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 …
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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,
Lack of Team Accountability is Stealing your Profits
If you’re not holding your team accountable for running the restaurant your way, then your employees are running it their way. SHOCKER, they are doing what they think is best (or sometimes easiest for them) and not necessarily what is best for the restaurant. They are typically less experienced so what can you expect? Over the …
Shift Readiness Separates Great Restaurants from Good Enough Restaurants
We are going to do a deep dive into the concept of restaurant shift readiness. Shift readiness is making sure that your restaurant is 100% ready for each meal period from a: cleanliness, stock (FOH/BOH), food taste, freshness, and safety perspective so that you can make the most of your sales opportunity each shift in …
Increase Employee Productivity
With the 100% turnover rate in the industry and some of the lowest nationwide unemployment in years, according to Modern Restaurant Management’s Success Survey 60% of restauranteurs indicate that finding and retaining employees was the top area of opportunity in the industry. #3 was attracting/retaining customers. #4 on the survey was optimizing speed and efficiency to …
Order Up Podcast – Interview with Michael Pullman
Scheduling doesn’t have to suck. I know that the government is trying to make it as horrible as possible when it comes to labor laws. Listen to this interview with Michael Pullman with Zuus Dynamic Scheduling to learn more about scheduling software and how it can help you navigate the new labor laws and save you …
Using Daily Checklists on the OpsAnaltiica Platform as Field Team Force Multiplier
The traditional field structure in multi-unit restaurant organizations starts at the restaurant level and goes to an Area Mgr or Director, eventually rolling up to a VP of Ops and COO. For bigger organizations, there is obviously going to be more layers of management between the store and top people. The person with the hardest …