As Restaurants Focus on Lowering Operational Costs, HotSchedules Sees Strong Demand for its Online Restaurant Labor Management Solutions.

HotSchedules Increases Customer Base by 20 Percent Thus Far in 2009; Names Sales Veteran Ray Brons as Director of Sales to Accommodate Rapid Business Growth

AUSTIN, Texas -- Even with the sting of higher food costs and shrinking consumer spending in full effect, restaurant executives and managers continue to look for ways to add to their bottom line. A simple, yet highly effective way to reduce costs is through online labor management and employee scheduling, which can dramatically reduce overtime costs, improve employee retention and communication, and create more accurate labor forecasts.

HotSchedules, the premier provider of restaurant labor management and online employee scheduling solutions, continues to see high demand for its affordable and feature-rich labor management tools. Thus far in 2009, HotSchedules has increased its customer roster 20 percent with the addition of more than 1,000 new restaurants and 75,000 new users, for a total of 4,000 restaurants and 375,000 users. For the past three years, HotSchedules has doubled in revenue and is on track to repeat this rapid growth in 2009.

HotSchedules also announced several new customers in 2009 including:

* Restaurants Unlimited

* Jillian's

* Lucky Strike

* Gordon Biersch

* AppleGrove

As part of its ongoing expansion, HotSchedules is pleased to announce that Ray Brons has joined the company as director of sales and will assist with business development. Ray brings more than 26 years of sales management, client services and business development expertise to HotSchedules. Prior to joining HotSchedules, Brons served as VP of sales and marketing for DelaGet, where he was responsible for developing strategic partnerships and increasing sales to the nation's largest restaurant chains and their franchisees. Brons has previously held positions at SPS Commerce and Norstan Communications.

"We are pleased to welcome Ray to the HotSchedules family. He has a long track record of success in working with renowned restaurant operators, and we are confident his work will help us continue the exciting growth we've experienced over the last several years," said Ray Pawlikowski, President and Co-Founder, HotSchedules. "We believe restaurants will continue seeing the differentiation and value of our solutions that can help them lower operating costs and improve employee retention and communication."

About HotSchedules

HotSchedules, innovators of the most widely-used restaurant workforce management solutions, sets the industry standard for service, support and labor management expertise. By engaging with its clients as partners, HotSchedules vastly improves management-employee communications, resulting in greater employee satisfaction and retention -- and offers a fast, proven ROI through reduced manual scheduling and labor costs. From independent restaurants to corporate chains, HotSchedules' suite of solutions empowers restaurant staff and managers with all the tools they need to communicate effectively and efficiently. More than 4,000 restaurants and over 375,000 users rely on HotSchedules every day. HotSchedules complements its product offerings with a world-class, bilingual support staff at the company's headquarters in Austin, Texas. Follow HotSchedules on Twitter at www.twitter.com/hotschedules.

HotSchedules' corporate and franchise clients include such well-known concepts as Outback Steakhouse, the Cheesecake Factory, P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Carino's Italian, Chili's, Carrabba's Italian Grill, Fleming's Steakhouse, Applebee's, BJ's Restaurants, Gordon Biersch, Jamba Juice and many others. For more information, visit www.hotschedules.com.