In this two part series of the OrderUp Show Tommy walks us through the rise and fall of the largest sandwich chain in the world. He also gives his thoughts on what he would do to save the chain. He’s got experience in this area as he was involved with a very similar situation in …
Restaurant Industry
The Risks and the Rewards of Franchising
Anyone who has followed the OpsAnalitica blog knows that I worked at Quiznos right before their implosion in 08, 09. I had two jobs at Quiznos: I was the manager of the Franchise Assistance Program and then I was promoted to be the RSC Ops Leader when Franchise Assistance went away. During my time as …
OpsAnalitica is a Food Safety and Ops Management Platform
Do you know what a Food Safety and Ops Management platform is? It is a platform that your field teams use to run the restaurants from a daily operations and food safety perspective. These platforms are relatively new, we have been around 5 years, so they don’t have as much name recognition as some of …
Another Avoidable Food Safety Incident
Red Robin is in the news for a completely avoidable food safety situation. To date there have been 3 confirmed cases of E. Coli at one of their Colorado locations. One adult and two children have been infected. Two of the three have been hospitalized. A link to the full NRN article is below, but …
The Reason Systems Like OpsAnalitica Exist
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …