Highlights from FRANMAC

This year’s FRANMAC brought into clear focus the urgent priorities facing Taco Bell franchisees. Several recurring themes stood out:

• Real-time data is high stakes. The ability to see store performance as it happens is no longer a nice-to-have.

• Clean, integrated data across systems matters. Silos and misalignments between accounting, operations, payroll, and inventory systems were cited repeatedly as obstacles to scaling smartly.

• Legacy platforms must go. Many panels echoed the warning: the longer you cling to old systems, the more costly and risky your transition becomes.

These takeaways resonate deeply with everything we do at Tablespoon. Our experience working with systems like Sage Intacct for Taco Bell franchises gives us confidence that there’s a better path forward:

• We offer Taco Bell–specific dashboards and templates that compress weeks of setup into a ready-to-use foundation.

• Our clients report a 30% reduction in food and labor cost overruns, 10+ hours saved weekly on accounting drudgery, and 25% higher profit margins over manual methods.

• The shift from legacy tools (e.g. Sage 100 and Great Plains) to a cloud, dimensional, multi-entity system has been made smoother with hands-on support; getting organizations off brittle infrastructure and into real-time visibility faster.

FRANMAC reinforced something we already believe: operators who prioritize clean data pipelines, actionable dashboards, and a modern architecture will be the ones who move fastest. If you weren’t at the show, this was the conversation; and this is where Tablespoon is helping lead the way.