Sure, you can always find a great restaurant through Yelp reviews ... but what about those long lines? Well, now you can forget waiting for your bill after a night out at a bar, at least. There's finally an app for that! Thanks to a new, free mobile payments application that integrates with merchant point-of-sale (POS) systems, consumers can open, view, and pay their tabs at bars and restaurants all over the country.

Built by security and credit card payment experts, the mobile payment app Tabbedout allows users to securely store credit or debit card information directly on their phones. It integrates with most major POS systems, making it as easy as a small software update for bars and restaurants to deploy.

This Austin, Texas-based app has already enabled thousands of mobile payments for consumers across a network of bars and restaurants across 20 states in 90 cities. With over 100 million smartphone users in the US alone, we can only expect more mobile technology solutions available to make shopping (and now, eating and drinking) easier and faster than ever.

For turning our phones into wallets and simultaneously speeding up service at bars and restaurants, Tabbedout is Character Approved.

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