El Polio Loco deploys MegaPath VPN support

Nation's Restaurant News,  Feb 19, 2007  

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Irvine, Calif. -- Grilled-chicken chain El Pollo Loco, based here, is deploying MegaPath's Store Connect VPN service to support data transfers between headquarters and the more than 200 restaurants now networked within the 351-unit chain, MegaPath said.

"MegaPath's fully managed secure connectivity services provide our restaurants access to the corporate resources they require, while allowing our headquarters staff to focus on providing tools that our crewmembers can use to build revenues and exceed our guests' expectations," said Tom Giannetti, El Pollo Loco's vice president of information technology.

Sources at Costa Mesa, Calif.-based MegaPath said the network services used by El Pollo Loco support accelerated credit card processing, "near real time" uploads of store-level transaction data to a data warehouse and the pushdown to store POS systems of promotions and pricing data.

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