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WAND Corporation Donates Three Panel Outdoor Digital Menu Board to Charity
Eden Prairie, Minnesota-3 August, 2009. WAND Corporation announced today the donation of a three panel outdoor Digital Menu Board system to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. This replacement for a standard outdoor menu board features three 46 inch sunlight readable LCD displays mounted in a single enclosure, where each board has its own climate control system to ensure maximum performance. The charity auction was the highlight of the Dave Thomas Memorial Classic, a Wendy’s Wonderful Kids/Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption golf event sponsored by Wendy's FourCrown, a Wendy’s franchisee. The WANDisplay three panel outdoor Digital Menu Board was on display at the benefit’s banquet held on 07-19-2009 at the Wayzata Country Club in Wayzata, Minnesota. The unit was acquired by a prominent Wendy’s franchise.
“We’re pleased to have helped continue the tradition started by Dave Thomas of helping children that need permanent, loving families” said WAND Corporation’s Chief Operating Officer, Greg Perrill. “It also gives us great pride that a piece of technology we have given will continue to give back to the community as a useful tool that will promote featured items and is expected to produce sales lift for the store location that it will ultimately be installed at”, continued Perrill.
This three panel Outdoor Digital Menu Board is the latest addition to the WANDisplay Digital Restaurant solution. The Digital Restaurant combines operations, marketing, and the bottom line to deliver real-time control, reporting, and analysis for Quick Service Restaurants. Everything from menu board content to food cost is tied together in one database and maintained with one web based Enterprise Management solution. The WAND Creative Group handled the development of content and the integration of the Order Confirmation Display within one of the three LCD screens, eliminating the need for a standalone unit.
About Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is a non-profit 501(c)3 public charity dedicated to dramatically increasing the adoptions of the more than 150,000 children in North America’s foster care systems ready to be adopted. Created by Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas who was adopted as a child, the Foundation leads programs such as Wendy’s Wonderful Kids, which puts adoption recruiters in all 50 states and Canada to find permanent, loving families for children in the foster care system, and Adoption-Friendly Workplace, which encourages employers to offer adoption benefits to their employees. The Foundation also works with adoption advocates and officials to streamline the adoption process and make adoption more affordable for families. As the only Foundation dedicated exclusively to foster care adoption, it is driven by its founder’s simple value: Do what’s best for the child. To learn more about the Foundation’s work, please visit http://www.davethomasfoundation.org/.
About Wendy’s FourCrown
Wendy’s FourCrown operates 59 Wendy’s restaurants and is currently the only Wendy’s franchisee in the Minneapolis/St. Paul Metropolitan Area and in St. Cloud, MN. Founded in 1985 by Mike Givens and Dan Opitz, Wendy’s FourCrown’s overall objective, “is to have the finest collection of stores, by all criteria, in the entire Wendy’s system”. As a family-owned business, Wendy’s FourCrown has been built on family values and has always sought to do the “right thing” for its employees, customers, and partners, including through charitable donations of time, labor, and financial contributions. For more information please go to www.wendysfourcrown.com
About WAND Corporation
WAND Corporation is the world leader in POS software for Quick Service Restaurants, and a leading innovator in Digital Menu Boards. Much more than digital signage, Digital Menu Board technology shows the customer what they want, when they want it. Thousands of QSR locations benefit by working with WAND Corporation, including Wendy’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Church’s Chicken, and Long John Silver’s. With over 150 employees and more than 20 years of experience in a rapidly changing industry, WAND Corporation is a nimble, thriving QSR innovator, having never lost the spirit that was the inspiration for its birth in 1987.
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Editors Note: A high-res image of the three panel outdoor Digital Menu Board system is available by clicking here
