Another city, San Angelo, TX, may be moving to the letter grading system that has become so popular lately. San Angelo Live reported that they are looking at moving from the current demerit system to the letter grade instead in order to make it easier for consumers to understand. The letter grading system requires establishments …
Erik Tversland
Report: Industry may be entering new cycle of growth
We’ll tag on to yesterday’s blog with another article from Nation’s Restaurant News about the current state of the restaurant industry. This report is from TDn2K (Transforming Data into Knowledge). I’ll copy the full article below, but here are some of the highlights that I found interesting: Same-store sales rose 2.8 percent during the first …
Report: Restaurants primed for growth in 2015
Today we are highlighting a report by AlixPartners that was featured in Nation’s Restaurant News on the state of the industry and the outlook for 2015. As with most reports recently there’s good news for the restaurant industry. But what I found most interesting about the report were the findings around technology. You may or …
Secrets to Self Inspection by Sysco – Part II
Here is part two of the Sysco article from yesterday around implementing a self inspection model. Click here to check out part one. This part of the article highlights the idea of using local resources that are available to you through your local health departments. For example: Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation, for …
Secrets to Self Inspection by Sysco
Today we are going to highlight part one of a two part article by Sysco on Self Inspections. We at OpsAnalitica of course believe in and preach the self inspection model. It just makes sense to inspect daily for a number of reasons: You need to be ready every day for the health inspector to …
McDonald’s CEO: Why we’re raising wages
You had to know that this was coming. Once Walmart committed to raising wages it’s only a matter of time before others have to follow suit in order to remain competitive in attracting employees as well as public perception. Walmart employs roughly 500,000 people so when they unilaterally raise their base wage it’s going to …
Restaurant workforce demographics are shifting
No real surprises in this article from the Missouri Restaurant Association with the way the economy performed between 2007 and 2014. Here are some of the stats from the article about the shifting demographics in the restaurant association: At its peak in the late 1970s, roughly 58 percent of 16-to-19-year-olds were in the labor force …
Proposed grading system concerns some restaurateurs
Posting health inspection letter grades in the front window or on the door of the restaurant seems to be picking up steam everywhere. California has been doing it for years. I don’t think it’ll be long before this is the norm. From a consumer perspective it’s great. There are a bunch of apps that you …
Technology that puts the ‘fast’ into fast casual
It seems as if quick service and fast casual brands will be relying more on technology to help cut labor costs as drastic minimum wage and health care changes are on the way. Since their employees don’t rely on tips this makes sense (although there are changes in the works for tipped employees as well). …
Millennial eating demands are splitting in two
I have seen and read a bunch of articles about millennials in the workplace and how to manage them etc. But this is the first I have seen about their eating habits and it’s potential effect on the restaurant business. The Indy Star had an article on this topic that was very interesting. Here are …