RTIconnect Case Studies
A Minute Here, a Minute There, RTIconnect TimeClock Saves Wendy's Franchisee $30,000 a Year
Manna Inc. says using TimeClock software to enforce employee breaks easily saves each restaurant an hour of labor cost per day. Read more »
Wendy's Franchisee Avoids Costly POS Switch and Gains Food Cost Control
Needing more accurate food cost information to help run their 14 Wendy's restaurants, Calhoun Management Corporation shopped around for software—and found the answer through their hardware. Read more »
Operations Director Uses Creative Weekly Recap Report to Save an Entire Management Shift for Each of his 11 Restaurants
Monday used to be the dreaded administrative paperwork day for the general managers at Frosty Management Corporation. Now these 11 GM's simply enter a few numbers into their RTIconnect back office software, and then they're off their computers and back running their restaurants. The process is not only easier, it's saving their company hours of management labor every week. Read more »
Franchisee Improves Store Economics by 3.4%, a $250,000 Yearly Savings, with Help from RTIconnect
Mickey Bailey knows there’s a fine line between keeping his Moe’s Southwest Grill customers happy with the portions they are served while ensuring reasonable profits for his restaurants. He believes his company, Red Hawk Restaurant Group, has achieved both—and in the process is saving as much as a quarter-million dollars a year as a result of implementing RTIconnect. Read more »
Identify Trouble Spots and Lower Food and Labor Costs
Wen-Star depends on RTIconnect for an accurate, detailed picture of the sales, labor, cash, and inventory in each of its 15 Wendy's restaurants. The software has helped them cut food cost 3.4 percent and labor cost 1.3 percent. Read more »
Thousands of Dollars Returned to Bottom Line
Beavers, Inc. chose RTIconnect to help manage its sprawling 39-restaurant franchise. The software did more than just computerize the operation: it provided an "instant" view for the Arby's franchisee and saved the company $1,000 a year per store. Read more »
Franchisee Tackles Rising Food Costs and Scores with RTIconnect
Faced with the rising cost of food, Wendy’s owner Dave Hale turned to RTIconnect for help—and saved thousands of dollars the first year. "It has greatly improved our food cost. It actually dropped it in the beginning about 2.5 percent, which is phenomenal." Read more »
IT Costs Eliminated
Switching to RTIconnect back office software for their 10 Arby’s restaurants allowed American Roast Beef, Inc., to save “a bundle of money” in IT costs, save hours each week for management, and provide better reports to help managers track costs of inventory and crew labor. Read more »
Operator Dramatically Lowers Food Cost by Cutting Waste
Hart Restaurant Management cuts food waste in their 34 Burger King restuarants and lowers food cost up to 2.5 percent. Managing Director Gary Hart, describing RTIconnect as "absolutely infallible," says he chose RTI's software for its purposeful, theoretical food costing. Read more »
Reduce Labor Costs
RTIconnect helps manager cut labor costs and save scheduling time. Kona, Inc., of Idaho Falls, ID, uses RTIconnect to cut labor costs without sacrificing service. Read more »
Cut Ordering Time, Lower Inventory
Manager says using RTIconnect Order Guides cuts ordering time, lowers restauant inventory, and saves hundreds each month. Before implementing RTIconnect in her Arby’s restaurant, Kona manager Amanda Roberts depended on “Excel and a pencil” to manage her inventory and ordering. And while her spreadsheets were really good, nowadays it’s all about the technology. Read more »
Control Food & Labor Costs
Arby’s Largest Franchisee Selects RTI’s Internet Software to Control Food and Labor Costs. Atlanta-based RTM Restaurant Group, Arby’s largest franchisee, has selected RTIconnect software for its restaurant food and labor cost controls. RTIconnect, an Internet-enabled software system, was released in late 2003 by Restaurant Technology, Inc. (RTI). Over the past six months, RTM installed and implemented RTIconnect in 723 of its Arby’s restaurants. Read more »
Quick Results
Wenesco Restaurants, Inc., Sees Quick Results with RTIconnect. Wenesco Restaurants, a multi-unit Wendy's operator based in Englewood Cliff, N.J., implemented RTIconnect in late summer, 2003. Since that time, Kevin Woodside of Wenesco reports that “Even at this early stage of implementation, the Inventory Management alone has trimmed well over 1% off our food cost.” Read more »