AMT COFFEE
AMT Coffee are the founders and leaders of gourmet take-away coffee in the UK. We were the first and only national coffee company to go 100% Fairtrade with our coffee and 100% Organic with our milk!
Our award winning coffee is individually made for each and every one of our customers from our gold and brown coffee bars which are mainly located in prestigious railway stations and airports.

• HR
• Scheduling
• Payroll Bureau

AMT Coffee required a solution to their outsourced Payroll in India. Fourth were just the right thing to manage a UK wide kiosk operation to accuratley capture all essential Payroll data.

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KRISPY KREME
Opened it's first store in the UK in the world famous Harrods department store in October 2003. Since then they have improved their coffee programme and introduced their new 'Hot Doughnut Machine technology', which allows them to bring the Krispy Kreme hot doughnut experience to more people.

• Fourth Ordering and Stock Control
• Integrated Recipe Management
• HR, Scheduling & Payroll Bureau

Krispy Kreme began to use Fourth from inception for HR, Rotas and Payroll. Everyone knows the success story that this has become, with Fourth playing no mean part in the provision of key HR and Labour cost data for good control.

Another stock system was chosen at the time, which interestingly has subsequently been replaced by Fourth because of the way the Fourth System can so easily handle batches, distribution, internal requisitions etc. and keep such a tight control on costs.

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BAGEL FACTORY
Bagel Factory features all natural, GM free bagels offered in a variety of flavours that are low in fat, salt and cholesterol, yet high in energy-giving carbohydrates.

• Fourth Ordering and Stock Control
• Integrated Recipe Management
• HR, Scheduling & Payroll Bureau

Bagel Factory were struggling to control their key costs and had so many manual paper based and word/excel systems that getting meaningful management data for anything that related to Stock or Wage Costs was difficult.

Fourth changed all that with their fully integrated products, Bagel Factory were able to ditch all the myriad of paper, and now are able to proactively manage their key costs.

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Le Pain Quotidien
In 1990 the original and first Le Pain Quotidien store opened its doors in downtown Brussels. The public welcome was warm, and success was instant. By 1993 there were 16 different stores in Europe.
The naturally leavened bread made contains quite literally 3 ingredients: water, flour and salt. Alain spent several years perfecting the taste, and so little by little the unmistakable taste of the original daily bread ('le pain quotidien') was created.

• Fourth Ordering and Stock Control
• Integrated Recipe Management
• HR, Scheduling & Payroll Bureau

LPQ had just the one site when Fourth Systems were brought in to introduce Core Cost control and manage yet another planned complex web of purchasing, manufacturing and distribution. Now with 6 sites, Fourth has played a key part in facilitating this growth, and kept a lid on Stock and Labour Cost.

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PAUL UK
The history of PAUL is the story of one family’s love of good food and passionate commitment to the best traditional baking methods over more than 100 years. In 1889, a small local bakery opened in Croix near Lille in Northern France. Four generations later the PAUL name is known throughout France and, increasingly, around the world.

• HR, Scheduling & Payroll Bureau

'Paul' very small when they adopted the Fourth way of life, (2 sites) but have since grown to where they are now, with no signs of slowing.

Accurate Payroll, good controlled wage costs, one easy to use HR system with no duplication through a widespread group.

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LEON
The acclaimed Leon chain marries shoestring decor with its now familiar formula of virtuous, seasonal dishes at fast-food prices. But while health & balance are important – chicken is free-range, brown rice is organic & there are wheat-, fat- & lactose-free dishes – flavour & fun have not been sacrificed.

• Fourth Ordering and Stock Control
• Integrated Recipe Management

With high volume fresh food it's a Big kitchen supports the current 8 sites. Fourth replaced an Excel based 'Stock and recipe system' that was in no way going to help manage the speedy growth that Leon was going to see.

With Fourth systems Leon get speedy stock results, can quickly understand any differences in theretical stock to actual, and helps them to understand that very gap of 'Unknown Wastage', and keep it tight whilst also tracking all the different declared wastage that comes from managing a big fresh food offering.

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HAMBURGER UNION
Eat in and take away restaurants - All their hamburgers are handmade on the premises each day They use only natural fed, grass-reared additive free beef. All the beef comes from Charolais and Charolais Hereford cross Oxfordshire cattle. Their chips are proper chips made from fresh potatoes and never frozen. They always offer at least three interesting hot vegetarian choices.

• Fourth Ordering and Stock Control
• Integrated Recipe Management
• HR, Scheduling & Payroll Bureau

A flick of a switch is all it takes for a Fourth Customer to enable a new site complete with all stock products and recipes. As for new Employees, just key in their details! Hamburger Union benefits from the ease of opening a new site enabling them to focus on all the other madness that surrounds such an opening, with the comfort of knowing their control of Stock and Labour cost is in particularly good hands.

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