Great American Cookies, a chain of independently owned and operated franchised stores that specialize in gourmet cookies, today announced it has deployed the NCR Silver cloud-based point-of-sale platform in 89 of its franchise stores nationwide, with additional stores on the horizon this year.

"With the other solutions we were looking at, we realized we'd have to pay for tools we didn't need and that we wouldn’t get the full functionality out of the ones we did need," David Kaiser, vice president of Great American Cookies, said in a statement. "In the end, NCR Silver delivered a higher-value solution that fit our individual stores' needs perfectly."

Great American Cookies said NCR Silver helped it expand the company's offsite catering capabilities employees can quickly ring up orders and even access the back office via an iPhone or tablet.

The NCR Silver platform also integrates with other applications such as CimpleBox, a Web-based business and brand management platform that includes enhanced sales reporting and forecasting, recipe and menu management, inventory tracking and employee management, which are all designed to help franchisors and retailers operate more efficiently, according to the announcement.

"From a technology standpoint, NCR Silver provides us with all of our reporting requirements, great software like CimpleBox and a quick checkout experience," Kaiser said. "Creating a favorable user experience is key as we're constantly striving to make our employees' lives easier and our customer experience even better."