Case Study: Full-Service Restaurant Chain achieves faster transactions, lower costs & zero-touch deployments with Cradlepoint networking solutions

Restaurant Chain Lowers Costs, Increases Bandwidth & Improves Speed to Deployment

Full-Service Restaurant Chain, a regional icon with more than 1,700 locations, faced slow dial-up credit card transactions (as high as ~15 seconds), reliance on a single connectivity method, and the high cost or disruption of wired Internet installations. Seeking a compact, low-cost mobile-broadband option that was easy to deploy across geographically diverse sites, the chain evaluated vendors and selected Cradlepoint—deploying the Cradlepoint COR IBR650 3G/4G LTE routers and later adopting Cradlepoint Enterprise Cloud Manager for centralized management.

Cradlepoint’s solution connected 650+ restaurants quickly via cellular broadband, cutting typical transaction times from about 15 seconds to roughly 5–6 seconds, eliminating extra phone lines, and lowering monthly carrier costs. Using Cradlepoint Enterprise Cloud Manager transformed provisioning (from 9–12 minutes per router to preconfiguring hundreds at once in about 15 minutes), simplified PCI auditing, and enabled many locations to rely on Cradlepoint as primary Internet connectivity—delivering measurable time, cost, and operational benefits.