At OpsAnalitica, we are big believers that conducting consistent daily inspections drives better operations, safer restaurants, and increases profitability. We are such big believers we have developed our pre-shift inspection methodology, the SMART Pre-Shift Inspection. We will be hosting a 30-minute webinar on SMART Pre-shift inspections on Tuesday July 14th at 3:00 pm central time. Click …
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Inspect What You Expect
The only way to get the results that you want as a manager is to inspect what you expect. If you want consistent daily execution, you will have to inspect daily. Click here to download our Better Practices Guide to Self Inspecting I’ve heard that if you do something 13 times it becomes …
Supreme Court Ruling On Affordable Care Act
With the Supreme Court upholding the Affordable Care Act today the restaurant industry is still looking for some changes to be made as their situation is very different than most businesses. I’ll post a full article from nrn.com on the subject from today. The provisions in the act that cause concern for the restaurant industry …
Operations, Data, & Reporting in Restaurants Part III
Thank you for following this blog series on restaurant operations, data, and reporting. In Tuesday’s post, we discussed BOH data collection and what items you could be tracking that could help you improve operations and run more profitable businesses. To read Tuesday’s post click here. One last thought on BOH operations data collection. A lot …
Operations, Data, & Reporting in Restaurants Part II
Yesterday we explored the importance of operations data, different ways to capture operations data, and where it could be used to make better decisions. If you didn’t see, yesterday’s blog post clicks here. A quick summary of yesterday’s post, the restaurant industry needs to be collecting and analyzing operations data with the easily available register and …
Operations, Data, & Reporting in Restaurants
This week we are going to be doing a deep dive into restaurant operations, data, and reporting in the industry. We are going to be exploring areas of the restaurant business where operators could be collecting more data, what that data could tell them, and strategies to collect data. The restaurant industry as a whole …
Broken Windows Theory For Restaurants
I first heard of Broken Windows Theory in the book Freakonomics. A synopsis of the theory is that there are social norms and expectations of how things are supposed to be. When expectations aren’t met then society reacts poorly by lashing out. The example that is commonly cited is an empty building in a city, if …
Let’s take a look at your temp logs and line checks
Depending on where you operate, the first thing that the local health inspector will ask for when they show up randomly is something to the tune of “let’s take a look at your temp logs and line checks for the past month”. Depending on how organized your operations are this can be an easy …
What Happened to the Inspection Data?
“PC Load Letter? What the F*#@ does that mean?” – Michael Bolton Every day, every shift we conduct our line checks and pre-shift inspections with the tried and true tools that have been available to us forever: a clipboard, pen, and paper. It’s great! We accomplish our goal of documenting this data, but where …
New Data in Restaurants
There’s a great article in Fast Casual By Dipock Das, VP of Technology at HotSchedules about Big Data in restaurants and how slow the industry has been to adopt new technology. But when they do adopt, and they will, it’s going to change the industry. It’s happening now. Just being at the NRA Show you can see …