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Matchbox Charlottesville: An officer and a pizza joint

Maurice Kelly is a former military officer and reserve naval intelligence officer who decided in 2017 to open a pizza restaurant. After 18 months in business, he was approached by Matchbox, a rapidly expanding chain of fast-casual restaurants, to be their first franchisee. But working with a payroll and HR provider that was slow and unresponsive made it harder to get ahead.

I just enter the hours and tips for every employee and RUN takes care of the rest. If anyone is ever looking at how do you build the most optimal web app interface, ADP has done it.

Maurice Kelly

Maurice Kelly, Owner
Matchbox Charlottesville

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How ADP helped:

  • RUN Powered by ADP® (RUN) reduced the time spent on payroll, and access to ZipRecruiter made it easy to build a great team.

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