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HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 9, 2000

ReservationSource Inc., a developer of operations management software and real-time online reservations capabilities for restaurants and golf courses, today announced it has signed four distributor agreements, broadening the company's product supplier network and entry into new markets. Prior to the agreements, the company's primary market has been Texas, with a recent alliance with iDine.com announced Sept. 26 expanding its market reach into Chicago and Atlanta.

BluPlate.com Inc., CLARITY, Logical Solutions Inc. and Southern Hospitality Systems Inc. will sell and provide customer service for select ReservationSource products, including the Web-enabled software restaurant management system and pro shop and course management system. The restaurant product features customer relationship management (CRM) and table/floor management for restaurants, while the golf product provides CRM, tee sheet and cart/caddy management for golf pro shops. Both offerings enable consumers to book and ReservationSource business clients to accept real-time, online reservations through the ReservationSource.com and client Web sites.

BluPlate.com, an aggregator of products, technologies and services directly from manufacturers and direct service providers to restaurants and golf courses, will market and support both ReservationSource products in the Pacific Northwest. ReservationSource's restaurant clients will have access to the BluPlate supplier procurement and communications network.

"After performing much diligence on the entire landscape of reservation management systems, we found the many functionalities, ease of use and scalability of ReservationSource's system to be the most compelling in the industry. It is truly a full Web-enabled CRM solution for restaurant operators at the point of sale," said Roger Fernandez, executive vice president and COO for Bluplate.com. "We have made it a practice to seek out 'up and coming,' best-of-breed providers in every category of services we plan to offer to the foodservice operator, and ReservationSource certainly fits our strategy in this respect."

CLARITY, a hospitality solutions provider offering services and technologies to the hospitality industry, will market and support the restaurant product throughout Eastern United States and the golf product primarily in North Carolina.

"CLARITY seeks to bring superior products to the hospitality industry, and ReservationSource has the best-in-class technology for this market," said Pete Mendenhall, president for CLARITY. "They have the only product that allows you to plug into a regular phone line and be instantly Webitized for reservations. When you couple that capability with customer relationship management and the products' other features, you provide the business with a powerful tool for serving its customers."

Logical Solutions, a developer of custom golf shop and country club management software, will market and support a co-branded golf product throughout the country. ReservationSource recently integrated its golf product with Logical Solutions' Golf Club Manager Software (GCM), blending the ReservationSource system with GCM's point of sale, tournament module, handicapping, gift certificate and credit book, and accounting capabilities to provide a complete automated management package for golf pro shops and country clubs. The fully integrated product will be rolled out as LSI2000.

"ReservationSource's golf product is the perfect complement to our product, allowing us to offer an all-inclusive package to golf courses throughout the country," said Larry Smith, founder of Logical Solutions. "Like Logical Solutions, ReservationSource works extremely hard to make its products a success for its customers and brings that same commitment to our alliance."

Southern Hospitality Systems, the southwest distributor of SQUiRREL(JM1)(R) point-of-sale technology for the foodservice industry, will market and support the restaurant product in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. The company will also sell the system through its relationships with other distributors throughout the United States.

"There is a tremendous need for restaurants to find efficient ways to manage reservations and to track customer information," said Christopher Sebes, COO for Southern Hospitality. "ReservationSource's restaurant system is one of the best ways I've seen for capturing good customer information needed to effectively market to customers."

"Our new partners have compared our products with those of our competitors and selected ReservationSource because we have the best technology in the restaurant and golf industries," said Corbin Robertson III, founder and CEO for ReservationSource. "These alliances provide the resources and support to help establish ReservationSource as the leading provider of customer management and Internet reservation solutions in the market. With these relationships and similar ones in the works, our company is poised to grow tremendously. I am very excited about our future prospects."

About ReservationSource, Inc.

ReservationSource, Inc. is a privately held corporation established in 1999 and headquartered in Houston. The company is an emerging provider of Web-enabled yield and customer relationship management systems and software and integrated online reservation booking for small to medium businesses. ReservationSource currently serves the restaurant and golf industries and plans to expand into other markets. For more information, visit http://www.reservationsource.com.

About BluPlate.com, Inc.

BluPlate, headquartered in Redmond, Wash., aggregates products, technologies and services directly from manufacturers and direct service providers, distributing the appropriate solutions to its customers at, in most cases, lower cost than they could obtain independently. BluPlate also provides its BluePlate Network(SM), a proprietary hosted ASP procurement and communications platform that streamlines and manages the ability for restaurants, distributors and manufacturers to interact and conduct business with one another in real-time. BluPlate was founded in January 2000 and funded with seed capital from two InfoSpace (Nasdaq:INSP) executives and other angel investors. For more information, visit http://www.bluplate.com.

About CLARITY

Clarity, headquartered in Greenboro, North Carolina, is a Hospitality Solutions Provider (HSP) offering a wide range of services and technologies hospitality businesses use to succeed at the highest level. The company is the only HSP to look at the value of managed data within the hospitality industry to create a comprehensive approach to helping industry operators.

About Logical Solutions

Logical Solutions, headquartered in Carrollton, Texas, was formed in 1981 and has evolved into one of the premier golf shop management software solutions. More than 100 sites are currently active in the United States. Using nearly 20 years of input from golf professionals all over the country, the system has evolved into a customer software solution covering every facet of golf shop operations. The program modules include POS (inventory reduction rather than retail); a sophisticated Tournament module; Handicapping conforming to USGA standards; Gift Certificate and Credit Book; to a straight-forward Accounting module accommodating golf and country club direct billing.

About Southern Hospitality Services Inc. (SHS)

SHS is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and was incorporated in September 1992 with the mission of providing the premier systems and service solutions to the hospitality industry. SHS is the exclusive distributor of the SQUiRREL RMS for Texas and the number one distributor worldwide for SQUiRREL. The company's customer base continues to grow consistently throughout its six-year existence. Annual growth has never fallen below 40 percent, with a record increase in 1998 of 65 percent.

SHS's success and reputation is due to its company philosophy of providing the absolute best system solutions and unprecedented service levels available to the end user of its applications. SHS provides the solution, help and support necessary to maximize the benefits to its customers.

SOURCE: ReservationSource Inc.