# How Southern Rock Restaurants uses Paradox

**$840k**: “saving $840k annually”

As published on [paradox.ai](https://www.paradox.ai/case-studies/southern-rock). Captured by usedby on 2026-10-30.

- Company: [Southern Rock Restaurants](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/southern-rock-restaurants.md)
- Tool: [Paradox](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/paradox.md)
- Teams: Recruiting

## The use case: how Southern Rock Restaurants deploys Paradox

Southern Rock, a franchise group operating over 150 McAlister's Deli locations, uses Paradox's Conversational ATS, an AI assistant named Savannah, to automate hiring and capture more applicants. This allowed the group to lower its job advertising spend.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Paradox and Southern Rock Restaurants, not ours.

> Southern Rock used to spend $65K a month on Indeed, but only received \<1K applicants in return. With Savannah, they're receiving 42K applicants a month, while only spending $6K — saving $840k annually.

- **95%**: “Southern Rock is seeing a 95% application completion rate with Savannah.”
- **42K**: “With Savannah, they're receiving 42K applicants a month”

## Other companies using Paradox

- [7-Eleven](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/7-eleven.md) — Confirmed
- [AAA](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/aaa.md) — Confirmed
- [Ace Hardware](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/ace-hardware.md) — Confirmed
- [Advantage Solutions](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/advantage-solutions.md) — Confirmed
- [Altice USA](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/altice-usa.md) — Confirmed
- [American Tire Distributors](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/american-tire-distributors.md) — Confirmed

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-30.

- Checked: the figure $840k is printed word for word on the page, near the name of Southern Rock Restaurants.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Southern Rock Restaurants.
- Checked: each number in our summary is printed on the page.
- Checked: Southern Rock Restaurants uses Paradox. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-30.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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Source: https://www.usedby.ai/case-studies/southern-rock-restaurants-paradox · How we check: https://www.usedby.ai/methodology