HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MIRUS Restaurant Solutions, reporting on a single area within its flexible exception-based restaurant management (EBRM) tool, easily increased revenue by 300-thousand dollars for Tumbleweed Southwest Grill.

With software that can look at every transaction, MIRUS instantly measured how many soft beverage sales were being recorded compared to the number of entrees. Bingo.

Tumbleweed’s Director of Mission Control Steve Brooks said, “The exception capability enables us to see which servers ring in water in place of other beverages from all levels of our organization. Soft beverage sales are up more than 6% since the start of this exception. With MIRUS we have a loss prevention tool that is more powerful than any loss prevention department.”

MIRUS President and CEO Dave Bennett said, “Fraud is a systemic problem throughout the restaurant industry, and it’s so easy for our solution to find. Our clients at Tumbleweed understand that ignoring it is like turning your back on the opportunity to recover bags of money, and I mean big bags. Loss prevention is one of the quickest ways we help clients offset rising costs.”

For Tumbleweed’s 23 company-owned units, the recovery amounts to an average of $13,000 annually per store. And that’s only part of the payoff picture from MIRUS.

“Tumbleweed finds the soft beverage-to-entrée exception to be one of many MIRUS solutions with ROI,” added Brooks.

Customer-focused, MIRUS leads the industry in convenient, flexible restaurant management solutions that enable operators to watch what they need to watch and make informed decisions based on real-time information.

Tumbleweed is based in Louisville, Kentucky. The chain opened its first restaurant in New Albany, Indiana in 1975 and currently has 49 restaurants operating domestically and 13 internationally. For more information about Tumbleweed, contact the corporate office at (502) 893-0323 or visit www.tumbleweedrestaurants.com.

MIRUS is the industry leader in EBRM solutions. It pioneered the delivery of business intelligence and exception-based reporting over the Internet with its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), successfully serving recognized regional and national brands. Clients include Arby’s®, Burger King®, Burgerville®, Café Rio Mexican Grill®, Carino’sTM Italian Grill, Church’s Chicken®, Dairy Queen®, Denny’s®, Don Pablo’s®, El Gallo Giro®, Great American Restaurants, Hops Grill & Brewery®, Planet Hollywood®, Shells Seafood Restaurants®, The PALM Restaurant Group®, Tumbleweed Southwest Grill® and Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group. MIRUS solutions are web-based, with subscription-based pricing, helping multi-unit food-service companies and multi-unit franchise operators drive profits and run their businesses more efficiently and more profitably.