Fireaway Pizza has rolled out a new unified payments platform to consolidate online and in-person transactions across its 160+ UK and Ireland based restaurants.

The move is designed to streamline operations for the growing UK franchise by reducing complexity, improving visibility, and enabling cost and time savings.

Integrating payments into a single system also aims to give the pizza chain greater control over transactions across its entire store estate, whilst also boosting the customer experience.

The growing UK franchise has partnered with payments firm Mollie and Solutions4Delivery to rollout the platform.

The first Fireaway Pizza store was opened by Mario Aleppo in April 2016 in London.

Since then, it has expanded to over 160 locations in UK & Ireland, as well as internationally into Portugal, the Netherlands, and Türkiye.

The company's chief commercial officer Brandon Alexander said the move has achieved a "significant time and cost saving" for its franchises.

He added that the unified system has provided the business with "greater insights, control and visibility across franchises."

Mollie currently serves 250,000 businesses, with a 750-strong team operating across Amsterdam, Ghent, Lisbon, London, Maastricht, Milan, Munich, and Paris.

The partnership forms part of the payment firm's wider growth strategy in the UK hospitality sector.

The company is already working with leading brands such as Sushidog, AYBL and Wild Cosmetics.

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