Newport Beach, CA - May 13, 2008 - Birch Street Systems, a leading provider of hosted hospitality management software solutions, today announced that its growth continues with the expansion of their products portfolio. Increasingly, new and existing customers are demanding capabilities in their management software solutions that include the ability to automate, measure and control spend for both single and multi-property portfolios.

Birch Street answered that call when they brought to market a focus on automating and optimizing multi-variable business processes. From single-site solutions to global enterprise offerings, Birch Street offers a broad range of modules including; eProcurement and RFQ; budget tracking and workflow; recipe management, liquor monitoring and menu engineering; inventory and receiving; AP automation; advanced analytics; and FF&E/capital projects management.

“We understand the hospitality industry. We know if you can’t measure it, you can’t control it, so we’ve developed solutions that help customers to optimize their businesses by injecting automation into their processes.” said Douglas Sanborn, President and CEO of Birch Street. “The efficiency benefits are tremendous. Not having a comprehensive, predictable view of corporate spend leads to a loss of control. We want to support our customers and help them to avoid this loss.”