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 …
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Moneyball for Restaurants. It ’s Here. On Your Tablets and iPads. Part III
Here’s part three, the final installment, of the Moneyball article. Part one was posted on Monday, click here to read. Part two was posted on Wednesday, click here to read. Make no mistake, daily line checks and temp logs are important. But they are not the only thing that a restaurant manager should be looking …
Moneyball for Restaurants. It ’s Here. On Your Tablets and iPads. Part II
Here’s part two of the Moneyball blog. Part one was posted on Monday, click here to read part one if you haven’t already. SMART Pre-Shift Inspection Protocol™ is a checklist system, not unlike the pre-flight checklists that pilots run through to ensure safe operations. Except that the restaurant data that’s captured is not viewed in …
Moneyball for Restaurants. It ’s Here. On Your Tablets and iPads. – Part I
Ever wish there were a “Moneyball approach ” to managing multi-location restaurants? It would be a business model where we would field dozens of “scouts ” who could fan out across multiple locations, logging in data, observing and recording “in-game activity, ” and making note of even the smallest thing … like the fact that the day the dumpster was overflowing, the location sold 23 fewer …
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). …
Restaurant Tech Restocked For Tomorrow And Beyond
Here’s a great article from TechCrunch on technology in the restaurant industry. A major focus of this article is on POS systems. Mobile POS systems are moving in on long time dominant systems such as Aloha and MICROS. It seems that mobile POS is the future. Either having guests swipe their own cards at the …