Second Cup Selects MICROS's Affordable Enterprise Solution

COLUMBIA, Md., May 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- MICROS Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRS), a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality and retail industries, is pleased to announce that Canada's largest specialty cafe franchisor and second largest retailer of specialty coffee, The Second Cup Ltd ("Second Cup"), has selected MICROS as its exclusive and preferred restaurant technology provider.  Nearly 170 locations are installed with the MICROS e7 restaurant point-of-sale (POS) system and mymicros.net restaurant enterprise system.  The roll-out will continue with an additional 130 locations over the next few months.

What began as a shopping mall kiosk has expanded to a franchise with over 350 cafes featuring a full product line of 25 premium coffees, specialty beverages, complementary foods, and merchandise items.  To help manage the orders of thousands of daily guests, Second Cup required an intuitive restaurant POS system that was affordable for the cafes, easy to install to minimize the disruption to business flow, yet customizable to reflect Second Cup's specific requirements.

True value can be found in MICROS e7's seamless interface to the mymicros.net business intelligence system's enterprise maintenance services.  This enterprise management solution allows Second Cup to easily facilitate control throughout the enterprise and implement changes in menu items, prices, taxes, and other POS configurations.  These changes are often not anticipated and require a quick turnaround time, but implementing them is an extremely time consuming task; this results in costly mistakes that are an inconvenient to the guest, result in lost revenue, or both.  mymicros.net streamlines this business process.

"MICROS e7 with enterprise management and reporting is the ideal solution for our franchise network," stated Robert Masson, Chief Financial Officer, Second Cup.  "We value the lower total cost of ownership e7 affords us and appreciate the benefits of the flexibility of MICROS's solution in allowing us room to expand our cafe technology solution as our operations grow."

"We are delighted to be selected as the exclusive technology provider for Second Cup," stated Ed Rothenberg, Vice President, Restaurant Sales and Strategy, MICROS.  "MICROS's e7 and mymicros.net will provide Second Cup with unprecedented ease of managing the enterprise and we look forward to continuing the rollout."

About Second Cup®

Founded in 1975, Second Cup® is Canada's largest specialty coffee franchisor, operating more than 350 cafes across the country.  As a proudly Canadian company, Second Cup celebrates its franchisees' local ownership, and prioritizes the support of local businesses through daily deliveries from neighbourhood partners.  Committed to caring for every guest, all 5,000 associates of Second Cup are Trusted Coffee Experts™ who sell 1,000,000 coffee and tea beverages every week.  For more information, please visit www.secondcup.com.

For further information, please contact Robert Masson, Chief Financial Officer, (905) 362-1824 or [email protected].

About MICROS Systems, Inc.

MICROS Systems, Inc. provides enterprise applications for the hospitality and retail industries worldwide. Over 330,000 MICROS systems are currently installed in table and quick service restaurants, hotels, motels, casinos, leisure and entertainment, and retail operations in more than 130 countries, and on all seven continents. In addition, MICROS provides property management systems, central reservation and customer information solutions under the brand MICROS-Fidelio for more than 26,000 hotels worldwide, as well as point-of-sale, loss prevention, and cross-channel functionality through its MICROS-Retail division for more than 90,000 retail stores worldwide. MICROS stock is traded through NASDAQ under the symbol MCRS.

For more information on MICROS and its advanced information technology solutions for the hospitality industry, please contact Louise Casamento, Vice President of Marketing at (443) 285-8144 or (866) 287-4736. You can also visit the MICROS website at www.micros.com or send an email to [email protected].

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