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7 Tips for Faster Better Line Checks
Pre-shift line checks are a requirement for running a successful restaurant. Line checks provide management the ability to inspect their restaurant before the meal period to: Ensure that they are stocked properly, Pars The right food is on the line, FIFO That everything is safe to serve, Temperature Control The correct serving ladles and spoons …
Chipotle’s Woes Could Happen to Any of Us
A couple of years ago I met with a Chipotle Director to show him the Inspector app of that time. My hope going into the meeting was that he would have been so blown away that he would have walked us into the VP of Ops office. He didn’t, full disclaimer, he wasn’t officially speaking …
Inspection, Managerial and Custom Reports
We have spent all of 2015 to get to this point; our data warehouse is up and running, and we are releasing our first set of managerial reports. Let me explain how reports work in the OpsAnalitica platform. We have three types of reports: Inspection, Managerial and Custom: Inspection Reports: consist of summary views of …
5 Reasons Why You Should Automate Checklists
We have recently received more proof from our clients that automating checklists and conducting manager follow-up are increasing restaurant profits. Our customers see a 1/2 to 1% reduction in food cost when their restaurants conduct daily line checks and follow-up with the OpsAnalitica platform. Automation and apps add value that’s why they’re everywhere. They make …
Tough Year for Chipotle
It’s been a tough year for Chipotle. From pork supplier issues to a salmonella outbreak in Minnesota, a norovirus issue in California, and now the latest e coli outbreak in the pacific northwest closing some 43 locations. Now you can’t blame all of these issues on Chipotle. The pork supplier was a case of Chipotle …
Free Management by Exception Webinar
We would like to invite you to our Running Better Restaurants in Less Time webinar, on 11/5/2015 at 3:00 pm Central, click here to register. This webinar is going to be packed full of best practices around managing your restaurants by exception. Management By Exception (MBE): is a practice where only significant deviations from set standards, ex: unsafe temperatures …
Apps and Big Data: How They Are Changing The World of Multi-Location Restaurants – Part II
Here is part two. Part one was posted on Monday, click here to read part one if you haven’t read it already. If sales drop, for seemingly no reason, Big Data can look at customer reporting sites like Yelp through an automatic data harvest to see if bad scores are driving away people. Without Big …
Apps and Big Data: How They Are Changing The World of Multi-Location Restaurants – Part I
You’ve surely seen the hopeful ads about for how Big Data can help cure cancer and stop deadly attacks, but you know what Big Data is really ideal for? Multi-unit restaurants. That’s right. Oh sure, we’ll need Big Data to cure diseases and save the world, but Big Data excels at process optimization and workflow …
Visibility: What Does It Mean For Multi-Unit Operators
Visibility: What does it mean for Multi-Unit Operators from Erik Tversland