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	<richtext>&lt;h1 align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;ALPHASTAFF &amp;amp; FIREHOUSE SUBS &lt;br /&gt;IGNITE A SIZZLING PARTNERSHIP&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;h3 align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Sandwich Chain With Over 2500 Employees Sees Big Advantage &lt;br /&gt;In Human Resource Outsourcing Agreement&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p class="bodytext"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Boca Raton, FL &amp;ndash; June 14, 2005&lt;/strong&gt; -- AlphaStaff Group, Inc., a market leader in Human Resource Outsourcing (HRO) headquartered in Boca Raton, FL, and Firehouse Subs, a Jacksonville-based sub sandwich chain with franchises across the Southeastern United States, today publicly announced their HR Outsourcing and Co-Employment partnership. Firehouse Subs has entrusted AlphaStaff with payroll, benefits and human resource activities for the over 2500 employees that comprise their franchise system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;With the tremendous growth we have experienced over the past ten years, we needed a human resource and benefits partner that was both flexible and financially stable,&amp;quot; said Robin Sorensen, President and Co-Founder of Firehouse Subs. &amp;quot;AlphaStaff has a reputation for passionate attention to their clients, great technology integration, and accredited financial stability. They are also growing at a similar rate as our organization. We&amp;rsquo;re anticipating a long, mutually advantageous partnership with the folks at AlphaStaff.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since 1997, AlphaStaff has positioned itself to be the most flexible HRO in the industry, with a focus on both technology integration and hands-on customer service. So it was a combination of their ability to integrate services with the Firehouse Subs point-of-sale system, as well as the AlphaStaff process of training worksite employees and providing a more comprehensive benefits program for the individual franchisees of the sandwich chain that made this agreement happen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition, AlphaStaff is one of only 21 accredited members of the Employer Services Assurance Corporation (ESAC), ensuring ethical, financial and operational standards of excellence within the HRO industry. After working with other outsourcing firms for payroll and benefits over the last several years, it was AlphaStaff&amp;rsquo;s reputation for passionate customer attention and guaranteed financial integrity that attracted Firehouse Subs to this partnership.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;Firehouse Subs represents the kind of growing organization that AlphaStaff was founded to service,&amp;rdquo; said Jay Starkman, President of AlphaStaff. &amp;ldquo;Our goal is to help make our clients in the mid-market successful. Whether it&amp;rsquo;s through the seamless integration of IT, our flexible product offerings, or our personal approach, we want all of our clients to know that they have a partner in AlphaStaff that is committed to their success.&amp;rdquo; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="bodytext"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;About Firehouse Subs&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="bodytext"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Started just 10 years ago by two brothers, Robin and Chris Sorensen, two Jacksonville, Fla. firefighters, Firehouse Subs has grown like wildfire. From a single store in Jacksonville, Firehouse Subs will have 230 stores by the end of 2005, and more than 1,000 stores by the end of 2009. Each store has a firehouse theme, with fire memorabilia, boots, pictures of fires and fire equipment and even a hand-painted mural that includes local firefighting themes. The company&amp;rsquo;s goal: To be among the five top submarine sandwich chains in the nation.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</richtext>
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