Eatec Corporation Wins Microsoft Retail Application Developer Award for Best Hospitality Back-Office Solution

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Emeryville, CA, June 10, 2003 - Eatec Corporation has been named a winner of a 2003 Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) Retail Application Developer (R.A.D.) Award. The R.A.D. awards recognize application software developers who make the best use of Microsoft technology to provide business benefits to customers in the retail and hospitality industries. Eatec won an award for its leading enterprise solution, EatecNetX, in the "Hospitality Back Office" category.

"In choosing the winners of this year's R.A.D. awards, we looked for solutions with both technological sophistication and real-world, measurable business benefits for their retail and hospitality users," said Tom Litchford, director of marketing and channel of the Retail and Hospitality Industry Solutions Group for Microsoft. "The R.A.D. awards program gives us the opportunity to recognize solution providers such as Eatec for their excellence in the areas of quantifiable business benefits, best use of Microsoft technology, ease of adoption by users, and best integration and exploitation of Web services technology."

EatecNetX offers actual business benefits to users through its ability to control food costs, increase revenue and improve productivity by automating manual tasks. Clients have seen food cost reductions of 4% to 6%, along with revenue increases of 0.5% to 1.5%. With EatecNetX, users have access to a breadth of functionality to better manage their foodservice operations including forecasting, purchasing and receiving, requisitions and transfers, inventory management, production management and recipe and menu analysis. In addition, Eatec offers additional functionality to meet the needs of specific environments including catering, concessions, manufacturing and retail.

"Eatec is proud to be a winner of the Microsoft R.A.D. Award. Eatec is dedicated to providing leading technology that will produce positive benefits for our clients and we are delighted to receive this special recognition," said Peter Marguglio, president of Eatec. "Eatec's utilization of Microsoft technology and our focus on developing a full-featured, configurable and scalable back-office application has made EatecNetX a world-class solution for foodservice and retail management." tality Industry Technology Expo and Conference) at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana from June 24 - 26, 2003.

Company Information
Eatec Corporation is a leading provider of enterprise back-office solutions and services for the hospitality and foodservice industries. EatecNetX, Eatec's web-centric software solution, helps organizations reduce costs and improve operational efficiencies, resulting in a quick return on investment. Eatec clients include restaurant chains, hotels, resorts, casinos, stadiums and arenas, convention centers, universities, schools K-12, theme parks, airline caterers and supermarket foodservice. For more information, visit our web site at www.eatec.com or contact Eatec at 510-594-9011 or by e-mail at news@eatec.com.

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