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In early 2008 Extreme Juice only existed on a blueprint and in the mind of franchise owner Ryan Girodat. With design ideas on paper and ready to serve healthy refreshments, Ryan set out to create a place that would draw people in and keep them coming back. Ryan’s vision included a vacation scene with an advanced media center featuring two flat screen TVs. He also planned to add audio to the Extreme Juice ambience, along with a security system for safety and surveillance. This center would not only provide entertainment but could be manipulated from a remote location, allowing Ryan to change music and TV programs from home, and to look in on his business off hours. To help with the media details and to beat a deadline, Ryan called on Levi Daily of Core Business Services. Also, Ryan was curious about how Core’s payroll services worked.
The Client: Extreme Juice
Like the name implies, Extreme Juice goes well beyond mixing standard fruit flavors for its smoothies and other drinkable snacks. With a tropical, Hawaiian-ish ambience creating a vacation mood for customers, Extreme Juice blends special and secret flavors with fresh and sometimes exotic fruit to create excessively healthful refreshments. Owner Ryan Girodat opened his Eagle Point, Oregon, franchise in summer of 2008 with seating for 25 and a goal to serve hundreds of on-the-go juice junkies a day.
The Problem: Needed to Focus on Smoothies, Not Technical Issues
Ryan Girodat was eager to open his Extreme Juice franchise. All the details were in place. He had secured the perfect location, approved the final design and couldn’t wait to get started on the project. With a green light and all system go, Ryan established a tight deadline. He didn’t have to, but he wanted the Grand Opening to be sooner rather than later. But he needed professional help with the installation and initial testing of his advanced media center. And he needed someone who had the electronic media magic to make it happen. Also, with so much energy going toward growing his business, Ryan wondered if it would make good fiscal sense to have an outside expert handle his payroll.
The Solution: Technical Expertise and Outsourced Payroll System
Ryan met with Levi Daily to discuss his Grand Opening expectations and walked away knowing that that the Technical Director of Core Business Services had the electronic media touch Extreme Juice required. With his media hat in place, Levi went to work, installing equipment, pulling cable, playing with buttons, setting cameras and learning more than he needed to know about all the gizmos. And Levi proved he doesn’t mind getting dirty if that’s what a client needs. With a hands-on approach and a blue-collar attitude, Levi worked with Ryan to perfect systems on site and in Ryan’s remote location. Meanwhile, Ryan did the math and handed his potential payroll problems off to the Core team.
The Result: A Grand Opening Right on Schedule
Ryan Girodat had the big picture in mind: The vacation motif. The workflow. The Extreme Juice tastes and flavors. Levi cared about such details but remained focused the specific requirements of the advanced media center. When the last cable was run and the technology perfectly coordinated, Extreme Juice added sounds, security and screens to the customer experience. In addition, Ryan had control of media from afar. And with Core Business Services as the outsourced payroll service, Ryan’s extreme energy can abe spent on creating and serving. |
