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NYC, NY – January 18, 2016 – The Meatball Shop has chosen  xtraCHEF, a restaurant purchasing and cost automation tool, to enhance efficiency and transparency in their many NYC locations and commissary kitchen. xtraCHEF digitizes paper invoice data and provides restaurant operators with actionable insights and analytics on their restaurants’ purchases and costs in real-time without data-entry.

“Ever since we started with xtraCHEF, our internal invoice/cost management processes have become more efficient, our managers better informed in a timely manner, and for the corporate team...  a lot less headaches in manually keying in data. For the first time, we have access real-time data on our purchases and costs, which has given us the ability to make real-time proactive-not-reactive decisions. It’s saving us a lot of money and labor hours throughout our seven locations." - Mike Cerulli, Controller and chief ball-counter at The Meatball Shop

Additionally, xtraCHEF has the ability to reconcile credits, track historical item prices and weekly purchase volume variances, as well as automatically GL codes every item. The data can be integrated with many ROS including Compeat, which severely cuts the amount of time spent on manual-data-entry.  

“Adding The Meatball Shop as a customer holds great importance as we are big fans of the brand. They are a prime example of how to grow and manage a restaurant group within the most competitive restaurant landscape in the world,” said Kevin Cox, Co Founder of xtraCHEF. “The best decisions stem from the accurate information and actionable insights, and that’s what we provide our customers with xtraCHEF.”

About xtraCHEF:
XtraChef is an App-based subscription service that provides restaurants with real time purchase and cost analytics through proprietary image capture technology. xtraCHEF rectifies countless operational errors and costly misappropriated time stemming from an outdated industry-standard paper invoice processing.  While easily working for single unit operators, it provides greater insights to multi-unit operators who are managing multiple outlets through comparative analytics and variance alerts.

More Information: www.xtrachef.com & twitter @xtraCHEF

About The Meatball Shop:
Owned and operated by native New Yorkers and longtime friends Dan Holzman and Michael Chernow, The Meatball Shop is a fast casual restaurant specializing in Meatballs (of course!) with six locations in New York City.  They have been featured in most of the major food media outlets, have a cookbook aptly named The Meatball Shop Cookbook, and featured in the food reality series “Consumed” on CNBC.

More information: www.themeatballshop.com & twitter @meatballers

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