In this episode, we interview Tom Missios, a restaurant consultant specialing in helping his client’s implement systems and controls, menu engineering and social media. We talk about Tom’s career and what he is seeing happening with his clients. If you would like to check out Tom’s website, go to erestaurantconsulting.ca/
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Wayne Humphrey COO of Larkburger – Ready for Growth
This week we interview Wayne Humphrey, COO of Larkburger. Wayne speaks about how Larkburger is ready to start growing out of the state of Colorado. Wayne also speaks about food consistency across the industry and why it is so hit or miss. If you live in Colorado or Overland Park KS shortly, please check out …
What is Pokemon Go and Can I Make Money Off It
Ron Ruggless posted a great article in NRN this week about how you can pay money to purchase 30-minute Lure Models and install them by a PokeStop location, which could be close to your restaurants, this will entice Pokemon Go players to come to your area. If you are interested in learning how to purchase and run …
3 Benefits of Labor Management & a Scheduling Strategy
Please enjoy this blog from our great friends at Ameego, the restaurant scheduling and labor management platform. Aside from temperature compliance and food comps, what are some of the biggest ongoing challenges for restaurant managers? If your mind envisioned next month’s blank schedule calendar, the binder of handwritten time-off requests or the stack of month-end …
Alerting, Forced Comments, and Task Management in Checklists
A lot of our prospective clients ask us if we can force comments, create alerts or tasks when there are safety violations on their checklists.  We don’t offer these features, not for technical reasons, but for liability and management reasons.  I’m going to use this blog to explain our thinking on this subject. Alerts and tasks sound …
E-coli, Norovirus, Food Safety, and Checklist Resources
Part of our responsibility is to provide you with content and tools to help you run your business. This blog post will contain links to other resources that we have found on E-coli, Norovirus, and General Food Safety issues. Â If you know of some other great tools, please add them in the comments and we’ll …
6 Types of Food Comps and How You Can Reduce Food Costs
I was recently talking to one of our clients about the OpsAnalitica Inspector, and he was telling me how it helps their company reduce Food Costs. See if this sounds familiar, their managers have always been required to do pre-shift line checks. Even before they had implemented OpsAnalitica they did their line checks like most …
Running Restaurants is Getting Harder – Part 3
To read part two click here Labor cost is another issue that is going to affect restaurant operations. We can’t just look at labor as bodies and do we have enough. We are going to have to redesign our entire operations strategy to minimize labor and operating complexity so we can operate with fewer people …
Running Restaurants is Getting Harder – Part 2
To read part one click here Food trucks are another segment of the industry that have prospered from wireless technology. Until recently it was incredibly expensive to take mobile credit card payments. Now it’s comparable to hardwired credit card payments. Mobile technology has made it easier for food trucks to service customers. It used to …
Running Restaurants is Getting Harder – Part 1
If you are a restaurant manager responsible for one location or thousands of locations, then you need to keep reading. Is running restaurants getting harder? Profitability is being squeezed from every direction. From $15 hr minimum wages, increased competition, commodity prices, and technology to name a few. When I came up in the industry in …