Case Study: Buffalo Wild Wings doubles accounting productivity and reduces idle cash and lost deposits with Trintech ReconNET

Buffalo Wild Wings Substantially Lowers Idle Cash Balances, Reduces Lost Deposits and Dramatically Increases Accounting Productivity

Buffalo Wild Wings, a 1,175-location casual dining and sports bar chain with about 10,000 employees, faced a labor-intensive reconciliation process for its 250 company-owned stores. Corporate accounting manually matched POS receipts to bank statements daily, spending most of its time tracking down information, resolving exceptions, and struggling with lost deposits and idle depository funds — a bottleneck that threatened scalability as the company grew.

By implementing Trintech ReconNET™ to automate reconciliations and exception handling, Buffalo Wild Wings doubled accounting productivity (five staff), yielding over $120,000 in annual soft-dollar savings and avoiding approximately $50,000 in hiring costs. Late deposits and missed exceptions were virtually eliminated, field notifications now occur in real time, idle cash is moved automatically via ACH, and staff can focus on exception resolution and faster month-end closings.

Buffalo Wild Wings

John Sorum

VP and Corporate Controller