The Story:
Mid-2005, Lagos, Nigeria. Kazeem(not real
name), the owner of a restaurant and bar operation
that grosses over a million naira in monthly sales
turnover approached his bank for funding towards
expansion. He had maintained an account with the
bank for years, and the bank manager knew him
well.
Unfortunately, after some meetings,
the bank was forced to turn down Kazeem's request.
The reason? He could not supply adequate and comprehensive
records of daily sales and expenses covering the ten
years his business had been running. Most of the records
were on paper, disorganised, and therefore not easily
retrievable. Luckily, it was not all bad. They told
him to get his records in order, and then return with
them for discussions. Kazeem spoke with Wale(real
name) his accountant/auditor - who had repeatedly
advised this line of action for years - about the
most cost-effective way to do what the bank requested.
Wale recommended that an external developer
be engaged to develop a custom application - and suggested
a self-taught Excel spreadsheet solutions developer*
he knew, having seen work the latter had done for
other clients at a fraction of the cost of other software
solutions.
15th July 2005:
The first meeting was held with the developer*.
15th September
2005: The manager of that restaurant(who had
NEVER attended a single day's computer training prior
to the time) was already confidently using the "Restaurant
and Bar Operations Manager" Excel VB application
developed to address that need - on a daily basis.
How The Restaurant
& Bar Manager Works: Click
here to learn how the program works.
*The
developer = Tayo
Solagbade
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