Beda Intlekofer: THE expert for Swiss communal catering
We are pleased to introduce you to Beda Intlekofer, who has taken on the position of Area Manager Switzerland since September 2023. With his extensive experience and deep understanding of communal catering, he is the ideal choice to optimally support our customers on the Swiss market.
INTERNORGA 2024: Successful trade fair with partner Delegate
The INTERNORGA in Hamburg, the leading trade fair for the out-of-home market with more than 1,000 international exhibitors, had the motto “Everyone together” this year. From March 8th to 12th, 2024, around 80,000 visitors found out about current industry trends at the Contress Center Hamburg.
Digital innovations for company restaurants at one of the leading healthcare companies
The global player, one of the world's largest producers of medicines and diagnostics, was looking for innovative solutions for its company restaurants at two German locations. Daily catering for around 16,000 employees needed to be made even more efficient and attractive. The central challenge was to create innovation and digital added value for employees, while existing components such as food vending machines should be optimally reused for sustainability reasons and seamlessly integrated into the new overall system.
ventopay at INTERNORGA 2024. Experience digital innovations.
At INTERNORGA 2024, ventopay will impressively demonstrate its innovation leadership with a firework of innovations. In this way, the software company provides answers to the industry's pressing questions: sustainability and health promotion, increasing staff shortages and the required flexibility. Whether fully automated accounting with mocca.invoice+ or the CO2 footprint in the real-time dashboard - the innovations presented show the enormous potential of digitalization for communal catering.
ventopay acquires a stake in Delegate
ventopay Holding GmbH has secured a strategic minority stake in the Delegate Group. The strategic alliance between the two innovation leaders deepens the long-standing partnership and promises significant benefits for customers and partners in the community catering industry.
Invitation to INTERNORGA 2024
New products, innovative features and the overall digital platform mocca® – this is what visitors to INTERNORGA 2024 can look forward to. Experience digital innovations from ventopay for communal catering from 8th to 12th March in Hamburg. We look forward to your visit in the hall for “Digital Applications” at stand A2.337.
5 solutions for sustainability & reduction of food waste
Would you like to take a pioneering role in the areas of sustainability, health and digitalization? With the products from the mocca® overall platform you are making the perfect choice.
ventopay receives ISO 27001 certification for information security
ventopay, leading platform for digitalization and innovation in public catering, has successfully completed ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification. ISO 27001 is an internationally recognized and standardized standard for information security. By implementing these high security standards, ventopay is once again underlining its pioneering role in the industry.
ventopay strengthens presence in Switzerland with new Zurich location
ventopay, the innovation leader for communal catering, is continuing its sustainable growth in the DACH region and is opening a new location in Switzerland. The new Zurich location will significantly drive forward company growth in Switzerland. The digitalization specialist was able to recruit industry expert Beda Intlekofer as area manager.
ventopay and Delegate inspire with a joint customer event
Under the motto “Together. Digital. Better.” Delegate and ventopay successfully organized their first joint customer event. The deliberately chosen, smaller setting was fully booked to the last place. More than 100 participants experienced an inspiring day full of innovations.
ventopay and Delegate are revolutionizing communal catering
ventopay and Delegate, long-standing industry leaders with over 50 years of industry experience, continue to rely on a successful partnership. Three groundbreaking innovations for community catering were presented at the first joint customer event.
7 advantages of optical food recognition
We would like to introduce you to the impressive advantages of optical food recognition. The AI-supported solution automatically records menus and drinks via camera and records them in the cash register system. Cashless payment – optionally with a smartphone – significantly speeds up the entire checkout process. The innovative technology, based on artificial intelligence, offers many advantages for community catering.
Development workshop with partner company Delegate
We have been working closely together with Delegate in a strategic partnership for many years. Not only do we implement many joint customer projects, we also connect our development departments with each other again and again in order to be able to offer our customers even better and closely integrated solutions.
ventopay honored with “Pegasus” award as an innovation emperor
Outstanding success for the Upper Austrian company ventopay: At the presentation of the business prize "Pegasus", the software company was awarded silver in the category "Innovation Emperor". In addition to the best ideas for products and services, the ecological and sustainable impact of the innovations was also assessed.
Concentrated know-how for company catering
An exciting double event with topics related to company catering, at which ventopay was a speaker and exhibitor, took place in Munich last week. May 3, 2023 was all about the intensive seminar "Digitalization in gastronomy and kitchen". In this seminar, the participants learned everything about the current digital trends and optimization options with regard to staff shortages in communal catering. The renowned annual conference "Construction and operation of commercial kitchens and company catering" then took place from May 4th to 5th, 2023.
Ute Panzer is new Manager of Market & Growth at ventopay
On April 11, Ute Panzer took over the position of Market & Growth Manager at ventopay, based in Hagenberg. The digitization specialist for community catering is taking the ongoing growth trend into account with the new business area.
Leading platform for digitization at INTERNORGA
The motto of this year's INTERNORGA in Hamburg, the leading trade fair for the out-of-home market with over 1,100 international exhibitors, was "All together". At its own stand in the hall for "Digital applications", ventopay presented mocca®, the leading platform for digitization and innovation in communal catering and system catering.
ventopay as host of the AGÖ kitchen manager conference
The AGÖ – Working Group of Austrian Canteen Kitchens – is a registered association that takes care of the targeted further training of its members. The first kitchen manager conference of the year led the AGÖ middle section to ventopay. Around 20 participants came to our headquarters in the Softwarepark Hagenberg to find out more about ventopay and the latest digital innovations from the mocca® product range.
Fast and easy payment in the Raiffeisen Arena
ventopay supplied the cashless payment system for the LASK Raiffeisen Arena, which consists of 68 cash registers and four receipt reprint stations that accept all common debit and credit cards as well as mobile payment options. The system offers fans and operators many advantages, including high hygiene, the best possible transparency and an improved fan experience.
Experience ventopay at INTERNORGA 2023
Of course we will also be there again at the largest and most important industry meeting of the year. Experience ventopay, the innovation and technology leader for digitization in communal catering, live at INTERNORGA 2023!
Ordering system & web shop mocca.order shines in new splendor
In recent months, the popular and widely used ordering system mocca.order has been completely revised visually and is now available in new, even more attractive layouts. The ordering system mocca.order not only shines in a complete redesign, but also boasts practical, new features for your guests.
ventopay founds fourth location in Vienna
A fourth ventopay branch was founded in November 2022. A small office has been set up in the IZD Tower – an office building of Donau City in Vienna – in which two workstations are initially available. Depending on requirements, the Vienna location can be flexibly expanded at any time by renting additional offices.
Digital innovation – introduction of the ventopay system at Lufthansa
After a project duration of only 8 months, the first of 10 nationwide companies of the Lufthansa Group Taste and More was opened, which is equipped with the innovative payment and customer enthusiasm system from ventopay gmbh. After completion of the roll-out, a total of more than 100,000 Lufthansa employees will benefit from the pioneering products of the innovation forge from the Softwarepark Hagenberg.
ventopay presented digital innovations
Micro and smart market solutions, optical food recognition and an app as a central hub for communication and customer enthusiasm: These were just some of the many topics of our digital innovation event 2022, which was held online again this year.
Best Business Award goes to ventopay
This year's winners of the Best Business Awards were honored in a total of three categories. In the "Companies with 31 to 100 employees" category, ventopay was delighted to receive the venerable Bronze Best Business Award.
Cashless payment system now also at Volkswagen
ventopay, the specialist in the field of cashless cash register, payment and billing systems in Hagenberg, was able to win Volkswagen AG Germany as its next major customer. From autumn 2021, six VW plants with 110,000 employees switched to mocca®, an overall system developed by ventopay, in several phases.
mocca.loyalty app – digital revolution in community catering
With Newsadoo, an intelligent news system was integrated into the mocca.loyalty app for the customer, which enables the more than 120,000 employees to be fed with relevant news content fully automatically. Using artificial intelligence, the relevant posts are identified and played out from the broad content pool of both external and internal media and also from social media channels. Fully automatic, digital specialist or topic newspapers or a company newspaper are created, which can be seamlessly integrated into the mocca.loyalty app.
Newcomers for the mocca® team
In the last few weeks, ventopay welcomed two newcomers to the "Team mocca®": Verena Anzinger (support telephone operator) and Cedric Hanske (area sales manager - region north).
Flexible layouts for digital signage
The mocca.digitalsignage software helps you digitally provide your guests with valuable information such as the transparent display of the current menu plan. Visualize your menu details on every monitor in the restaurant, including images, individual menu components (side dishes), ingredients, allergens, a traffic light system for conscious nutrition and prices. Additional textual information as well as contact persons and opening hours can also be displayed.
Hybrid mode for automatic food recognition at Caseli
Caseli GmbH runs the company restaurants of voestalpine AG in Linz and has been a satisfied customer of ventopay for many years. Since the redesign of a dining room on the premises, a second cash register with optical food recognition is now also in use.
ventopay showed trends in community catering
From 4th to 5th July 2022, the Management Forum Starnberg organized this year's annual conference "Construction and operation of canteen kitchens and modern company catering" in the Design Offices Munich Macherei.
New building opening of COUNT IT and ventopay
The two Softwarepark companies COUNT IT and ventopay opened the doors to their modern new building. The festivities started with an open day and culminated in a lavish party for invited guests that lasted until the early hours of the morning.
Standard for cash registers receives new version DSFinV-K 2.3
A new version of the "digital interface of the financial administration for the cash register system" - DSFinV-K for short - was recently published. Below we summarize the most important changes to the standard for cash registers in the latest version DSFinV-K 2.3.
INTERNORGA 2022: A complete success for ventopay
"Back to the future!" was the motto of this year's INTERNORGA in Hamburg, the leading trade fair for the out-of-home market with more than 1,300 international exhibitors. On the five days of the fair from April 30th to May 4th, 2022, ventopay presented the innovative cash register and payment system mocca® at its own stand in the hall for "Digital Applications" in the Congress Center Hamburg.
The most outstanding canteens in Germany rely on ventopay
The top canteens in Germany: This is exactly what a large article in the FOCUS issue 14/2022 is about. Together with the platform Food & Health e. V., the most outstanding gastronomy concepts of canteens were awarded, which strengthen the team spirit of the employees and invite them to creative breaks.
New options for easy credit top-ups
We take the latest payment options into account and regularly integrate new payment service providers into our products. In addition, it has recently also been possible to top up credit directly in the mocca.order ordering system.
mocca® is now available as SaaS
ventopay always follows the trend and tries to anticipate future developments in order to be able to offer innovative and high-performance products for communal catering. For this reason, we have decided to offer our mocca® products in an additional SaaS variant (Software as a Service) with immediate effect.
Obituary for Andreas Oos
Stunned and full of sadness, we bid farewell to our long-standing authorized signatory, colleague and friend, Andreas Oos, who unexpectedly left us on January 27, 2022 at the age of just 59.
Shift catering made easy by picking up at the vending machine
The Corona pandemic showed the importance of digitization in communal catering. The already existing trend towards cashless and contactless payment was strengthened again. ventopay is constantly developing the mocca® system and can therefore always make the new challenges easier with state-of-the-art technology. Our latest solution for handling shift catering at the vending machine sets new standards in the digitization and handling of gastronomic processes.
E-vouchers now accessible directly at the cash register
In the latest version of the mocca.touch software, the e-receipt is now also displayed directly at the checkout. After completing a purchase, a QR code is shown on the customer display, which the customer can scan with his smartphone. The link contained therein leads to a personal transaction overview in which all purchases and credit top-ups assigned to the payment card are clearly displayed.
New features for the mocca.order ordering system
The mocca.order ordering system comes up with two different new features, which have arisen from the innovative strength of ventopay: pre-order menu plans and guest mode.
Smartphone-exclusive payment at BSZ Biberach
In September 2021 - after just a few months of project lead time - ventopay put the mocca® cash register and payment system into operation at Kreis-Berufsschulzentrum Biberach. The special thing about this project: Payment is made exclusively with the smartphone, including vending machines.
Save packaging waste with mocca® and Vytal
Sustainability has always been a very important topic for ventopay. For this reason we have been part of the “United Against Waste” initiative for many years and try to reduce food waste to a minimum with the mocca.order ordering system, among other things. Our sustainability approach has also been expanded to include a partnership with the company Vytal.
ventopay broadens the team leader structure
Sustainable growth has top priority for ventopay. In order to be able to continue offering our products and services to our customers and partners in the usual quality, we have successively expanded the team leader structure.
Conference on the trends in company catering
From October 5th to 6th, 2021, the Austria Trend Parkhotel Schönbrunn in Vienna was all about company catering. On these two days, the fourth specialist conference “Construction and operation of large kitchens and company catering” took place in Austria.
The innovative large kitchen of tomorrow
Innovative and sustainable concepts for the commercial kitchen of tomorrow: This was the main focus of the event "Construction and operation of commercial kitchens and modern company catering". From June 29th to 30th, 2021, best practice examples for the digitization of existing processes and the introduction of new business models were presented at the specialist conference in the Design Offices Munich Atlas.
In the business portrait: “Canteen at the push of a button”
In the current "business" issue 2-2021, the Raiffeisenlandesbank magazine, there is a portrait of ventopay about the innovative solutions for employee catering that were brought onto the market within a very short time during the lockdown.
ventopay expands team mocca®
It is a major concern of ventopay to secure and sustainably expand regional jobs. This is also reflected in the construction of the innovative company building for modern working environments, which we have recently moved into. With the new workplace concepts, we want to underline our innovative character and inspire employees. Not surprising that, in view of this positive working atmosphere, ventopay has been able to look forward to four new members in the mocca® team in the past few months, so that our team has now grown to 40 people.
Digital hospitality receipts
Our mocca.loyalty app and mocca.loyalty website have received an update that makes it possible to digitize the entire hospitality workflow in companies. This significantly simplifies the time-consuming, manual and legally required archiving of receipts and increases the efficiency of the entire business.
Apple Pay now also for online payment
An additional payment option has been integrated into the latest version of the mocca.order ordering system. All pre-orders via mocca.order can now be paid for via iMac, iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch using Apple Pay.
New company headquarters in Hagenberg
Not even 1.5 years after the groundbreaking ceremony, we moved into the new company headquarters in the Softwarepark Hagenberg at the beginning of April. Together with COUNT IT, an innovative company building for modern working environments was built.
Home delivery with mocca.order2home
Together with our long-standing customer and partner Eurest, we have added a function to the mocca.order ordering system. This offers the caterer the possibility of additional sales potential in the form of new business models: The delivery of ordered meals directly to the customer's home.
NEW: time recording feature for mocca.touch
Version 5.2.2.0 of the mocca.touch POS software has a new function: working time recording for cashiers. The procedure is very simple.
New feature: push notifications
A new feature is available in the customer loyalty module of mocca.admin version 4.9.3.0: the sending of push notifications to your guests' smartphones via the mocca.loyalty app.
New ownership structure enables further growth and innovation
Employees, customers and partners are the focus at ventopay in order to implement innovations and high-quality, high-value solutions. The long-established management team of ventopay participates in the company and thus ensures a high level of stability for the expansion plans. Together with the previous managing director, Johannes Reichenberger, the management thus holds around 65% of the shares.
Tracking of the nutrient balance with mocca.health
The nutrient diary mocca.health is an expansion module for the mocca.loyalty app or the mocca.loyalty website, which can be integrated at any time if desired. It offers your guests the opportunity to track their nutrient uptake and analyze their personal eating and drinking behavior.
Mobile payment and customer loyalty for GO Gastro
GO Gaststättenbetriebs GmbH - GO Gastro for short - is a caterer and operator of company catering and restaurants with its headquarters in Linz. In 2019, the company commissioned a comprehensive cash register, payment and customer loyalty solution for nine locations, which contains all modules from the mocca® product range.
ventopay is building a new company headquarters
We are building an innovative company building for modern working environments together with COUNT IT in Softwarepark Hagenberg. On six floors and more than 2,400 square meters, the new building will create up to 180 new jobs, thus offering free space for the teams, development potential for our companies and added value for the region. The ground-breaking ceremony on October 29 marked the start of the joint construction project.
Efficient billing with a turnstile at LSG
Since the beginning of the year, the mocca® payment and cash register system has been in operation in the company restaurant of LSG Sky Chefs, a catering operation of the Lufthansa subsidiary LSG Group. The focus of the implemented project at Munich Airport is on fast payment and automated processes. These requirements were realized with a so-called sensor lock (as with the boarding of a flight at the gate) with an integrated self-service checkout.
Digitization of access & meal billing for the Armed Forces
Digital Austria focuses on innovative projects in the three areas of society, economy and administration. The Austrian Armed Forces realized together with ventopay the project "digitization of billing meal participants".
Digital ÖH bonus system for the ÖMBG
In 2016, ventopay won a public tender from ÖMBG (Österreiche Mensen Betriebsgesellschaft mbh). The successful cooperation has since been continued. Together, ventopay and the ÖMBG developed a concept for digitizing the ÖH bonus system.
Research project HoReMaL increases customer loyalty
Following the completion of the ADPAY (Advanced Data Analysis for Payment Systems) project, ventopay recently launched the next research project entitled HoReMaL. This acronym stands for High Customer Retention for Restaurant Systems through Nutrition Ontologies, Transfer and Privacy Preserving Machine Learning.
Olympiaworld Innsbruck received mocca® System
ventopay was commissioned by Olympiaworld Innsbruck to equip the Olympic Stadium, the Ice Arena, the Tivoli Stadium, the Sports Bar and the Bobcafe with the mocca® cash register and payment system.
mocca® POS system in Europe’s largest canteen
As OÖNachrichten and ORF.at reported, the largest canteen in Europe opened at the beginning of December in the office complex Quartier Sechs/Austria Campus in Vienna. The POS and payment system for the Austria Campus was installed by ventopay. Almost 10,000 employees and guests in the office building can now take advantage of the mocca® cashless payment system.
A positive lunch experience at Sonova thanks to mocca®
In the summer of 2018, together with the Swiss distribution partner ELEKTRON, ventopay realized a major project for Sonova AG in Switzerland. The rebuilding of the staff restaurant and the commissioning of the mocca® system have considerably shortened the queues and increased customer satisfaction.
Automated guest preference prediction with ADPAY
In the current October issue of GVmanager - the industry journal for executives in the public catering sector - the special section was dedicated to the topic of cash register systems. The article "Cloud instead of glass ball?" explained ways in which modern POS systems are already taking over production and sales planning for caterers.
Attractive cafeteria with digital customer loyalty at ÖMBG
At this year's event "Construction and operation of canteen kitchens and modern company catering" on 9 and 10 October, ventopay took part as a platinum partner at FH Campus Wien.
Departure into new working worlds
The newspaper Catering Management provided an interesting insight into the company restaurant of the new AXA Germany location in its April issue.
Hospitals in Vienna are using mocca®
Together with the KAV – the Vienna Hospital Association – ventopay has installed the mocca® cash register and payment system in 14 hospitals and nursing homes over the last twelve months.
ventopay and United Against Waste reduce food waste
ventopay has been a member of the United Against Waste (UAW) initiative for several years. Several companies have joined forces and set a goal: Halving avoidable food waste by 2020.
Integrated cash register and ERP solutions
The smooth interaction between cashless cash register systems and ERP solutions is a critical success factor in the area of community catering. The automated exchange of data between the cash register and the ERP system is an integral part of a modern, functioning solution, especially for restaurateurs, canteens, and company caterers.
ventopay supplies new payment system for ratiopharm arena
A few days ago, ventopay gmbh commissioned the cashless cash register and payment system mocca® in the ratiopharm arena Ulm. 39 stationary as well as 25 mobile cash registers ensure simple, fast and secure payment with the SchwabenCard and the ratiopharm arena card.
Powerful support for ventopay service team
Since 01.04.2017, Benedikt Kiesenhofer has been working as a team leader in the field of service and quality management in the ventopay service team. One of his areas of responsibility is, above all, to ensure customer satisfaction in the long term.
mocca® instead of Quick at Julius Blum
Julius Blum GmbH commissioned ventopay to switch to the cashless cash register and payment system mocca® at the seven plants in Austria. Nearly 180 vending machines were equipped with the mocca.vend modules from ventopay and replaced the discontinued payment system Quick.
Successful go-live at VEBO in Switzerland
With the introduction of its cash-free cash register and billing system, the VEBO cooperative is using the mocca® system of the Austrian market leader ventopay. For ventopay this means the successful implementation of the first project in Switzerland.
Five steps: Cash Register Security Regulation
On 01.04.2017, the Austrian Cash Register Security Regulation (RKSV) enters into force. As of this date, each cash register must be equipped with a technical security device for protection against manipulation.
United Against Waste: Fight food waste
ventopay is part of the initiative “United Against Waste”. Together, a major goal is being pursued: halving avoidable food waste by 2020. Together with the ORF environmental initiative “MUTTER ERDE”, “United Against Waste” recently presented the results of an Austrian, representative consumer survey on “What does the guest want?”.
Gerry Beck joins ventopay Germany
ventopay Germany officially welcomes Gerry Beck as he recently joined the team. He has been working as a project coordinator since the beginning of August. The goal is the long-term strengthening of project management structures in Germany.
ventopay payment system at Allianz Stadium
A special highlight of Austria’s most modern stadium is cashless payment. ventopay equipped the stadium with the mocca® system. The highly innovative solution allows quick payment in the stadium. A separate currency, the so-called Rapid Mari€, can be used at the 130 stationary and mobile cash registers at the Allianz Stadium.
Austria-wide equipment of all ÖMBG canteens by ventopay
ÖMBG published a tender for a new POS system in March of this year. ventopay emerged as the best bidder in the public procurement process and will soon equip all ÖMBG canteens in Austria with a new pos system. Over 50 canteens are equipped with a total of 88 stationary and 7 mobile cash desks.
ventopay wins OEBB tender
ventopay recently won a tender of OEBB for innovative POS systems as the best bidder. The aim of the joint project of ventopay and OEBB is the central management of all cash registers and the process optimization in staff catering.
New team members for ventopay
This year, ventopay welcomed two new team members: Marina Undesser takes over Marketing in Hagenberg. At ventopay Germany in Essen Silke Rostami supports as an Assistant of the Sales Manager.
New sales agent at ventopay
We are proud to welcome Mr. Christopher Baumgartner at ventopay. He will be responsible for the Austrian market and the further development of the ventopay brand. Previously, Mr. Baumgartner was employed at Frauscher Sensor Technology where he was working in the area of Online Marketing.
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