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Leading US Law Firm Opts for Rendezvous from NFS Hospitality Corporation

NFS Hospitality is delighted to announce that Goodwin Procter LLP, based in Boston with a total of eight offices nationwide, has contracted to implement Rendezvous as their room booking software. Rendezvous is the browser-based scheduling solution from NFS, now in use by many law firms internationally.

Because of its powerful functionality and flexibility, Rendezvous has become a popular choice among large law firms to manage heavy demand for meeting room facilities. The browser-based system has powerful calendar management functionality as well as the capability to deal with foodservice and AV scheduling. Outstanding integration with Outlook is also part of the solution. Its security features enable any firm to track visitors from arrival to departure as well as produce visitor badges.

Rendezvous is used by major international law firms including Clifford Chance LLP, White and Case LLP, DLA Piper LLP and Proskauer Rose LLP.

About Goodwin Proctor

Goodwin Procter is one of the nation's leading law firms with more than 850 attorneys in offices in Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. The firm's core areas of practice are corporate, litigation and real estate, with specialized areas of focus that include financial services, private equity, technology, REITs and real estate capital markets, intellectual property, tax and products liability. Information may be found at www.goodwinprocter.com.

Harrogate International Centre selects NFS for venue management

Harrogate International Centre (HIC), one of the UK’s largest conference centres, has selected NFS Hospitality to provide a fully integrated venue management solution for all its facilities.

Over the next three months, Rendezvous, NFS’ browser-based conference, meeting room and food and catering management solution, will be fully implemented, providing advanced functionality for venue staff to manage enquiries, events and billings.

Kevin McHugh, Project Manager at HIC, says:

" We are looking forward to using Rendezvous to help us make some important developments in the way we take the business forward. We believe that Rendezvous will provide the functionality we need, be easy to use, and will enable our expanding operation to adopt best industry practice.”

The Centre is currently embarking on a major six-year, £45m expansion and refurbishment programme. According to Stuart Quin, Director of HIC, “This expansion programme follows a year-long feasibility study to establish how we can maintain the success we have demonstrated as one of the key event venues in the UK.”

The HIC’s celebrated ‘”Golden Palace” – The Royal Hall - also reopens next spring after its £8m restoration. It is expected to offer HIC’s clients an inspiring alternative venue for corporate hospitality and theatre events.

In addition, HIC recently acquired the Sun Pavilion as part of its portfolio. This 1930s art deco styled building offers corporate event organisers a unique venue, centrally located in beautiful gardens.

Langan’s restaurant group selects new technology

Langan’s is one of London’s best-known restaurant names. Since it opened in 1976, it has set a high standard and attracted an A-list clientele in droves. It was founded by the late Peter Langan along with actor Michael Caine and Richar Shepherd CBE, now the sole owner. Today the Langan’s Group operates five restaurants, including Langan’s Brasserie, the flagship.

The group is known as much for its tradition of personal customer service as its food. This summer, realising that its old proprietary DOS-based EPOS system could not provide an adequate level of management information or control, Langan’s chose Aloha EPOS from NFS Hospitality for the group.

Langan’s restaurant group selects new technology

Aloha is the leading restaurant EPOS solution, used by over 50,000 customers worldwide. As an enterprise level solution, Aloha is ideal for fine dining groups like Langan’s. By streamlining operations in a seamless way, it allows staff at all five restaurants in the group to spend more time with customers and less at the point of sale terminal.

Gary Bennett, Operations Director of Langan’s, says: “We were ready to move up to a Windows-based system and I looked over the field. Aloha stood out as good value compared to its peers and it’s very easy to use. I was also impressed by the caliber of the NFS team.”

Gary expects a number of benefits from the new system; including good controls at site level, a better user interface for staff and more flexibility to set the system up to match the operation of the Langan’s Group. In terms of management information, Aloha’s range of reporting functions will allow him to keep tabs on profit margins and performance measures such as real-time sales statistics, product mix, employee clock-in status and server performance.

Gary will also benefit from NFS’ 24/7 helpdesk and from Aloha’s added functionality, including the possibility of loyalty programmes, restaurant reservations and head office centralisation. Luis DeSouza, CEO of NFS, says: “Customer service is key to fine dining. The Aloha software offers Langan’s a bestof-breed Windows-based EPOS system to capture guest
information, integrate front and back office, and provide real-time sales statistics. The benefits in terms of staff time saved are really dramatic. “

NFS is a leading international provider of software solutions for the hospitality industry. The company is based in Hertfordshire, and has operations in the USA, Ireland and South Africa as well as Business Partners in the Middle and Far East. The company’s product range includes Aloha EPOS, Rendezvous for Conference, Catering & Meeting Room Management and roomMaster, an automated reservation system for hotels.