SpeedLine's News & Advice
August 2007
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In This Issue:

SpeedLine 5.8 Sneak Preview

SpeedLine in the (Rascal) House

POLL: Make SpeedLine Better
for Your Business

Celebrity Sightings:
SpeedLine Users in the News

SpeedLine in the (Rascal) House
When Mike Frangos and his team at Rascal House Pizza made the decision to replace the POS systems at all their pizzerias, they chose SpeedLine for its delivery and catering capabilities.



They continue to build on that initial investment, taking advantage of the latest new technologies and services. By adding gift cards, SpeedMail, and Web ordering, Rascal House now delivers better service for their customers and new ways to boost sales for their franchisees.

Struggling with a POS solution that couldn't handle their busy pizza-focused operation and extensive catering, Rascal House made the decision to retrofit all their restaurants with SpeedLine. Today, they use the latest SpeedLine tools to improve results chain-wide. Click here to read more of their story.

Sneak Preview: Faster, Easier Meal Deals with SpeedLine 5.8

The new Directed Order Entry™ capabilities that we hinted at in the article on suggestive selling in the July issue really strut their stuff in menus that include value meals.

Value Meals: Getting it Right—Fast!
Do you offer value meals or package deals?


What new feature or capability would make SpeedLine more valuable to you?
Take the POLL!

SpeedLine 5.8 introduces a new set of tools for adding and pricing value meals. Make it easy for your staff to order a complete package deal with one touch of the screen, or build a custom meal with interactive prompts for each choice.

Easily control choices and substitutions for toppings, condiments, beverages, and sides. So if your Family Feast includes 12 chicken wings, a choice of Caesar or Garden Salad, a 2L soda,
and any three toppings on a large pizza, SpeedLine lays out the choices and calculates the pricing so your staff will get it right every time.
And value meals work seamlessly with SpeedLine Inventory, too.

The SpeedLine 5.8 beta testing is nearly complete. Watch for new release news in the next newsletter.

More New Stuff: Improved Employee Record-Keeping
SpeedLine 5.8 helps streamline employee record-keeping too. Track hire sources, transfer locations, and termination reasons for more efficient hiring and better protection for labor disputes. Control how employee user IDs are assigned, and take advantage of other employee data too.

Did you know that you can easily export complete employee records, including payroll information, at day end? If you use a third-party or head office payroll or HR service, getting them the data they need from SpeedLine is easy.

Call SpeedLine Tech Support to learn how.

And There's More...
That's not all. Watch for an announcement about the SpeedLine 5.8 release in your inbox soon. And read the September issue of SpeedLine News and Advice to find out what else is new....

POLL: A Better SpeedLine for Your Business
Although we add new capabilities with each new release, there is always more we can do to make SpeedLine better.

We keep track of every suggestion and request that you make in a database that we use to plan what we will develop next. But sometimes it's hard to decide which new features would have the biggest business impact for the most users.

The only one who can tell us that is YOU:

What ONE new feature, integration, or enhancement to SpeedLine would help you the most? Why?

Celebrity Sightings: SpeedLine Users in the News
Over the past couple of months, we've spotted more SpeedLine users in the industry news—and remember who made an appearance in Reader's Digest? Even if celebrity gossip's not your thing, we thought you might find some useful tips in the articles themselves:

Hammy's Pizza owner Adam Fuderer, caught hamming it up in a photo with partners Ashley Barry Fuderer and Rusty Johnson on page 20 of the July issue of Pizza Magazine, revealed how late-night delivery, previously viewed DVDs, and local organic ingredients are driving growth growth plans in Portland.

Pizza Inn general manager Steve Grennell, of Brunswick, GA, shared billing with SpeedLine's Jennifer Wiebe in a June 25th Pizza Marketplace Fast Tech article on managing labor costs.

Lenny Rago, co-owner of Panino's Pizzeria and Panino's Cafe and Bar, spilled his bruschetta secrets in an appetizer feature in the July issue of Pizza Today. (Sorry, no link available—but you can catch the article on page 36 of the June issue: "Bring on Bruschetta.")

As you may have read last issue, Parrot Pizza president Mark Deloury was spotted dispensing franchising advice in the June issue of PMQ.

And Canada's pizza and publicity queen herself, Diana Coutu of Diana's Gourmet Pizzeria, was spied not only in her regular column in Canadian Pizza Magazine, but (as we mentioned last issue) also earned the title of Best Pizza Chef in Reader's Digest's annual "Best of Canada" feature.

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