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 …
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Face the Facts: It’s a Drag and Drop World – Part III
Here’s part III of the series, the final installment. To catch up on part I click here, part II click here. How to Craft a Workflow Strategy Seek out a check-list driven workflow app provider that has restaurant specific knowledge. Examine the pedigree of the management of the app provider. The restaurant business is perhaps …
Face the Facts: It’s a Drag and Drop World – Part II
Here’s part II of this series. Part I was posted yesterday. If you haven’t read part I yet click here and read it first. Signs you are ready for Workflow Management Apps The obvious signs that you’re ready for workflow management apps are: Your operations are unprofitable You can’t identify where your problems originate You …
Don’t Market Yourself Off A Cliff
Two of the most iconic moments in film history are Thelma & Louise driving off that cliff and Butch and Sundance charging out the door to take on the Bolivian army. They are scenes of people choosing their destruction. There are restaurant owners and managers that do the same thing every day. We wrote a …
Face the Facts: It’s a Drag and Drop World – Part I
You either get dragged (or drag yourself) into restaurant management and accountability technology… Or be forced to drop out for running an unprofitable business. There is no middle ground. That’s for one simple reason: Perhaps 15 years ago it was possible to run a business without a web page, but today it is not. You …
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 …
Share Your Thoughts On The Industry
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Visibility: What Does It Mean For Multi-Unit Operators
Visibility: What does it mean for Multi-Unit Operators from Erik Tversland
An Amazing Story About Checklists
Wow! What an amazing write up about checklists in Restaurant Hospitality. It’s an older article from 2012, but it’s timeless. There’s no better use case for implementing checklists than what the author lays out in this article. He talks about taking the unknown out of making sure that your staff is getting things done and …