International food services company Famous Brands has appointed Turrito Networks to manage the entire wide area network (WAN) serving its South African manufacturing plants, distribution centres and head office. The Famous Brands franchise network includes Steers, Wimpy, Debonairs Pizza, Mugg & Bean, Tashas and Wakaberry, among many others. "Our network is the basis of all the IT services we deliver," says Famous Brands Group IT Executive Chris Botha. "Our franchisees place hundreds of orders daily and if we can't process invoices, we can't deliver products. Botha says Famous Brands decided to move from a dual-vendor to a single-vendor network strategy, partly to reduce complexity and partly to prepare for further development. "Over the past two years we've been working towards establishing a single WAN that handles both failover and primary links.