Whiskey Creek Manager Save Time with Decision Logic
Seven hours per week average savings per restaurant
Kearney, Neb., August 6, 2007 –Wild West Inc., owner of the Whiskey Creek® Wood Fire Grill casual dining concept, today announced that their restaurant managers have experienced a significant savings of time as a result of implementing the Decision Logic enterprise management solution in their restaurants. Jim Gardner, President of Wild West Inc. and Whiskey Creek Franchise Systems stated: "I knew of some other multi-unit operators that were already using Decision Logic, so I was reasonably certain we would see good results from implementing the solution. I was pleased with the enterprise reporting Decision Logic provides, but the savings in time our unit-level managers have experienced was a pleasant surprise. On average, our managers are saving about seven hours a week performing inventory-related tasks, which allows them to spend more time taking care of our customers and running the restaurant."
Jeff Conkel, Decision Logic President, added: "I have a great deal of respect for the approach Jim has taken to include their franchisees in Whiskey Creek’s vision for how technology can be leveraged to provide enhanced profitability. We are pleased to be able to play a small role in helping Whiskey Creek Franchisees to fulfill their development commitments."
About Whiskey Creek® Wood Fire Grill
Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Kearney, Nebraska, Whiskey Creek® features grilled menu items cooked over a hardwood fire of oak and ash. The menu offers something for everyone including steak, BBQ, pasta, sandwiches, burgers and salads, all at family-friendly prices. Another feature of the restaurant is its selection of 50 plus flavors of margaritas. Whiskey Creek® Wood Fire Grill is the largest Nebraska-based steak restaurant chain with fourteen restaurants in Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and Florida. Wild West Inc. currently has eleven company-owned stores and three franchise stores, with two more franchises set to open this year. The company has a goal of opening thirty-five additional franchises in the next five years.
Company Contact: Jodi Davies jodi@whiskeycreek.com (308) 234-2757
About Decision Logic
Decision Logic’s advanced middleware creates value for Multi-unit Restaurant Operators by offering an operations solution that provides above store reporting, supply chain management, and a comprehensive back office solution. Unique capabilities such as aggregated Real-time P&L, allow the .Net-based solution to provide industry-leading ROI, while offering a clear vision of how Franchisee and Franchisor can jointly leverage technology for the mutual benefit of both groups.
The Decision Logic logo is a registered trademark of Knowledge Management Systems, LLC. All other product and brand names are the property of their respective owners.
Company Contact: Melany Tate mtate@mydlweb.com (888) 358-7728
Decision Logic Solution Rolled-Out to all Company Restaurants within 90 Days
Tulsa, OK, October 18, 2006 – Rib Crib Corporation, operator and franchisor of the Rib Crib BBQ & Grill restaurants, announced today that they have completed a rollout of the Decision Logic enterprise management solution in all corporately owned restaurants. Rib Crib is a popular casual dining concept operating primarily in the central plains states. They have won numerous awards for their BBQ, ribs, and chili, and also maintain an award winning website that can be viewed at www.ribcrib.com.
The Decision Logic rollout included DL’s Sales & Financial module, Supply Chain & Variance module, and Accounts Payable module, with the Payroll module to be implemented in 2007. Brad Dentis, Rib Crib’s VP Operations stated: “We evaluated multiple solutions before deciding that Decision Logic was the best fit for our operation. I think the processes we had in place prior to Decision Logic were adequate, but we needed increased visibility. As a result of implementing Decision Logic, we now have the granular level of detail we need to make prudent and quick decisions. The flexibility of the web-based program has allowed our business to adapt to the mobile nature of our multi-unit managers. We are now ready to implement this program in the franchise system.”
Nathan Pickerill, Senior Project Manager for Decision Logic added: “During our Rapid Design Meeting with Rib Crib, we indicated that we could complete their implementation in a few months if they wanted to move that quickly. They decided that a 90 day implementation would be preferred, which is pretty fast for a group with the unit count that Rib Crib maintains. Not every company should try to rollout DL in 90 days, but we were able to adhere to the specified timeline due to the cooperation, teamwork, and attention to detail provided by the Rib Crib group. They have been a pleasure to work with.”
About Rib Crib Corporation
Rib Crib Corporation was founded in 1992 by Bret Chandler in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Known for offering distinctive barbecue with bold spices, Rib Crib has won numerous rewards for their ribs, BBQ, and chili. The restaurants’ rustic wood and stone décor is designed to replicate an old western ranch, but with all the modern conveniences today’s diners demand. They currently operate over 50 restaurants in 8 states.
Company Contact: Danielle Smith (918) 712-7427.
About Decision Logic
Decision Logic provides an enterprise management middleware solution for Multi-unit Restaurant Operators as well as a separate, comprehensive solution for Distribution Center operators. Designed by former restaurateurs to be an operations solution, the Microsoft .Net-based Decision Logic solution provides Above Store Reporting with a supply chain focus while offering a superior bi-directional integration with popular accounting solutions.
The Decision Logic logo is a registered trademark of Knowledge Management Systems, LLC. All other product and brand names are the property of their respective owners.
Company Contact: Melany Conkel mconkel@mydlweb.com(888) 358-7728
Operators cite value of above-store reporting systems
By JAMES SCARPA
Three years ago, Noodle Bar Inc. of San Francisco, operator of six Zao Noodle Bar casual Asian restaurants, cast its ASR lot with Decision Logic, a hosted application service provider. “I like that it gives us the ability to compete with large national chains,” said Matthew Baizer, president and chief executive officer. “We can focus on opening restaurants rather than hiring IT people.”
In one case, functioning as middleware between the POS system and procurement software, Decision Logic reports helped Noodle Bar Inc. identify and recapture a substantial amount of food cost losses. Baizer said the ideal versus actual—or “IvA”—food cost report showed a variance of $184,000 between the amount of food that should have been used and the actual usage. The variance was likely due to over-portioning, waste, spoilage, poor inventory or some other correctable problem, he said.
“After realizing that we were leaving that much in costs on the table, we were able to recapture about $145,000,” said Baizer, who further indicated that even after deducting the annual cost of the Decision Logic service, the net improvement was a six-figure sum.
(Originally published in an article from the January 8, 2007 issue of Nation’s Restaurant News)
Long Beach, CA, November 5, 2006 – Decision Logic today announced from the International Food Service Technology Exposition (FSTEC) that their new Active Budget Control (ABC) module has been successfully rolled-out to multi-unit, multi-concept operator, Concord Enterprises. Concord is the first group to fully deploy ABC, although five additional Decision Logic customers are in various stages of roll-out with the solution that is often referred to as “declining budget”. ABC is a comprehensive and flexible tool that provides store through enterprise metrics about planned budget, actual budget, and variance.
John Gabel, CFO of Concord Enterprises, stated: “We continue to be amazed by the innovations and value Decision Logic regularly adds to their solution. The Active Budget Control solution provided us with the flexibility we needed to automate a process that previously was tedious and burdensome. The ABC module paid for itself in one day of use and eliminates any guesswork on the part of our store managers. In the past, if they had a good sales week they figured they could spend a little more than what their budget indicated, and if they had a slow week, they guessed that they had a little bit less to spend than what the budget showed. Now, they no longer have to guess and are in a position to make better decisions.”
Jeff Conkel, President of Decision Logic, added: “Our development team did a great job of listening to our customers about what they needed for a budget tool in their restaurants. One of the best aspects of Active Budget Control is that it requires no additional work on the part of the customer. As a by-product of Store Managers, Accounting, and Payroll personnel doing their normal jobs, the fields of the budget control reports are automatically populated. It is a fabulous tool that adds significant additional value to the Decision Logic enterprise management solution.”
About Decision Logic
Decision Logic provides an enterprise management middleware solution for Multi-unit Restaurant Operators as well as a separate, comprehensive solution for Distribution Center operators. Designed by former restaurateurs to be an operations solution, the Microsoft .Net-based Decision Logic solution provides Above Store Reporting with a supply chain focus while offering a superior bi-directional integration with popular accounting solutions.
The Decision Logic logo is a registered trademark of Knowledge Management Systems, LLC. All other product and brand names are the property of their respective owners.
Company Contact: Melany Conkel mconkel@mydlweb.com (888) 358-7728
Lincoln, Neb. and Austin, TX., March 8, 2006 – TDR3, parent company for Hot Schedules, and Decision Logic jointly announced that the two companies have entered into a partnership that provides for a high level of integration between the companies popular solutions. Decision Logic customers will now have access to Hot Schedules leading labor scheduling solution through the Decision Logic enterprise portal, while Hot Schedules customers will now have access to a powerful set of enterprise-level labor reports.
Ray Pawlikowski, CEO of TDR3, stated: “Hot Schedules and Decision Logic were brought together by a mutual customer who suggested to us that our combined solution would offer many advantages over their usage of the two solutions as independent applications. Based on the enhanced functionality the combined solution now offers, he was correct!”
Jeff Conkel, CEO of Decision Logic added: “Our customer base has been searching for a labor solution that was simple to use, based on Microsoft .Net like Decision Logic, and integrated with multiple POS platforms. Hot Schedules fits that criteria and we are excited to be involved in a partnership with their company.”
About Hot Schedules
Hot Schedules specializes in online labor scheduling and integrated workforce productivity tools. With HotSchedules in place, employees and employers have anywhere access to work schedules and functions necessary to create, manage and adjust shift assignments without interrupting the flow of business. Integrated reporting and forecasting tools ease the labor scheduling process and quickly generate a positive return on investment.
Company Contact: Ray Pawlikowski Ray@hotschedules.com (512) 219-1492
About Decision Logic
Decision Logic provides an enterprise management middleware solution for Multi-unit Restaurant Operators as well as a separate, comprehensive solution for Distribution Center operators. Designed by former restaurateurs to be an operations solution, the Microsoft .Net-based Decision Logic solution provides Above Store Reporting with a supply chain focus while offering a superior bi-directional integration with popular accounting solutions.
The Decision Logic logo is a registered trademark of Knowledge Management Systems, LLC. All other product and brand names are the property of their respective owners.
Company Contact: Melany Conkel mconkel@mydlweb.com (888) 358-7728
Lincoln, Neb., July 4, 2005 – Decision Logic today announced that the company had completed the fourth phase of the Microsoft .Net migration process for their core Decision Logic solution offering. The .Net migration initiative started in 2001 with various modules of the Decision Logic solution converted to .Net as Decision Logic developers added new features and functionality to each module. From an End User perspective, the Decision Logic solution is now 100% .Net.
John Barber, Director of Development stated: “Although we were able to figure out a method to allow our legacy platform to co-exist with .Net on the same box, we’ve been looking forward to the day when we no longer were required to do so. Microsoft’s .Net and SQL platform combined with our n-Tier architecture gives the Decision Logic application power and flexibility that is more advanced than what other companies in our space are able to provide.”
About Decision Logic
Decision Logic provides an enterprise management middleware solution for Multi-unit Restaurant Operators as well as a separate, comprehensive solution for Distribution Center operators. Designed by former restaurateurs to be an operations solution, the Microsoft .Net-based Decision Logic solution provides Above Store Reporting with a supply chain focus while offering a superior bi-directional integration with popular accounting solutions.
The Decision Logic logo is a registered trademark of Knowledge Management Systems, LLC. All other product and brand names are the property of their respective owners.
Company Contact: Melany Conkel mconkel@mydlweb.com (888) 358-7728
Lincoln, Neb., February 14, 2004 – Decision Logic today announced the release of their Microsoft .NET-based communications tool. The universal data transmission solution will be branded as UDT2, and was designed to be a universal application that can be used for a variety of purposes in multiple industries. Using the latest development tools and Microsoft’s .NET platform, UDT2 is the result of an 18 month development effort and is significantly more advanced than other file transfer tools currently available.
John Barber, Director of Development, stated: “We use a small piece of UDT2 within Decision Logic to move data back and forth between the local store, corporate office, data warehouse, distributors, and the Servers where the Decision Logic application resides. However, we designed the product so it could be used independent of Decision Logic to meet the communication needs of POS Vendors, Food Distributors, and others. Based on the response our sales team has received to the product, there appears to be significant demand for a communications tool like UDT2.”
About Decision Logic
Decision Logic provides an enterprise management middleware solution for Multi-unit Restaurant Operators as well as a separate, comprehensive solution for Distribution Center operators. Designed by former restaurateurs to be an operations solution, the Microsoft .Net-based Decision Logic solution provides Above Store Reporting with a supply chain focus while offering a superior bi-directional integration with popular accounting solutions.
The Decision Logic logo is a registered trademark of Knowledge Management Systems, LLC. All other product and brand names are the property of their respective owners.
Company Contact: Melany Conkel mconkel@mydlweb.com (888) 358-7728