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| But the deal flow is the highest, but what I think is exciting today is the strategic fit, both from a price perspective and a product perspective is great, which is why we ramped up cost so much, which is we're pushing hard to get these done |
| Back office in Data Central, again delivered a solid quarter |
| Said differently, our revenue should continue to grow while our product unit economics get better with scale and our G&A cost stay tight as revenue absorbs the cost we've taken the hit on in '23 |
| What I like about our setup today is that I think we continue growing at our current rates with our existing core business, improve our margins as our emerging low-margin product scale and continues to run the business on a closely managed OpEx base |
| But even without that and assuming conservative numbers there, I think we feel really good about the growth maintaining and growing |
| Operator Solutions growth is being driven by increased win rates at Brink, and we believe accelerated market acceptance of cloud solutions and a pivoted way from legacy providers |
| This deal validates our Tier one enterprise reach and sets us up nicely to win traditional Tier one projects with similar scope |
| This gives me great confidence that there is more discrete from our expense base without risking our growth, making the setup for '24 exciting |
| We continue to be optimistic of our hardware business as we launch new products to address demands from legacy hardware customers as well as attach hardware sales within our expanding software customer base |
| ARPU increased more than 8% from last year's Q4, and we're seeing an accelerated pipeline as we close our attached Data Central with Brink sales |
| Our ability to integrate deeply into their existing ecosystems and also provide solutions to vendor consolidation, data integrity and enterprise scale positions us nicely for continued market share growth |
| Contract backlog associated with our government business continues to be strong and appropriately funded |
| Burger King will be a strong revenue driver for PAR over the next two years and when fully implemented -- and will deliver upwards of $23 million of annualized subscription revenue |
| The improvement in margin year-over-year was substantially driven by improved inventory management and price increases |
| We feel confident in executing against Burger King's time lines and once we have visibility from the customer, we report back to the market |
| While payments is nested with an Operator Solutions business, this product line has some strong highlights in the quarter |
| Through the back half of 2023, we ramped up our corporate development efforts and believe we will be able to deliver accretive and cash-generating M&A in short order |
| But I think we feel very good about it and I think we've got more wins to come that we'll announce |
| We saw us achieve our highest gross processing volume annual run rate of $2.1 billion |
| Our focus of demonstrating value for our price with improved operational efficiency has allowed us to improve hardware margins in the second half of the year and finish 2023 with full year hardware margins of 22% |
| Brands are increasingly benefiting from operational efficiencies, cost savings and increased customer engagement by leveraging PAR Pay across the operator and engagement suite of products |
| In Q4, our Apple Wallet loyalty solution won silver in the category of Most Innovative Enterprise Product of the Year from Best in Biz Awards, a distinction that gives us confidence in the aggressive growth plans we have |
| This coupled with payment innovations such as pay-at-the-table and SMS text link ensures that PAR is executing against the mantra of best-in-class plus better together |
| Looking forward, as we natively embed Par Pay to drive, differentiate and unique experiences, it's leading to the strongest pipeline we've ever had |
| Today, we are still a relatively small business with less than $150 million of ARR, but we believe we have the foundation to do much more and the team is excited to execute on it |
| We anticipate continued positive momentum in customer adoption |
| And so I think what's exciting is the growth we've had in '23 didn't come from any logos we've announced the last three to 6 months |
| In the quarter, Punchh continued with strong execution in business revitalization evidenced by the wins we recently announced that Bob Evans, Insomnia Cookies and most recently, BRINK POS |
| In total, we signed 12 new logos in Q4 and over 40 fiscal year '23 continuing to further our position of best-in-class and market dominance and loyalty and offers |
| So we feel really good about the pricing of Brink, the premium product is getting rewarded from premium products and deals, and that will continue |
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| Historically, words like consolidation and bundling have had negative compensations, and I think for the right reasons |
| Can we get at the end of the year? I think so unless Burger King decides to not roll out as -- do all the rollout in '25, which is extremely unlikely |
| Hardware revenue in the quarter was $24.4 million, a decrease of $5.2 million or 17.5% from the $29.6 million reported in the prior year |
| Adjusted EBITDA for the fourth quarter of 2023 was a loss of $4.5 million compared to an adjusted EBITDA loss of $2.8 million for the same period in 2022, driven by reduction in professional service margin and increased R&D investments in advance of our large customer ramp, partially offset by increased margin contribution from subscription services |
| The decrease in margin was driven by decreases in margins from implementation services and hardware service repair |
| Professional services revenue was reported at $12.6 million, a decrease of $0.9 million or 6.5% from the $13.5 million reported in the prior year |
| MENU has been the major headwind because you've got such a major cost without really any revenue |
| Our headwind in cost is almost exclusively within our menu business unit, which drove the majority of our loss in fiscal year '23, hiding that Brink, Punchh and Data Central grew their revenue with almost no net new headcount |
| It's the MENU where we have the major loss |
| The decrease in margin is driven by absorbing the initial investment into the Burger King rollout while also absorbing the initial growth of MENU and PAR payment services, which are both early-stage products |
| But just like any other large organization, I think, they understand that we don't want to do everything back in because it will put a lot of stress on everybody |
| The excitement internally is palpable, and we think our success will only be limited by our ambition |
| We made these investments MENU, which has obviously been a headwind to the cost |
| I do apologize for the difficulties this morning |
| This come down in Q4 as we announced the signing of Burger King, by far our largest Brink and now MENU customer, with our products to be rolled out across our 7,000-plus stores in North America |
| Net loss for the fourth quarter of 2023 was $18.6 million or $0.67 loss per share compared to a net loss of $13.5 million or $0.50 loss per share reported for the same period in 2022 |
| And then I think the exciting part I like to try to mention on the call, which is we've absorbed so much cost from menu was the vast majority of our loss in '23 |
| As of December 2023, backlog was $326 million, a decrease of 2% compared to $333.9 million as of December 2022 |
| It was also the lowest churn quarter all year with less than 0.5% gross trend |
| Net R&D was $14.5 million, a decrease of $0.4 million from the $14.9 million recorded in Q4 2022 |
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