Shari's Reduces Costs for a Bigger Piece of the Pie
Situation: Known for its family dining and signature pies, Shari’s is the largest full-service restaurant chain based in the Pacific Northwest. Founded in 1978 and operated by Shari’s Management Corporation of Beaverton, Oregon, Shari’s Restaurants includes 104 locations in six states and employs nearly 4,500 employees. Restaurants are open 24 hours, offering a full selection of breakfasts, salads, sandwiches, hamburgers, dinner entrees, desserts and specialty pies. As such, on-hand inventory and prep is critical to meeting customer expectations for high-quality, reasonably-priced meals and responsive service.
Improve Your Restaurant Profitability
Overview: The restaurant industry is no stranger to the use of technology and the advantages it brings to the organization. The speed of the order process, improvement in communications between the front of house and the kitchen, accuracy and efficiency of accounting, and increased effectiveness of marketing all benefit from technology. But these do not go far enough in delivering the real savings that restaurant groups need to directly impact their bottom line.
Decision_Logic's Cloud Techniques Featured in Microsoft Case Study
Situation: Decision Logic, a Microsoft Gold ISV Partner, provides web-based back office solutions for Multi-unit Restaurant Operators. On the road to running a successful enterprise, these operators are faced with many challenges such as inventory management, inventory spoilage and waste, budget management, hiring and payroll, reporting and analysis, and of course, they must be extremely responsive to customer trends and behaviors.
Concord Ensures Profitability to the Smallest Detail
Nebraska-based, Concord Hospitality continues to grow steadily in the development and operation of such nationally recognized concepts as Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar, Village Inn, Holiday Inn and Famous Dave’s Bar-B-Que.
Move to the "Cloud lightens the burden on Porter Apple Company
Situation: The Porter Apple Company is one of Sioux Falls’ leading providers of quality food, beverages and entertainment. Continued growth placed demands on existing IT infrastructure to the point where it could not support additional upgrades to its accounting software system without a significant investment in hardware, along with the resources to install, manage and maintain it.