ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 22, 2026--
Qu, the intelligent commerce platform for enterprise QSR and fast-casual restaurant brands, today announced Qu Pay, an embedded, end-to-end payments solution. A first-of-its-kind innovation, Qu Pay combines four systems: payment processing, guest identity, order intelligence, and capital access into a single layer of the unified platform.
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Until now, payments lived outside the core restaurant operating system—treated as a cost center, not an intelligence hub. Qu Pay ends that separation. Every transaction becomes data brands can use to better understand and serve their guests. Qu Pay serves enterprise brands across point-of-sale, kiosks, drive-thru, web, and mobile channels. The platform is already live with multiple brands, including Roy Rogers.
"I've spent my career watching operators treat payments as a necessary evil instead of a value-added capability," said Rachid Hassan, Vice President of Payments at Qu. "We built Qu Pay because operators shouldn't have to choose between running their business and understanding it. Now every transaction feeds both."
Every Transaction Unlocks Guest Intelligence
With legacy processors, up to 65% of transactions leave no usable guest identity behind. Qu Pay connects enhanced payment data with order, guest, location, and channel information, creating a more complete view of each transaction. Brands can finally recognize the guests they've been serving blind.
Capital Access, Built Into the Platform
Qu Pay gives operators direct access to capital and cash flow tools informed by their own transaction data, with no separate bank relationship required. Franchisees can access on-demand settlements rather than waiting for a standard payout schedule and receive capital offers based on their processing history instead of a traditional credit application. Qu Pay also uses intelligent transaction routing to lower processing costs. Ultimately, Qu Pay transforms payments from a cost center into a source of working capital that operators can put back into the business.
One Unified Payments Platform for Rapid Onboarding
Qu Pay brings orders and payments together on one platform, creating a clear path for implementation, support, reporting, and reconciliation. Merchants can go live in days instead of weeks, reducing onboarding timelines by up to 75%—replacing spreadsheets and email chains with connected workflows. Customers also benefit from faster issue resolution with streamlined support services.
Designed With Operators, for Operators
Roy Rogers, the iconic American quick-service brand, was among the first customers to put Qu Pay into practice. "We wanted payments to operate as part of the broader restaurant platform, not as a disconnected system managed separately from the business," said John Giffin, Senior Marketing Manager at Roy Rogers. "Qu Pay simplifies operations, improves visibility into payment activity, and creates a more consistent experience for our operators, which means a better visit for our guests."
"We set out to build a unified commerce platform for restaurants, not just a better point of sale, but an intelligent system that understands and enhances the business," said Amir Hudda, Qu's CEO. "Qu Pay completes that vision. Payments are no longer the blind spot; they're one of the smartest parts of the platform."
Availability
Qu Pay is available now to Qu customers and is rolling out across new and existing brands throughout 2026. Enterprise QSR and fast-casual brands interested in Qu Pay can learn more at qubeyond.com.
About Qu
Qu is the intelligent commerce platform purpose-built for enterprise QSR and fast-casual restaurant brands. By unifying ordering, payments, guest data, and operations into a single platform, Qu helps brands simplify complexity, move faster, and turn every transaction into actionable intelligence. Learn more at qubeyond.com.
Qu Reinvents Restaurant Payments and Guest Intelligence with Launch of Qu Pay
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has warned Iran that the U.S. will destroy one bridge or power plant each time Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
The warning came after the U.S. carried out another wave of strikes on Iran, where air defenses opened fire over the capital, Tehran. Iran launched a missile attack on a Jordanian city on Israel’s doorstep, and alerts were issued in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
In his warning on social media, the president returned to earlier threats to target civilian infrastructure in retaliation for Iranian attacks.
“From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT,” Trump wrote on social media.
The 11th night of American airstrikes on Iran came as diplomatic efforts have shown little public sign of progress. Officials on both sides have dug in on their dispute over the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway for global energy that remains largely closed because of Iranian attacks.
Iran has avoided striking Israel since hostilities resumed last month, apparently hoping to keep it from reentering the war. But the missile and drone attack on Jordan’s city of Aqaba, within sight of Israel’s Eilat, raised concerns over a further widening of the conflict after an agreement to halt hostilities collapsed.
The closure of the strait, through which a fifth of the world’s traded oil and gas passed during peacetime, has jolted the world economy with effects far beyond the Middle East. A new threat by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen to target Saudi shipping in the Red Sea puts another trade chokepoint at risk.
Benchmark Brent crude oil rose to around $94 a barrel in trading, and gasoline prices are once again climbing ahead of U.S. midterm elections this fall.
Jordan’s military said it intercepted four Iranian missiles over Aqaba, while two others fell in “uninhabited areas.” Plumes of smoke could be seen overhead in videos filmed by people in the nearby Israeli city of Eilat. Jordan said it also intercepted four Iranian drones.
Another missile alert sounded in Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia warned residents of the Persian Gulf city of Dammam to seek shelter. Saudi authorities later said the danger had passed, without elaborating.
The U.S. military said earlier Wednesday that it had completed an 11th night of strikes on Iran, with targets including aircraft hangars and drone storage sites.
Iran's state-run IRNA news agency reported explosions across several provinces. Iran's Health Ministry says U.S. strikes over the past 11 days have killed 53 people, including six women and three children, and wounded nearly 600 people.
Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard insisted its retaliatory attacks would continue.
Before the latest strikes, Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni visited Pakistan, a key mediator in the conflict, seeking to revive diplomacy. But it was unclear what new arrangement might be reached to end the war, which lately has become a battle for control over the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran's Interior Ministry spokesman Ali Zeinivand said “diplomacy isn’t called off” and that messages were still being exchanged, without elaborating, according to IRNA.
At a regional summit in the Philippines, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio denounced Iran’s actions in the strait.
“If we create a precedent in the Middle East where a nation state can decide that they are going to control an international waterway, charge a toll and if you don’t pay them, blow up your ships, we have created a very dangerous precedent which will repeat itself in other parts of the world, including in this region,” he said.
In response to Iran’s attacks, the U.S. re-imposed a blockade on Iranian ports.
Speaking from the Oval Office on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump gave a dim view on possible talks, saying the U.S. had “no interest in meeting.”
He signaled that U.S. forces could soon target an under-construction Iranian nuclear site buried deep under a mountain.
The site, known as Pickaxe Mountain, lies on the south side of Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment site, which was bombed by the U.S. during the 12-day war between Iran and Israel in 2025. But Pickaxe Mountain has remained untouched as Iran continues to dig at the site.
Iran has always insisted its nuclear program is peaceful, while resuming the enrichment of uranium to near weapons-grade levels since Trump scrapped a 2015 nuclear deal during his first term. The U.S. and others believe Iran had a nuclear weapons program until 2003 and may reconstitute it in the future.
Binkley reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Bassem Mroue in Beirut, and Michelle L. Price and Jim Gomez in Manila, Philippines, contributed to this report.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a press conference on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines Wednesday, July 22, 2026. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool Photo via AP)
