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I also recently discovered a cool service that works with my favorite lunch teriyaki place called LevelUp. I use this functionality every other day or so at Starbucks in Seattle with various Starbucks card apps on Android and Windows Phone. While I think the future is in NFC and some kind of associated service for mobile payments, you can use several other clients that put a bar code on your mobile phone display that is then scanned by a reader at the store.

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