easyFood, a new food delivery service which is part of the group that owns easyJet and easyHotel, has announced a new partnership with Tyl by NatWest.

NatWest’s payment arm, launched in 2019, offers a number of payments solutions to UK SMEs.

With one terminal the restaurants and takeaways that use Tyl by NatWest will be able to integrate easyFood food ordering and delivery into their business to receive orders and collect payments.

The bank said the partnership is one of the first to use card payment terminals for online food ordering, a technology developed and evolved by easyFood since its first device in 2006.

Once a restaurant has downloaded the easyFood app to their Tyl by NatWest terminal they can receive orders from customers. Restaurants can also use the Tyl by NatWest terminal to process orders and take payments by phone and face-to-face.

The partnership will roll out initially in Birmingham and the West Midlands, with more than 600 restaurants and takeaway businesses participating. easyFood plans to roll out the service across the UK in the future.

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of easyGroup and the easy family of brands said that the move will give restaurants an alternative to what he described as "greedy ordering platforms" that charge "sky-high" commission fees.

"Partnering with NatWest’s payment platforms means easyFood can offer our restaurant partners the UK’s most efficient payments system alongside its ground-breaking ordering platform with some of the most competitive rates available," continued Haji-Ioannou.

Takeaways and restaurants will get a £100 merchant credit bonus if they sign up with Tyl by NatWest and use the easyFood app to manage orders and deliveries.

“The partnership between easyFood and Tyl by NatWest will integrate an advanced online food ordering system directly into the existing payment infrastructure used by a wide range of merchants, such as restaurants, takeaways, grocery stores, hotels, and bars," said James Holian, head of business banking, NatWest. "This integration will simplify operations, enhance efficiency, and support sustainability efforts by eliminating the need for additional devices and their associated energy consumption.”

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