Kitchen Brains’ Quality Product Management Application Chosen by Yum! Restaurants International

STRATFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kitchen Brains (formerly SCK Direct, Inc.) announced today that Yum! Restaurants International (YRI), a division of Yum! Brands, has chosen the company’s architecture and web-based solution, Quality Production Management (QPM) for some of its KFC international restaurants.

“In a consumer-focused industry like ours, delivering on the brand promise is paramount. SCK's [Kitchen Brains’] process automation solution enables us to deliver an even better experience for our customers and truly reinforces our Customer Mania philosophy”

Kitchen Brains’ QPM application is a systemic solution that wirelessly networks cooking appliances and provides real time monitoring and administration capabilities, while delivering meaningful results. In addition to providing a host of remote management capabilities and compliance oversight, QPM enables restaurant teams more time to focus on hospitality and the guest experience.

"In a consumer-focused industry like ours, delivering on the brand promise is paramount. SCK's [Kitchen Brains’] process automation solution enables us to deliver an even better experience for our customers and truly reinforces our Customer Mania philosophy," says Jack Clare, CIO for Yum! Restaurants International, the international division of the world’s largest restaurant company, with more than 14,000 restaurants in over 110 countries and territories outside the U.S. and China.

According to Nicholas Didier, CEO of Kitchen Brains, the framework agreement enables Yum! Restaurants International and Kitchen Brains to immediately deploy the system into additional international markets.

"We are delighted that having deployed our solution into the KFC brand in Great Britain, the product is delivering the value we and our customers have come to expect,” says Christian Koether, VP of Kitchen Brains. “Moreover, we expect the value proposition to grow exponentially as we further leverage our existing in-store wireless network and above store administration tools in the areas of Set Point, Asset, People, HACCP and Energy management.”

Adds Clare, “SCK’s [Kitchen Brains’] adaptable system architecture enables it to interface with our diverse landscape of existing IT solutions by market and more rapidly deliver benefits to the YRI system. This is a strategic path agreement that will evolve over time as we gain more experience and our team learns how to extract further value.”

About Kitchen Brains

Kitchen Brains (formerly SCK Direct, Inc.) is a pioneer and global leader in the development and deployment of integrated, end-to-end, wireless M2M networking solutions and SAAS applications for the commercial kitchen/food service industry. Kitchen Brains’ technology connects all the components of food preparation--refrigeration, cooking, rethermalization, baking, and holding--into a seamless environment that is managed and accessible, even remotely, from anywhere. Kitchen Brains streamlines equipment diagnostics, maintenance and service, while reducing operating costs and increasing sales.

To learn more about Kitchen Brains, visit www.kitchenbrains.com.