McDonald’s has been a huge topic in the industry this year with their dismal financial performance, commitments to changing their food supply and raising the minimum wage at the corporate owned stores. Nation’s Restaurant News posted an article online following McDonald’s earnings call. Here are some of the highlights from the article: New CEO Easterbrook …
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New guidelines require calorie count for food and drinks
An article from WIVB 4 in Buffalo highlights the upcoming federal requirements to post calorie counts on drink and food menus. The federal requirements only target restaurants and bars with more than 20 locations. The restaurant/bar owners quoted in the article don’t feel that it will affect their business negatively. They feel that most people …
Spending at Restaurants Tops Grocery Stores for First Time
For the first time since the commerce department started tracking this stat in 1992 consumers have been spending more in restaurants than they have in grocery stores. This happened in March of this year. Again more promising news for the restaurant industry. Dailyfinance.com sites that “experts” believe it’s a combination of the sign of consumer …
Are consumers rejecting giant restaurant chains?
McDonald’s has been in the news a lot lately between their slugging financials and the most recently announced pay increase. This article from Nation’s Restaurant News examines the possible reasons for the sluggish performance of 4 of the top 5 restaurant chains; McDonald’s, Subway, Wendy’s, and Burger King. Burger King is the only one of the …
Restaurant Inspections May Get an Overhaul
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 …
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 …
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 …