Case Study: Garner Foods halves device provisioning time and accelerates onboarding with Microsoft Teams

Family food business spices up operations, reduces new device implementation time by 50 percent

Garner Foods, a fourth‑generation family food business based in Winston‑Salem, needed to modernize IT to coordinate communication across four locations and a mobile sales force while reducing hardware management and IT overhead. To move to the cloud and improve collaboration, Garner deployed Microsoft 365 Business with collaboration tools including Microsoft Teams.

Using Microsoft Teams alongside SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Office 365, and other Microsoft 365 services, Garner consolidated vendors, simplified management for its two‑person IT team, and sped device provisioning—cutting new‑device implementation time by about 50% and trimming employee onboarding from roughly a day to under two hours. The Microsoft Teams–enabled solution improved cross‑site collaboration, strengthened security and compliance, and let Garner scale operations while maintaining lean IT support.

Garner Foods

Heyward Garner

Chief Operating Officer