November 15, 2006 08:00 AM EST

Three Major Foodservice Distributors Join RTI to Provide Electronic Ordering to Restaurants

PFG, SYSCO Foods, and CDI Foods become RTI Supply Chain Partners, improving ordering efficiency for their quick-service restaurant clients.

ATLANTA — RTI (Restaurant Technology, Inc.), a leading provider of Web-based restaurant back office systems, announced today that three major foodservice distributors have recently joined forces with the software company to provide electronic ordering capabilities to their restaurant clients.

PFG (Performance Food Group), SYSCO, and CDI Foods were added this quarter as new RTI Supply Chain Partners. Their participation allows their restaurant clients to download electronic order guides—their product lists—into the restaurant’s RTIconnect back office software, and then transmit their foodservice orders via the Internet.

Many restaurants place orders and receive deliveries two or more times a week, and distributors routinely change products and product packaging. Using RTIconnect’s electronic order guides feature, the restaurants can now ensure that their inventory item numbers, as well as pricing and unit-of-measure information, stay in sync with their distributor.

Each time the distributor updates its product list, the updates are sent electronically to RTI. Then using this information, the RTIconnect back office software can let restaurant managers know immediately if an item is discontinued or repackaged in a different measurement, or if new items are added. Keeping restaurant inventory item lists in sync with those of the distributor also helps the restaurant operator maintain any available eOrdering discounts.

RTI Supply Chain Partners now include: CDI Foods, COI Foodservice, I Supply Company, Maines Paper and Food Service, McCabe’s Quality Foods, MBM Food Service, PDS (Personalized Distribution Systems), PFG (Performance Food Group), Shamrock Foods, Sygma Foodservice, SYSCO Foods, Upper Lakes Foods, and Willow Run Foods.

About RTI (Restaurant Technology, Inc.)

RTI (www.internetRTI.com) is a leading developer of technology solutions for the quick-service and fast-casual restaurant industries. Today more than 9,000 restaurants across the United States and Canada rely on RTI solutions, including many of today’s best-known restaurant brands. Application of the technologies provided by RTI enables restaurant operators to maximize efficiencies in their administrative and restaurant operations, reduce operating costs, and improve service to guests, which ultimately yield more profitable restaurants. Incorporated in 1985, the company is headquartered in Atlanta, Ga.

Contacts:

Greg Waddell

Vice President – Sales & Marketing

Restaurant Technology, Inc. (RTI)

ph: 770-590-4300

fax: 770-590-4313

greg.waddell@internetRTI.com