Case Study: GPS Hospitality achieves rapid, secure network rollout and centralized management with Fortinet

Secure Networking, Deployed Fast, Supports Rapid Growth for Quick-service Restaurant Group

GPS Hospitality, a rapidly growing franchisee operating Burger King, Popeye’s and Pizza Hut restaurants across multiple states, needed a scalable, secure IT approach to support hundreds of dispersed locations. The company faced a mix of disparate firewalls and technologies from acquisitions, making centralized management, PCI compliance, and consistent rollouts difficult as it expanded.

Working with HonorBuilt, GPS Hospitality standardized on a Fortinet architecture (FortiGate, FortiSwitch, FortiAP, FortiManager/FortiAnalyzer and FortiMail) managed centrally through the Fabric Management Center. The deployment enabled VLAN failover, simplified global updates and compliance reporting, eliminated a separate compliance tool, and allowed HonorBuilt to deploy the new secure network to 200 restaurants in two months—supporting GPS Hospitality’s expansion to 486 locations and dramatically improving operational efficiency.

GPS Hospitality

Jim Barlow

Director of IT