| 11/12/05 |
| Tropical Smoothie Cafe To Blend e-Learning With Classroom Training |
| ScribeStudio to Provide Web-Based e-Learning Solutions for Hungry to Learn Franchisees |
| New York, NY: Tropical Smoothie Cafe, recently voted one of Franchise Times’ fastest growing franchises, and ranked 139 in Entrepreneur Magazine’s top 500 franchisees (2005) today announced that the leading quick casual restaurant franchise will be using ScribeStudio to train their franchisees and Area Sales Developers (ASDs). |
| Recognizing the need for speed to market, Tropical Smoothie Cafe is embracing ScribeStudio, a Web-based e-Learning toolkit to communicate (and archive) operations materials for new and existing franchisees. The company will also continue to utilize formal classroom training as a means to connect and dialogue with their franchise owners and ASDs. |
| "Due to scheduling and travel conflicts, it can take as much as three months before a new franchisee can attend our formal training courses at our headquarters in Destin, FL. With an additional 80 new Tropical Smoothie Cafés projected to opening in 2006, that delay could be costly. We need a supplemental solution to our training needs." said Dean Gonsior, Chief Operating Officer (COO) Tropical Smoothie Franchise Development Corp. |
| The Company also plans to use ScribeStudio as a medium to enable franchise owners and ASDs to view instructional videos relating to compliance issues as well. |
| "We estimate that providing our franchisees and ASD remote access to our training courses will save our company, including our franchisees and ASDs as much as $100k per year in travel and office expenses," added Gonsior. |
| "Educators, associations, and individuals have already seen the benefits of a low-cost Web-based e-Learning and content management solutions and we’re delighted to extend ScribeStudio’s capabilities to franchise training," said Peter Cervieri, Director, ScribeStudio. "We are sure that Tropical Smoothie Cafe franchisees will benefit from and appreciate the 24-7 access they will have to their learning materials." |
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ScribeStudio is an easy-to-use, 100% Web- based e-Learning toolkit that allows subject matter experts to author and publish online courses and training programs and to manage and communicate with learners online. ScribeStudio is located at http://www.scribestudio.com.
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