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News: Texas Roadhouse, Inc. Selects EthicsPoint for Hotline/Helpline and Issue and Event Management Solution
Popular restaurant company deploys EthicsPoint to offer hotline/helpline system
to employees and to increase organizational management of risk and compliance
issues.
Portland, Ore. – January 16, 2008 – EthicsPoint, Inc. announced today that Texas
Roadhouse, Inc. (Nasdaq: TXRH), a full-service restaurant concept, has chosen
EthicsPoint’s Issue and Event Manager to help manage its current human
resources, governance, and compliance initiatives. Assuring that all employee
issues are consistently managed, regardless of whether they arise through the
employee helpline, support center team, or regional management structure,
supports the Texas Roadhouse goal to improve employee relations and better
manage the challenges associated with operating over 280 locations in 44 states.
“The EthicsPoint system will allow us to mitigate risks throughout the
company and unify the reporting process across all departments, ensuring that
reported issues receive effective and consistent resolution,” said Mark Simpson,
senior director of Legendary People at Texas Roadhouse.
“Texas Roadhouse
is one of over a hundred hospitality brands that have chosen EthicsPoint,” said
Stephen
Molen, senior account manager to the hospitality market for EthicsPoint.
“Clients who use our reporting system and on-demand Issue and Event Management
application are looking for improved data intake and awareness, as well as
flexible workflow templates that relate to the issues that challenge the
restaurant and hospitality business.”
EthicsPoint’s application is
delivered as Software-as-a-Service and is designed to support a wide variety of
industries and disciplines. EthicsPoint’s multi-tenant structure provides a
single system for capturing, managing, and resolving a wide variety of
incidents. The result is the opportunity to better confront risks and the
ability to effectively integrate Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)
activities into one cohesive initiative.
About Texas
Roadhouse
Based in Louisville, Kentucky, Texas Roadhouse opened its
doors in 1993. In just 14 years, the company has grown to more than 280
locations in 44 states. In 2006, readers of a national magazine voted Texas
Roadhouse as the top concept in the Pub/Grill category, and Forbes magazine
ranked the company as one of the 200 Best Small Companies. For more information
visit www.texasroadhouse.com.
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