With such an emphasis on quality and attention to details, it is no surprise that the IT Manager, would undertake a serious and through search for software that would meet his expectations. He began this quest of finding the ideal back office and accounting system for Pappas Food Service in 2001. Most of the software programs he investigated at that time were incomplete and he wanted a fully integrated 32-bit Windows based system. Enter InSTORE; The search was over.

“The first criteria was to find a back office And accounting system that were seamlessly integrated with a consistent graphical user interface. InStore's similar screen design (to Microsoft Accounting) reduces the amount of training time required of new employees,” says the IT Manager. “Ordering & Receiving is handled at the store level and then transferred to corporate. The goal, and we are close, is to use the InSTORE system at both store and corporate level.” He goes on to say, “The Daily Cash Report is extremely powerful and flexible, allowing us to link data from all of our POS systems to the general ledger.”

“InSTORE Systems has been very receptive to our suggestions about adjustments and improvements to their software. They are eager to satisfy,” he concludes.

COMPANY IMPLEMENTS INSTORE SYSTEMS’ SOLUTION CHAINWIDE
Houston Restaurant Operator rolls out InSTORE back office software solutions to ten locations

Atlanta, GA (April 20, 2004) – InSTORE Systems, a leading supplier of back office software solutions to the food service industry recently announced the deployment of its Store to Corporate HQ suite of products to the Milwaukee-based corporation, a ten restaurant fine dinning and casual dinning table service chain.

(“With the use of current (VPN) technology and the ability for end users to customize the application them selves; We has deployed InSTORE & Microsoft Great Plains out to the store level users.” stated S Fox President of InSTORE Systems.)

“Three InSTORE Systems modules, Order Receiving, Sales Item/Count reporting, and Cash and Sales have been implemented at our corporate office,” said the IT Manager. “We have implemented Order Receiving and will be rolling it out to all our restaurants. We are providing the restaurants with access to InSTORE.”

Thirty store managers handle purchases using the InSTORE Build Order, Order Entry and Order Receiving screens. The Order Reports are used to verify their work and obtain purchase totals by inventory category for use in weekly budgeting. The managers also use the Order Inquiry to review previous invoices and payments.

Tom Heldstab is assisting managers one-on-one to train them on Inventory Item Maintenance in preparation for physical counts from the InSTORE Inventory control feature. “During the past few months that we have been using InSTORE we have found its integration with Microsoft Accounting to be very valuable. This has been especially true during our recent manager training. It has greatly simplified our training process. Because the InSTORE screens look and work like the Microsoft Accounting screens our managers don't know the difference. Once they learn how one screen works they can apply that know how to every screen in the system.”

For over ten years InSTORE Systems was designed to meet the needs of Service Based Industries. Food Service, Quick Service, Fine Dine, Hotel, Cafeteria, Specialty Retail Shops, Caterers, Warehouse/Commissary Operations with Multiple Store-to-Corporate Users. InSTORE Systems is the solution of choice for just some of the following restaurant accounts; Hardees, Arby’s, Taco Bell, Copelands of New Orleans, Pappadeauxs’s, Eddie Martini’s, Kobe Steaks, Star Concessions and many more).

This Houston-based corporation operates three different table service concepts in ten locations throughout the state of Texas. Founded in (1976) Papadeaux ’s approach is "Everything we do will be genuine, engaging, vibrant, personal, refreshing, energizing, satisfying, colorful, consistent, and worth remembering.).