What are SMART Pre-shift Inspections?

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At OpsAnalitica, we are big believers that conducting consistent daily inspections drives better operations, safer restaurants, and increases profitability.  We are such big believers we have developed our pre-shift inspection methodology, the SMART Pre-Shift Inspection.  We will be hosting a 30-minute webinar on SMART Pre-shift inspections on Tuesday July 14th at 3:00 pm central time.

Click here to register for this FREE webinar

Here is an excerpt from our SMART Pre-Shift Training manual.

SMART is an acronym for the different categories that you should be focusing on in your pre-shift inspections.

  • S = Sanitation
  • M = Management Responsibilities
  • A = Accountability
  • R = Readiness for Guests
  • T = Temperatures

A SMART Pre-shift inspection will contain questions that take managers on a tour of their location and have

them focus on safety and readiness to serve guests. It should contain both FOH and BOH items, as well as,

items that you know are unique to the success of your operations.

The goal of conducting a SMART Pre-shift Inspection is to focus your managers on the critical success factors

of your business. To know that your operations are safe and ready to serve guests for that service period. The

act of walking around your location with a critical eye and focusing on the most important parts of your

business focus your manager’s on what is required to be successful, this is especially important for hospitality

manager’s because we are always on and almost always in front of customers.

 

All OpsAnalitica Clients get a copy of our SMART Pre-shift Inspection pre-loaded into their portal and our training manual when they sign-up for our service.  We also offer consulting services around helping you write your own SMART Pre-shift that is custom tailored to your unique operations.

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Tommy Yionoulis

I've been in the restaurant industry for most of my adult life. I have a BSBA from University of Denver Hotel Restaurant school and an MBA from the same. When I wasn't working in restaurants I was either doing stand-up comedy, for 10 years, or large enterprise software consulting. I'm currently the Managing Director of OpsAnalitica and our Inspector platform was originally conceived when I worked for one of the largest sandwich franchisors in the country. You can reach out to me through LinkedIn.

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1 Comment

  1. Dear sir,

    Please let me know how much this will cost?

    Regards/Tarek

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