MICROS Delivers End-to-End Solution to Pizza Hut UK
August 18 2004 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
MICROS Delivers End-to-End Solution to Pizza Hut UK Home Service
Delivery Stores to Install First, Followed By Dine-in Restaurants
COLUMBIA, Md., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MICROS Systems,
Inc. (NASDAQ:MCRS), a leading provider of information technology
solutions for the hospitality industry, and Pizza Hut (UK) Ltd.,
have signed a major account agreement under which Pizza Hut (UK)
Ltd. purchases and installs MICROS RES 3000 and mymicros.net at all
of its equity locations in the United Kingdom. Following successful
operational trials earlier this year, the initial phase of
installations, to over 100 Home Delivery Stores, commenced in
August. To service the sophisticated requirements of the pizza
delivery segment, the MICROS offering constitutes a complete
end-to-end solution that includes point-of-sale, delivery, guest
services, labor management, secure desktop, enterprise management,
web-based reporting and analysis, inventory control, and MICROS
Workstation 4 (WS4) POS terminals. "Given our scale and growth
plans, we were looking for a fully integrated, scaleable solution
that would meet the demands of both our Home Delivery and Dine-in
restaurant businesses," stated Keith Adams, Director of IT for
Pizza Hut (UK) Ltd. "We have been impressed with the total MICROS
product offering. The flexibility of the enterprise mymicros.net
technology has enabled us to deliver an enhanced Above Store
reporting capability that will play a major role in our overall IT
infrastructure." Kaweh Niroomand, Executive Vice President, EAME
Region for MICROS stated, "According to industry analysts,
delivery/takeaway will become one of the fastest growing
foodservice sectors in Europe by 2008, and Pizza Hut UK as a leader
in that market, is a perfect partner for MICROS. MICROS looks
forward to expanding this technology partnership with Pizza Hut UK
in the years to come." About Pizza Hut Pizza Hut (UK) currently has
almost 600 outlets, including 380 company- owned dine-in
restaurants, 120 company-owned home delivery outlets and almost 100
franchise-owned stores. Pizza Hut is a division of Yum! Brands Inc.
-- the world's largest restaurant group -- with over 30,000 outlets
in 90 countries. Pizza Hut (UK) is a 50/50 joint venture between
Yum! Brands Inc. and Whitbread Group PLC. The company currently
employs almost 20,000 people in the UK. Whitbread Group PLC is the
UK's leading leisure business, employing 65,000 people and managing
some of the UK's strongest brands in hotels, restaurants and
racquets, health and fitness clubs, at around 1,900 locations
across the UK. Pizza Hut (UK) is famous for its unrivalled record
of product development. It has consistently introduced unique new
pizza concepts to the UK, such as The Edge, Stuffed Crust, Twisted
Crust and The Quad. It also has an extensive and innovative
delivery operation, which has pioneered service innovations such as
the Oven Fresh Delivery System and the Delivery Service Guarantee,
launched in 2003. In the 2003 National Business Awards, Pizza Hut
was one of only five finalists in the Employer of the Year category
and was the only casual dining restaurant brand to be nominated for
any of the 24 awards. Find out more at http://www.pizzahut.co.uk/.
About MICROS Systems, Inc. MICROS Systems, Inc. provides enterprise
applications for the hospitality and retail industries worldwide.
Over 150,000 MICROS systems are currently installed in table and
quick service restaurants, hotels, motels, casinos, leisure and
entertainment, and retail operations in more than 130 countries,
and on all seven continents. In addition, MICROS provides property
management systems, central reservation and customer information
solutions under the brand MICROS-Fidelio for more than 15,000
hotels worldwide, as well as point- of-sale and loss prevention
products through its subsidiary Datavantage for more than 50,000
specialty retail stores worldwide. MICROS stock is traded through
NASDAQ under the symbol MCRS. For more information on MICROS and
its advanced information technology solutions for the hospitality
industry, please contact Louise Casamento, Director of Marketing at
(443) 285-8144 or (800) 638-0985. You can also visit the MICROS
website at http://www.micros.com/ or send an email to . The MICROS
logo is a registered trademark of MICROS Systems, Inc. All other
product and brand names are the property of their respective
owners. DATASOURCE: MICROS Systems, Inc. CONTACT: Louise Casamento,
Director of Marketing of MICROS Systems, Inc., +1-443-285-8144 Web
site: http://www.micros.com/ http://www.pizzahut.co.uk/
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