At OpsAnalitica, we were the first to preach daily checklists and their benefits for running better and safer daily operations, improving visibility and managerial accountability using an app. While our competitors were preaching auditing your way to restaurant health, we knew that audits were incapable of driving behavior change at the restaurant level. As we …
Tommy Yionoulis
I've been in the restaurant industry for most of my adult life. I have a BSBA from University of Denver Hotel Restaurant school and an MBA from the same. When I wasn't working in restaurants I was either doing stand-up comedy, for 10 years, or large enterprise software consulting. I'm currently the Managing Director of OpsAnalitica and our Inspector platform was originally conceived when I worked for one of the largest sandwich franchisors in the country. You can reach out to me through LinkedIn.
Jim Short – 30 Years in the Pizza Hut Organization
In this installment, we speak with industry veteran, and real veteran, Jim Short. Jim has been in the industry for over 30 years, most of that time working for Pizza Hut franchises. He started in the kitchen washing dishes and has moved up to Facilities Manager for a large multi-unit operator. Check out Jim’s Interview …
The System Your Ops Team Knows It Needs but Doesn’t Want
There is a better way to run multi-unit restaurants, managing an entire chain using daily checklist software in real-time, which provides your Ops Teams with store level visibility and managerial accountability. Plus when restaurants are held accountable to following your procedures, they run better, safer and more profitable locations. Restaurant companies spend millions of dollars …
Google FINDER and the Power of Data to make Restaurants Safer
Are you aware of Google’s FINDER algorithm? My guess is not yet but you will hear more about it in the future. Check out this article from The Daily Mail UK . Google has created a machine learning algorithm named FINDER, Foodborne Illness Detector in Real Time, that is capable of pairing search terms like …
The Number 1 Factor For Reducing Critical Food Safety Violations is…
The number one factor for reducing critical food safety violations is… Implementing a Food Safety Management System (FSMS) with daily Active Managerial Control (AMC) The following is from the FDA REPORT ON THE OCCURRENCE OF FOODBORNE ILLNESS RISK FACTORS IN FAST FOOD AND FULL-SERVICE RESTAURANTS, 2013-2014 Prepared by the FDA National Retail Food Team 2018 …
Real-time Collaboration is the Key to Getting Your Checklists Done Every Shift
Real-time Collaboration is a feature of the OpsAnalitica Platform, it allows multiple team members to work on a checklist at the same time as well as allowing you to start a checklist on one device and finish it on another. It is probably the most important feature for driving checklist compliance that we have released …
An Open Letter to the FDA & the National Restaurant Association in regards to Digital Record Keeping
Digital Record Keeping In Restaurants is Coming It has been pretty widely known in the restaurant industry over the last couple of years that digital record keeping is going to be mandated for restaurants in the near future, it just makes sense. The biggest bellwether of this impending change was FSMA, the Food Safety Modernization …
High Turnover = Lower Ops Consistency
The number one issue facing restaurant operators over the last couple of year, as told to us by restauranteurs at all levels in the business, is staffing and turnover. It is so hard to find good people to work in your restaurant and to keep them for any length of time. I’m sure you are …
Everyone has a Letter Grade in Their Window Now
If you haven’t heard yet, Yelp is now displaying health inspection scores on your restaurant page. Which means, every restaurant in the country could have a health inspection letter grade in their online window. Make sure you read the whole blog as I put together a list of things all restaurant operators should start doing …
Shift Readiness Audio Blog
In this blog post, we recorded an audio podcast, of our shift readiness blog. This discusses shift readiness as tasks but also as a philosophy. To read the original blog,