Jul 26, 2002/FW/ -- Coca-Cola Fountain and EMN8 (Enterprise Media Networks) announced today their exclusive alliance to bring digital media point-of-purchase solutions to the Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) industry beginning in September of this year.

The EMN8 technology enables QSR customers to place orders at futuristically designed, point-of-purchase terminals that incorporate touch-screen ordering in a real-time, interactive, entertaining audio and video environment.

The technology also allows consumers to conduct transactions in multiple languages, to select multiple payment options such as cash, credit and debit, and to receive change to the penny.

Digital Media Point-Of-Purchase
(Photo courtesy of EMN& and Coca-Cola Fountain)

During the next 24-months, the Coca-Cola Fountain sales and marketing organization, EMN8 and Intel will work closely together to deliver the solution to Fountain customers. EMN8 already has a backlog of orders for the installation of its new unattended interactive terminals where Coca-Cola is served.

"Innovation is one avenue in which Coca-Cola Fountain expands our full-service partnership with restaurant customers," said Eric McCarthey, Coca-Cola Fountain Senior Vice-President, Sales and Marketing. "The EMN8 technology will be a tremendous benefit for Coca-Cola Fountain customers and I believe the added benefits of the EMN8 product will change the Quick Service Restaurant experience for all consumers."

EMN8's unattended Customer Service Terminal uses the power and price / performance of Intel architecture to give consumers an interactive, retail experience of cinema quality. By combining self-service choice with expanded payment options and a platform for loyalty and reward incentives, consumers will experience retail brands in a new, powerful and personal way.

"The work EMN8 is doing with rich media at the point-of-sale will transform the experience of customers interacting with companies like Coca-Cola" said Tom Lacey, vice president, sales and marketing group, Intel Corporation. "We're proud that EMN8 has chosen Intel architecture, including the Pentium 4 and Intel Xeon processors, to facilitate this important development in the retail industry."

"This alliance will give Coca-Cola and EMN8 a unique, sharing relationship that will accelerate business for EMN8 and provide an enhanced value-added service to Coca-Cola Fountain QSR customers," said Paul Monahan, chief executive officer of EMN8.

The EMN8 automated customer service solution provides QSR owners with a financially compelling, reliable, customer-driven ordering and payment platform that uses engaging media to increase sales, reduce labor costs, and optimize customer satisfaction. EMN8's proprietary solution integrates a real-time graphics engine with an advanced, modular, standards-based, distributed computing architecture that creates a powerful, scalable and extensible enterprise environment.