Modernizing Festival Hospitality Through Technology, Data & Payments

BREAKAWAY MUSIC FESTIVAL is the largest national touring festival in the U.S., bringing globally recognized talent to local markets across 13 cities in 2026. Every stop is a multi-stage event, and the tour draws hundreds of thousands of fans annually.

Breakaway partnered with Speakeasy to modernize its premium hospitality operations, replacing hardware-heavy POS infrastructure and a fragmented reservation process with a unified platform for table reservations, floor-plan management, on-scene payment processing, chargeback prevention and guest data. Today, Speakeasy serves as a core technology partner for Breakaway’s premium hospitality operations.

Breakaway needed a solution that could:

• Operate reliably across temporary festival environments, without dependence on traditional POS hardware
• Simplify reservations with a direct path from inquiry to payment
• Give their internal team a centralized view of on-scene guest status, location, inventory, and live spend
• Improve payment reliability and reduce post-event chargeback risk
• Show guests a real-time picture of premium hospitality locations relative to the main stage, giving them transparency into what they’re buying
• Support its on-site and remote needs 24/7
• Capture guest information that previously went uncollected, creating a foundation for connecting festival transactions back into its CRM and retargeting efforts

Speakeasy became the payments & data layer for Breakaway’s premium hospitality operation, beginning with three core products: Table POS, Premium 3D Bookings, and Floorplan Manager.

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“Speakeasy has made our onsite operations more efficient, our guest experience more seamless, and our team better equipped to deliver exceptional hospitality at every festival.”
— Premium Experiences & Hospitality Manager

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