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How This Buffalo Wild Wings Franchise Group Increased LTO Sales 261 Percent Year-Over-Year

Better communication generally translates to better sales, customer service, and overall operations. The team at Anderson Management, which operates seven Buffalo Wild Wings franchise locations throughout Montana, understands the impact that timely and easily actionable communication has on operational success.

This franchise group almost tripled LTO sales by using technology to offer timely, effective incentives to team members.

Better communication generally translates to better sales, customer service, and overall operations. The team at Anderson Management, which operates seven Buffalo Wild Wings franchise locations throughout Montana, understands the impact that timely and easily actionable communication has on operational success.

Until Anderson Management implemented Shift, an employee engagement platform, daily communication was time-consuming and not efficient enough to be useful for team members. The quick-service restaurant industry’s fast-paced nature means that communication platforms need to keep up with the speed of information.

Every summer, Anderson Management runs a Twisted Tea promotion, and while previous years have been successful, once Anderson Management began using Shift, the campaign became much more profitable. This year, Anderson Management was able to top last year’s units sold after just 19 days of their 60-day Twisted Tea promotion. Sales were projected to increase by 245 percent year-over-year, but by August 2023, the promotion had skyrocketed to achieve a 261 percent increase over last year’s sales. The major change was this year they used Shift to power TV screens in the back of house to communicate with staff.

Prior to implementing Shift, Anderson Management used to gather and send out data to team members manually, which was time-consuming and oftentimes did not reach the employees. “A huge problem was the lag time between the office and getting information to the stores in a timely manner. For example, I was re-running a contest, and every Monday those reports needed to go out to the store so that they could be printed and posted somewhere. So Shift really took away the middleman from these communication issues,” David Moorhead, Anderson Management director of marketing and finance, says.  

Even if the message was able to get to the different franchise locations in a timely manner, there was still a barrier in ensuring team members saw the message and applied it to what they were doing. “That is what we’ve used [Shift] for. It is a sales-building tool, as well as a place to highlight a job well done for our deskless employees. We can display the top 10 servers in real time and create healthy competition. You can highlight those servers who are doing a really good job at selling a particular product and attaching Blazin’ Rewards [loyalty program] to transactions,” Moorhead says.

According to Moorhead, Shift’s ease of use allowed employees to have an incentive in mind that made participating in promotions and rewards programs easier. All of this contributed to a bump in sales. Employees knew how other stores were performing with rewards programs and promotions, and realized there could be healthy competition as day-to-day performance was highlighted across the company.

“[Shift] is great because it is an employee retention and sales-building platform. It makes employee communication a lot easier too. With [Shift], you can put out a bulletin in two minutes to every store in the state instead of sending out an email. It is such a time saver,” Moorhead says.

For more information, visit the Shift Website.

By Ya’el McLoud

Trusted by industry-leading enterprises
Foster a friendly, competitive environment
“The affordability of [Shift] is incredible, and the sky is the limit for the effect it’s having on our culture... I feel really confident our work environment improves for our team members when they feel as though they’re being highlighted and appreciated. You can hear it as you walk through one of our stores. There’s somebody being wished a ‘Happy Birthday,’ or somebody saying, ‘I didn’t know that about you.’”
Jason Zieman

Owner/Operator

Easy to use!
“We have been using QR campaigns to gether submissions from employees... so we can showcase what's going on at each facility. This has dramatically increased our company-wide culture & communication. The platform is easy to use with branded templates that allow quick announcements. We're really happy with [Shift] - nothing but positive feedback from facilities too!"
Spencer Trefzger

Director of Marketing Avamere Living

More effective suggestive sellers
"[Shift] enables our cashiers to be more effective ‘suggestive sellers,’ with sales leaderboards on our back-of-house TVs. Our cashiers naturally want to be at the top of the leaderboard to be recognized and rewarded, which results in them selling more than they typically would.”
Russ Lo Bello, COO

Burger King Franchisee, COO Phoenix Organization

It's a very powerful tool
"It's a very powerful tool. It can work either for a single restaurant owner or for a multi-unit owner and also for a restaurant group... I see it as a more modern, contemporary tool to communicate with your employees. Our Gen Z and Millenial employees especially love to interact with our [Shift platform]."
Jose Vazquez Barquet, VP

Subway

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