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NEW YORK - In a new payrollprocessing system that underscores the self-service orientation and convenience offered by Internet-based technologies, Automatic Data Processing Inc. is readying a test here of a Webbased platform that it expects will be favorably received by restaurant operators along with other small businesses.
Called EasyPayNet, the package will let companies use the Internet to "wire-in" their payroll and to access tax filing and benefits administration online. ADP, based in Roseland, NJ., now is piloting the system among a batch of existing customers but expects to make EasyPayNet available nationwide sometime next spring or summer.
"It sounds like a great idea," proclaimed Peter Abramson, president ot (Quadreign Management Corp., a three-unit Burger King franchisee based in New York. "We call in the numbers, which is convenient in and of itself. This could improve on that, but I'm not sure if I'd want to make the Internet available to store managers," he added.
According to ADP director of marketing Raul Villar, about 325,000 businesses fall into its emerging business services unit, which it defines as companies with 100 or fewer employees. And of that total, he estimated that approximately 10 percent of those customers, or about 32,500, are restaurant operators.
Keith Schmerber, general manager at Eccola, a full-service Italian restaurant in Parsipanny, NJ., is a current ADP customer who calls in payroll every week to process about 60 checks.
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