Tablespoon, the leading restaurant industry-focused Sage Intacct partner, is speaking at The Restaurant Finance & Development Conference (RFDC). Andrew Lester, Tablespoon's founder and CEO will speak with Bruce Belvin, OneDataSource's founder and CEO on Wednesday, November 13th. They will speak on the topic of "How to Think About Outsourcing vs. Insourcing Your Accounting. This session will examine how to think about outsourcing vs. insourcing the accounting functions. We will explore the benefits and challenges of each approach, considering factors such as cost-effectiveness, control, access to expertise, technological changes, and labor pressures. Join us to discover the best approach for your restaurant group, whether using external accounting services or building a robust internal team with best-in-class software.
See the conference agenda: https://www.restfinance.com/app/RFDC24-Agenda.pdf
Andrew Lester is founder and CEO of Tablespoon. With over a decade of experience as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and advisor to business owners, Andrew delivers the knowledge and commitment to help restaurants grow.
Always searching for innovative strategies to help drive his clients forward, Andrew is a solutions-oriented thinker and an expert in cloud accounting technologies. After working for firms like Arthur Andersen and Grant Thornton, he started his own CPA firm in order to build closer relationships with clients and help make their lives easier. His entrepreneurial approach leverages his experience both as a CPA and a business owner focused on sustainable growth.
Andrew earned his MS in Taxation and BBA in Accounting, Real Estate, and Urban Development from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. He is an active musician, playing in three bands, and in his free time enjoys the food and craft beer scene in Dallas.
Upon moving from Taco Bell corporate to the Yum! Brands franchise side, OneDataSource Founder and CEO Bruce Belvin quickly found himself running over 70 stores across three different brands. In an attempt to run those operations more efficiently and profitably, Bruce recognized the need to aggregate all the data his stores had across disparate systems into a single system of record.
With this need in mind, Bruce hired a local developer to solve that problem for him and his stores. The solution he developed, oneVIEW, was a robust data aggregation and reporting tool that allowed Bruce to have access to real-time data for all of his stores. This provided a distinct competitive advantage by allowing him to make both strategic and tactical decisions in a way he never could before.
When sharing the concept with his peers, the summary of the response he received was along these lines, “How can I get my hands on that?” And that’s when OneDataSource was founded.
Over 20 years later, we have two home-grown solutions in the market. oneVIEW continues to allow multi-unit, multi-brand quick-service franchisees to keep their operations lean while scaling. In 2016, we continued our focus on developing solutions based on the needs of our customers when we launched onePAY – an end-to-end intelligent accounts payable solution.
OneDataSource’s solutions are now utilized in over 14,000 units and by 30-plus national brands.