 San
Francisco, June 10, 2008 � In search of a highly accurate and automated
solution to address the industry-wide challenge of predicting volatile
F&B demand patterns, the 1,800-room Sheraton Waikiki recently implemented
the Carnus Forecaster across the property�s F&B outlets. As promised,
the Carnus� artificial intelligence quickly �learned� the operating environment
and is automatically providing a consistent staffing accuracy of over 90%.
Victoria Peters, Director of Six Sigma Black Belt at Sheraton Waikiki and Royal Hawaiian Hotel said, �We are impressed with the automation and 83+% cover accuracy of the Carnus Forecaster. The system continues to improve over time as it �learns� our operating environment using its artificial intelligence technology.� Having just completed a massive $55M renovation in 2007, which included revamping all F&B outlets, the brand and its ownership have been constantly focused on new ways to maximize the return on their recent investment. �We turned to the Carnus Forecaster to help us solve the age-old challenge of accurately forecasting demand in a highly volatile F&B setting. Carnus� automated forecasting solution frees up valuable manager time each week and enables us to maximize labor productivity across our F&B outlets,� said Michael Doyle, Executive Vice President of Asset Management at Capital Hotel Management (CHM), the largest independent hotel asset and investment management company in U.S. Up until now forecasting & scheduling restaurants has been widely accepted by the industry as a weekly "crap-shoot". Carnus forecasting & staffing technology can significantly reduce regular and overtime labor using the most cutting edge artificial intelligence technology the industry has ever seen. This NASA technology is coupled with Carnus� automated labor scheduling feature which makes accurate forecasting and scheduling a 2 click-of-the-mouse process, thus eliminating a traditionally manual task that is often highly inaccurate and takes many hours per week of valuable management time to accomplish. According to Vicky Bradshaw, CEO of Carnus Systems, Inc., �Labor is by far the largest expense in the hospitality industry. Therefore, a highly-accurate forecasting and staffing system can be a hotel�s biggest asset towards achieving the brand and ownership�s aggressive profit expectations. We have designed the most advanced yet affordable solution to meet this industry-wide need.� Carnus Systems will be showcased at the Hospitality Industry Technology
Exhibition & Conference (HITEC) June 16-19 in Booth 1939 at the Austin
Convention Center in Texas.
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