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KFC
and Chili's restaurants also will begin accepting Apple Pay in
2016, she said at the Re/code technology conference in Half Moon
Bay, California.
The service gives Apple a chance to tie customers more tightly
to its phones and its smart watch, as well as to take a tiny
bite from every retail transaction.
Apple launched the payment service a year ago and has claimed
2015 would be the "year of Apple Pay" as it aggressively courts
retailers.
But interviews by Reuters with analysts, merchants and others
have suggested that Apple's forecast may have been too
optimistic and that many retailers remain skeptical about the
payment system.
Customer demand for mobile wallets has been slow, and analysts
agree that they remain a tiny percentage of U.S. retail
transactions.
Brinker International owns the Chili's restaurant brand,
while KFC is operated by Yum! Brands <YUM.N>.
(Reporting by Julia Love, writing by Noel Randewich; Editing by
Christian Plumb, Alan Crosby and Dan Grebler)
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