{"id":276837,"date":"2018-10-11T12:03:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T10:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=276837"},"modified":"2018-10-11T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T10:03:44","slug":"samsung-pay-now-at-mugg-bean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/276837\/samsung-pay-now-at-mugg-bean\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Pay now at Mugg &#038; Bean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mugg &amp; Bean (M&amp;B) on Thursday announced the launch of Samsung Pay as a payment option in their sit down, and on-the-go restaurants, nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>M&amp;B customers that are also users of the recently unveiled Samsung Pay application, may now pay their bill using a compatible Samsung Galaxy device with an enrolled card from a supporting bank, the coffee-themed chain said.<\/p>\n<p>The mobile payment service\u00a0 can be downloaded, free from the Google Play Store, is Samsung\u2019s solution to enable their users to process payments &#8211; almost anywhere, using both MST and NFC technology.<\/p>\n<p>Jacquie Schultz, marketing executive for Mugg &amp; Bean, said: \u201cwe are constantly looking for ways in which we can enrich the customer\u2019s experience with the Mugg &amp; Bean brand \u2013 whether this be through our delicious food, generous portion sizes, convenient and expansive national footprint or simpler, effective payment options.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Samsung Pay works almost anywhere you can swipe, insert or tap a card, so as the first country in Africa to implement this, we are hugely excited about how it\u2019s going to transform our customers\u2019 lives,&#8221; said Justin Hume, director of Integrated Mobility of Samsung South Africa.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/275873\/what-is-samsung-pay-and-how-does-it-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What is Samsung Pay and how does it work?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mugg &#038; Bean on Thursday announced the launch of Samsung Pay as a payment option in their sit down, and on-the-go restaurants, nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26,5808,13389],"class_list":["post-276837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-mugg-bean","tag-samsung-pay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276849,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276837\/revisions\/276849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}