Carlson Restaurants Worldwide Selects CrunchTime!’s Web-Based Enterprise Solution to Reduce Costs at their Commissary, Warehouse, Distribution and Restaurant Operations

Carlson Restaurants Worldwide and their wholly owned subsidiary, Pick Up Stix, has chosen the enterprise application suite from CrunchTime! Information Systems, as its back office management solution. Pick Up Stix will be deploying Enterprise Manager^TM at its headquarters, central commissary, warehouse and distribution facilities, while Net-Chef^TM will be used at each of its 84 restaurants to order products, manage inventory and analyze food and operating costs with the solution’s comprehensive functionality and reporting capabilities.

Pick Up Stix plans to connect all of its remote units via the Internet to a central database using CrunchTime! technology and architecture. The CrunchTime! application suite was selected to enhance profitability by improving corporate control and increasing operating efficiencies. The solution will facilitate the implementation of best practices throughout the commissary, warehouse, distribution and restaurant operations for Pick Up Stix. The comprehensive functionality of the CrunchTime! solution will allow Pick Up Stix to manage all of these diverse operations with one solution. CrunchTime! features centralized bid and contract management, production planning, recipe scaling, food cost modeling, perpetual inventory management, receiving and invoice reconciliation, store-level and enterprise-wide reporting, integrated bar coding, hand-held capabilities, and seamless integration to point-of-sale and general ledger systems.

"CrunchTime! is thrilled to have our products endorsed as the leading foodservice technology solution by such a world renowned company as Carlson Restaurants. We are confident that the Carlson and Pick Up Stix organizations will realize significant benefits similar to those being enjoyed by other industry leaders who use CrunchTime! for their foodservice operations. Carlson’s selection of the CrunchTime! back office application suite is a strong endorsement of the scalability and flexibility of our product and our ability to deliver value to the foodservice industry with technology," said Bill Bellissimo, CrunchTime!’s CEO and President. "CrunchTime! will give Carlson and Pick Up Stix complete visibility of their production, distribution and restaurant operations, and offer restaurant personnel a powerful toolset that allows them to manage their locations more efficiently."