(Irving, Texas - January 14, 2002) - Century Fast Foods of Los Angeles,
California, which owns and operates numerous Taco Bell locations in the Los
Angeles area, recently announced an agreement with Brink's CompuSafeŽ Service,
an electronic cash handling service created to provide greater convenience and
security for cash-intensive retail operations. Under this agreement, Brink's
will provide CompuSafe Service to 40 Century Fast Foods' Taco Bell locations.
"Our primary objective is peace of mind," said Jim Clark, Vice President of
Operations at Century Fast Foods. "Before, each location had to make three bank
deposits a day. Managers and employees had to count all the cash, both
cash-drawer and envelope cash, together before each deposit was made. Then,
home-office management had the time-consuming task of tracking, verifying and
reconciling all those deposits."
"With CompuSafe Service, we minimize the time and labor expense of counting
cash, making the deposits and chasing down discrepancies. Now, managers can stay
in the restaurant, which reduces the chance of robbery or accident, not to
mention the issue of who is running the restaurant when the manager is gone or
at the bank. When I say ?peace of mind,' I'm talking about peace of mind for
everyone - the head of operations, the restaurant manager, and the employees,"
said Clark.
Brink's CompuSafe Service provides improved security and accuracy for cash
transactions from the time a customer pays to the time the money is deposited in
the bank and completely eliminates the manual counting and re-counting of cash
on site at restaurants.
When restaurant employees insert currency into the CompuSafe unit, it reads and
validates the bills, placing them in secure cassettes. Brink's collects the
sealed containers and transports them to a Brink's currency room where trained
tellers verify the deposits and combine deposits from all Century Fast Foods'
participating locations. Brink's then makes a single, combined deposit into
Century Fast Food's bank and provides deposit total and restaurant detail to
Century Fast Foods' headquarters office.
"As for the bottom line, Brink's CompuSafe Service has paid for itself with the
money we saved in banking fees and labor," said Clark. "It was really a
?no-brainer' for us."
"Being able to consolidate banking activities with a single bank has been a key
benefit to Century Fast Foods and other multi-unit restaurants," said Glenn
Mason, vice president of Brink's CompuSafe Service. "This saves the time and
expense associated with multiple banking relationships and further reduces
exposure to loss and error."
Brink's CompuSafe Service is a solution that offers Brink's quality service
every step of the way, from the safes and armored transportation to the on-site
maintenance and nationwide electronic reporting. Perhaps most important, because
Brink's controls the entire process, the potential for theft and discrepancies
is minimized and Brink's can guarantee its clients that the amount of cash
reported in the cassettes when picked up will be deposited to their bank
account.
Brink's, Incorporated, founded in 1859, is the largest provider of armored
services in the world with over 150 facilities in the United States and a global
network that spans over 50 countries.
For more information on Brink's CompuSafe Service, please call 1-800-BRINKS-5 or
visit www.brinksinc.com/compusafeservice.