Pub and restaurant operator, Mitchells & Butlers, has rolled-out a hosted cloud network solution across its 1,600 UK businesses. The network transition, implemented and managed by Fujitsu, enables M&B to provide its guests and employees with enhanced services.

It also supports the group’s growth plans by improving operational agility and end-user experience overall.

The end-to-end managed network offering connects M&B offices, restaurants and pubs to applications and services delivered from the cloud; this includes DSL based Wide Area Network (WAN) services as well as Ethernet for offices. It also includes wired and wireless services to support individual outlet needs, from access to central applications and services to connectivity of the PoS terminals to take payments.

Robin Young, operations director at Mitchells & Butlers, says: “We have worked closely with Fujitsu to implement an agile IT infrastructure that underpins our expansion and growth plans. The hosted network solution provided enables our growing UK network of restaurants and pubs with an enhanced experience both in how and what they access through the network.”

Roll-out to the 1,600 outlets took four months and was achieved with minimum disruption and zero downtime. The hosted network solution lays the foundation for initiatives such as guest wi-fi and the deployment of advanced ordering and payment systems using both in-house and guests’ own mobile technology.

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