The increase of sales are huge and its good for the city and restaurants and all that.

It is crucial that restaurants match sales with shipments. If demand for an item exceeds supply, individual restaurants are faced with either unhappy customers or higher costs when they have to place special orders at the last minute. Conversely, an over-supply of a product is an unnecessary expense. Pairing an automated marketing intelligence system with a sophisticated supply chain program virtually guarantees that a restaurant will have the products the customer wants.

That means more disposable income, which results in more visits to restaurants and more restaurant sales.

The biggest issues and challenges are that fewer people are going to each of their restaurants. Their per-store sales are declining and profit margins are being squeezed and they need to do something to turn them around.

There's no beating around the bush. Allowing alcohol sales has helped. It's brought new restaurants here.

I know we want to keep downtown tuned into it. We want the restaurants and the shops and the downtown to benefit as well.