Subway to accept NFC payments starting in October

Subway will soon allow customers to pay for their sandwiches with the tap of a smartphone. The sandwich franchise chain said it will launch contactless NFC payments across more than 26,000 restaurants in the U.S. starting Oct. 1. The company is working with Softcard, a mobile payments joint venture operated by the big four cellular networks, to launch the system, but a Subway spokeswoman said that any payment app based on the NFC standard will be accepted. That includes the soon-to-be-launched Apple Pay and existing services from Google Wallet, PayPal and other vendors.