I’ve been very blessed in all aspects of my life, one of the biggest blessings I’ve received is that I’ve traveled and I’ve stayed at some of the best hotels, resorts, and sailed on the nicest cruise ships in the world. This last weekend, my wife got us a room at the new Gaylord of …
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Intelligent Checklists: What are they and why you should care
Basically, when you can’t intelligently customize your checklist to your locations, you pay more money for worse execution and mediocre data. Before you dismiss this as just pennies of cost. The average restaurant management team is supposed to be completing about 2 to 2.5 hours of managerial, food safety, and restaurant readiness checklists per day. …
Top 10 Food Service Management Solution Provider
We are extremely honored to be recognized by Food & Beverage Technology Review as a Top 10 Food Service Management Solution Provider of 2019. The team at OpsAnalitica works tirelessly day in and day out to develop a best in class solution that is easy to use, packed with value, for a price that is …
Chipotle Still Doesn’t Have a Food Safety Culture
There were two interesting articles about Chipotle last week: MMA announcer Jimmy Smith says he found ‘full-sized staples’ in Chipotle burrito Chipotle’s stock is having its best quarter ever—here’s how to play it Chipotle’s stock is getting back up to where it was before their food safety issues in 2015 and 2016. It has been …
Digital Checklists are More Important Than Ever To Minimize the Effects of High Employee Turnover
I’m going to do my best to keep this blog short and sweet. Here is the deal: Employee Turnover is at an all-time high but employee tenure is the more important measure to understand. Tenure is how long our employees are staying in their jobs. Because the average employee is staying such a short amount …
OpsAnalitica Beats Paper Checklists and the Red Book
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 …
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 …