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 …
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How Checklist Tags Help Reduce Food Cost
Question and response tagging. Sounds great doesn’t it? Well… What is it? Ok let’s take a look at what question and response tagging is and what it means to your checklists and operations data. It is hugely beneficial and saves you one of your most precious resources. Time. And we all know what time is. …
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 …
Checklists May Become An Integral Part Of The Food Code
More responsibility and awareness might be coming for restaurant managers based on information coming out of the 10th Annual Nation’s Restaurant News Food Safety Symposium. At the symposium future additions to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Model Food Code were speculated in detail by food safety experts including Miriam Eisenberg of EcoSure. The Food …
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 …
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 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 …