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WiFi for quick-service restaurants

Millions of visits a year. Know who is behind them.

Guest WiFi that turns a five-minute visit into a consented guest record, puts your app one tap away and sends both to the CRM and loyalty platform you already run. Kiosks, EPOS and your crew stay on their own networks. One platform across every restaurant, on the access points you already own.

  • One-tap sign-in built for short visits
  • App downloads from every WiFi sign-in
  • xPSK for kiosks, EPOS and kitchen screens
  • Crew sign-in with Entra ID, Okta or Google
Guests queuing and collecting orders at a busy quick-service restaurant counter while one checks a phone
Signed in with OneClickOpted in to offers, profile sent to Braze
Get the appDownload offer shown in the guest's language
Trusted by quick-service and fast-casual brands includingMcDonald's BelgiumMcDonald's AustraliaPanosCafé Juan ValdezWestmorland
The gap

Your restaurants see more people than most websites. Almost none of them leave a name.

A quick-service estate serves millions of guests a year, but only the ones who order in the app are known to you. Everyone at the counter, the kiosk or the table pays and leaves anonymously, and the WiFi they connect to is often the hardest part of the restaurant for IT to support. That gap shows up in four places.

A typical QSR estate today

  • Free WiFi that costs money to run and returns nothing to marketing
  • An app the brand depends on, promoted on a poster nobody reads
  • Kiosks, EPOS and kitchen screens sharing a network with guest phones
  • Engineers sent out to restaurants to fix WiFi problems

With Purple

  • A one-tap branded sign-in that sends consented guest data to your CRM
  • An app download offer on the screen every guest is already holding
  • Every device on its own key and VLAN, away from guests
  • Cloud-managed across the estate, so problems are fixed remotely, not on site
One platform, four networks

Every guest, every device and every crew member, each on the right network

Guests in the queue, app members in the car park, the kiosks that take the order and the crew who make it. Four networks that usually mean four suppliers, run from one dashboard across the estate.

Guests

Make a five-minute visit count

Quick-service guests do not stay long enough to fill in a form, so the sign-in has to take one tap. Purple gives them a branded page in your look, with OneClick and social login, consent captured in the same step and rules that change the message by restaurant, language or campaign. McDonald's Belgium runs it across 80 restaurants and has collected 2.5 million unique visitor records from 8 million visits.

  • OneClick, email and social sign-in with UK GDPR consent and a full audit trail
  • Language-specific splash pages and promotions by restaurant, set with LogicFlow rules
  • Guest data sent to Braze, HubSpot, Airship, Iterable and Bloomreach through 400+ data connectors
  • Visits, repeat visits and dwell time for every restaurant, compared across the estate
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A young guest signing in to restaurant WiFi on a phone while waiting for an order at the counterGuest data
App and loyalty

Supercharge your mobile app from the moment of physical visit

Your app is where the best guests order, collect points and come back. The WiFi sign-in reaches the guests who have not downloaded it yet, at the moment they are standing in your restaurant with a phone in their hand. Promote the download on the splash page, then connect WiFi visits to your loyalty data so marketing can see who visits, where and how often.

  • McDonald's Belgium saw a sharp increase in app downloads after adding app campaigns to its splash pages
  • McDonald's Australia connected Purple to its MyMacca's loyalty scheme through a custom two-way API and grew loyalty sign-ups
  • Panos put its iOS and Android app in front of guests 24,262 times in 12 months from the WiFi sign-in
  • Reach lapsed app members with a reason to return, through the marketing platform you already use
Explore first-party guest data
A guest downloading a restaurant brand's app on a phone at a table with a tray of foodApp growth
Kiosks and EPOS

Keep the kiosks and tills away from the queue

Self-order kiosks, EPOS terminals, kitchen display screens, digital menu boards and order-ready screens cannot sign in with a username and password. On one shared network they also sit next to every guest phone in the restaurant. xPSK gives each device its own key and its own VLAN, so a leaked key affects one device, not the whole restaurant.

  • Guest traffic kept apart from payment kit, the network segmentation PCI DSS scoping relies on
  • Revoke a single key without re-keying every device on site
  • Works under your vendor's name: iPSK on Cisco, DPSK on Ruckus, MPSK on HPE Aruba and Juniper Mist, PPSK on Extreme and UniFi
  • No per-device licence and no cap on devices per key
Explore xPSK
A row of self-order kiosks and a kitchen display screen in a quick-service restaurantxPSK
Crew

Staff WiFi that keeps up with crew turnover

Quick-service teams change constantly, and a shared staff password outlives every one of them. Purple lets managers and crew connect with the account they already use, synced from Microsoft Entra ID, Okta or Google Workspace over SCIM, so access starts and ends with employment. It runs on cloud RADIUS, so there is nothing to install in the restaurant.

  • Leavers are revoked automatically when their account is disabled
  • Personal phones onboarded in about 60 seconds with the Purple app
  • Restaurant managers, crew and visiting engineers on separate VLANs with their own rules
  • Cloud RADIUS with a 99.9% uptime SLA and no on-premise server

After moving to Purple, McDonald's Belgium cut WiFi-related on-site visits from IT engineers by 90%.

Explore staff WiFi
A shift manager briefing crew in uniform behind the counter before the lunch rushStaff WiFi
Beyond the free WiFi sticker

WiFi as most quick-service estates run it, and WiFi with Purple

Most QSR WiFi is a cost line that IT supports and marketing never sees. Here is what changes.

What you need
Typical QSR WiFi
With Purple
Guest data
Only the guests who order in the app
Consented guest records from everyone who signs in
App growth
Posters and tray liners
An app download offer at every WiFi sign-in
Languages and local offers
One message for every restaurant
Splash pages and promotions set by restaurant and language
Kiosks and EPOS
Devices and guest phones on one shared network
A private key and VLAN for each device
Support
Engineers sent to site to fix WiFi
Cloud-managed, with 90% fewer on-site IT visits at McDonald's Belgium
Hardware
Often tied to one vendor's sign-in page
Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi and more
A QSR operations lead and a marketing manager reviewing a guest dashboard in a quiet restaurant before opening
Proof from quick-service brands

Results from quick-service restaurants on Purple

McDonald's Belgium uses Purple across 80 restaurants to build guest data, grow its app and even recruit its next crew members from the WiFi sign-in. These are results it has measured.

2.5m
unique visitor records from 8 million visits at McDonald's Belgium
90%
fewer WiFi-related on-site IT visits at McDonald's Belgium
296,000
visits to the McDonald's Belgium jobs site from WiFi in 41 days
24,262
app download promotions shown to Panos guests in 12 months

Figures from Purple customer results: McDonald's Belgium and Panos.

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How it works

Live across the estate without new hardware

  1. 1

    Design your sign-in

    Build branded splash pages, app offers and consent once, with rules for each restaurant, region and language.

  2. 2

    Point your access points at Purple

    We configure the guest, kiosk and EPOS, and crew networks on the access points already in your restaurants.

  3. 3

    Roll out restaurant by restaurant

    Start with a pilot group, connect your CRM and loyalty platform, then switch on the rest of the estate.

Pricing

See the price before you book a demo

Compare plans, what each one includes and the add-ons on one page. You do not need a sales call to see the numbers.

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See your estate on one WiFi platform

Tell us about your restaurants, your app and your marketing stack, and we will show you how guest data, app growth, devices and crew access would work on your hardware.

  • Works with Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi, Cambium, Extreme and Fortinet
  • Guest data into Braze, HubSpot, Airship, Iterable and Bloomreach through 400+ data connectors
  • ISO 27001 certified, UK GDPR and CCPA compliant, zero data breaches since 2012

Book a QSR demo

A 30-minute call with someone who knows multi-site restaurant WiFi.

Quick-service restaurant WiFi questions, answered

What marketing, digital and IT teams at QSR brands ask us most

Will guests actually sign in during a short visit?

Yes, if the sign-in takes one tap. Purple offers OneClick and social login with consent in the same step. McDonald's Belgium collected 2.5 million unique visitor records from 8 million visits across 80 restaurants.

Can the WiFi help grow our app?

Yes. You can promote your iOS and Android app on the splash page every guest sees. McDonald's Belgium saw a sharp increase in app downloads, and McDonald's Australia connected Purple to its MyMacca's loyalty scheme through a two-way API.

How do you keep guests away from kiosks and payment terminals?

Guests sign in to their own network, and each kiosk, EPOS terminal and kitchen screen gets its own key and VLAN through xPSK. That keeps guest traffic apart from payment kit, the network segmentation PCI DSS scoping relies on.

Can we run different messages in different restaurants and languages?

Yes. LogicFlow rules change the splash page and promotion by restaurant, region or language. McDonald's Belgium uses it for language-specific promotions and app download campaigns.

Do we need to replace our access points?

No. Purple runs on the access points already in your restaurants, including Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi, Cambium, Extreme and Fortinet. There is no on-premise server to install.

How do we manage WiFi across hundreds of restaurants?

From one cloud dashboard. Splash pages, rules and networks are set centrally and applied by restaurant or region, so most issues are fixed remotely. McDonald's Belgium cut WiFi-related on-site IT visits by 90%.

Is the guest data GDPR compliant?

Yes. Every sign-in records consent with a full audit trail. Purple is ISO 27001 certified, UK GDPR and CCPA compliant, and has had zero data breaches since 2012.

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