Radiant Systems' MenuLink .NET Back Office Solution Named As Microsoft EMEA RAD Award Finalist
Orange County, CA (Feb. 13, 2006)— The MenuLink .NET back office solution has been recently named as a Microsoft Retail Application Developer (RAD) award finalist in the “In-Store Systems” category for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. MenuLink products are currently used in more than 8,000 food service sites.
“We’re excited to be named a finalist in this prestigious competition,” said Ron Whitaker, MenuLink founder and vice president, in the Radiant Hospitality Division. “We’re also very proud of the .NET solution because it’s proven to make the restaurant operator’s life easier with constant visibility into operational information.” Restaurant operators can increase profitability by controlling labor and material costs through real-time information available via a Web browser. The MenuLink .NET product is an intuitive, multilingual and centralized Internet-based back office application that operates even when an Internet connection is unavailable.
“The addition of the MenuLink products has created a complete technology solution offering the highest value to restaurant operators,” said Andy Heyman, president of Radiant’s hospitality division. “The Microsoft RAD award is highly regarded in the industry and we’re proud that our ongoing innovation has been continuously recognized as industry leading by Microsoft.” Radiant has won more than 15 Microsoft RAD awards.
The MenuLink .NET product is a Smart Client solution that provides restaurant operators flexible architecture to deploy configurations ranging from fully centralized to distributed. The centralized configuration provides real-time management of all sites. A centrally located database provides central reporting and interfaces to external systems with only a small client footprint required.
About Radiant Systems, Inc.
Radiant Systems enables restaurant operators to increase sales, control operating costs and build customer loyalty through innovative technology solutions including point-of-sale, back office, enterprise reporting, gift card, loyalty programs, hardware and support. Radiant Systems features the easy to use, award-winning suites of Aloha and MenuLink software products coupled with its reliable, industry-proven hardware products. Radiant Systems' hospitality division is a global technology leader with more than 40,000 sites installed in more than 25 countries.
A publicly traded company since 1997, Radiant’s headquarters is in Atlanta with regional offices in Dallas, Memphis, Los Angeles, Prague, London, Singapore and Melbourne. Radiant has more than 900 employees worldwide and has more than 125 certified sales and service providers. Backed by a global infrastructure, Radiant Systems uniquely offers an end-to-end solution with the easiest to use and most reliable software and hardware in the industry.
Founded in 1985, Radiant Systems, Inc. (www.radiantsystems.com) provides innovative store technology for the hospitality, petroleum and convenience retail, specialty retail and entertainment industries with more than 50,000 sites worldwide.
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