries are becoming full service restaurants and retailers. Spas are selling home goods and subscription services. With the new Square Point of Sale, all of Square's power and innovation is now available in one single app – making it easier for sellers to discover the tools that are right for their business and expand their features as they grow. From our testing, we found that feature discovery and usage among new sellers grew nearly 80% from the rate on the previous Square POS experience. "We opened two weeks before the pandemic began in 2020, and we've been pivoting and expanding ever since. We started as a plant retailer, expanded into home goods, then added the cafe and the barbershop, and now also host workshops and events," said Lorena Cortez, founder and co-owner of The Mellow, a mercantile, cafe, barbershop, and events space with locations in San Francisco's Mission, Haight, and Union Square districts. "The new Square Point of Sale makes it easy to manage it all, flow between operations, and deliver a great experience. We have a lot of inventory to manage, and Square makes it easy so our team can receive shipment and expedite our ability to get product on the floor. When it comes to selling, whether a customer is getting a beverage or a haircut or a plant, using Square tools lets us focus on the conversation and building a connection." The power and ease of Square Point of Sale resides in its modes – easy-to-understand feature sets, purpose-built for each industry, to give sellers a personalized POS experience that instantly sets them up with the right tools for their business. Sellers can easily add modes to expand their sales capabilities with no limitations on growth, while Square can now ship new features to more sellers at a faster rate. There are currently seven modes available on Square's platform, offering unique technology and feature needs even within verticals: Three Food & Beverage modes let sellers choose highly tailored solutions for their needs: Quick Service mode: Accelerates counter-service operations through intuitive modifier workflows and multi-channel menu management, ensuring swift and accurate order fulfillment at high-volume establishments. Full Service mode: Streamlines complex dining operations with intelligent check management, sophisticated coursing capabilities, and customizable floor plans. Bar mode: Combines smart pre-authorization features with conversational modifier inputs to keep drinks flowing and tabs properly managed throughout busy nights. Retail mode: Handles complex inventory management, varied pricing structures, and multi-location operations to power modern retail businesses. Bookings mode: Seamlessly integrates scheduling, client management, and payment processing into one intuitive system for beauty and wellness businesses. Services mode: Simplifies invoice management, estimates, and on-the-go payments for businesses that operate beyond traditional storefronts, like catering and home repair. Standard mode: Square's classic point-of-sale experience offers ultimate flexibility through its personalizable interface and versatile features. "Square Point of Sale is an all-in-one product that recognizes sellers' needs are not one-size-fits-all," said Willem Ave, Head of Product for Square. "Businesses today have to be resilient, and able to adapt when new challenges – and opportunities – present themselves. With our new app, sellers can do just that – they don't have to choose between breadth or depth; they can have both with Square. We're also able to build innovative new features for sellers of all types and sizes even faster, with less overhead than required for maintaining many separate tools. We can deliver specialized software experiences for unique use cases and complex industries, while maintaining the ease-of-use sellers, their employees, and their customers expect from Square. Running a business is complex, and we make it streamlined and simple, so sellers can spend more time focused on their craft, customers, and communities." Already, Square is showing how seamlessly it can add additional features and value to its Point of Sale app; it will introduce new platform enhancements and modes features in the inaugural Square Releases on May 13. About Square Square makes commerce and financial services easy and accessible with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions. Square offers purpose-built software to run complex restaurant, retail, and professional services operations, versatile e-commerce tools, embedded financial services and banking products, buy now, pay later functionality through Afterpay, staff management and payroll capabilities, and much more – all of which work together to save sellers time and effort. Millions of sellers across the globe trust Square to power their business and help them thrive in the economy. For more information, visit View source version on Contacts press@ Sign in to access your portfolio
