“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 …
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Yelp Wrap-up
On May 7th, we posted a blog What’s the deal with Yelp, the purpose of the blog was to get feedback from the restaurant community on some of the rumors we had heard about Yelp. We post our blogs through multiple social media outlets, and a lot of them allow comments on the post. …
Credit Card Liability Shift & the Effect on Restauranteurs
Come October 1, 2015 there are big changes coming to the payment industry. The US is the last major market that is still using the old swipe and sign cards. The familiar card technology is blamed for the fact that the US accounts for nearly half of the world’s credit card fraud while only accounting for …
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 …
Cool Stuff From the NRA Show
We are having a great time at the NRA Show in Chicago. Below is a picture of the booth with the food service robot. The cost is 25K, and it can be trained to do one function. It was cool and just imagine where this tech will be in a couple of years. Below …
Making the Most of Your 30-Day Free Trial – Part 2
This is part II, click here to read part I. Real World Testing(RWT) is the time to start doing more configuration and adding real data to your test. Keep it to a minimum at the beginning because you aren’t sure if you are going to be using this app in 25 days. If it’s a …
Making the Most of Your 30-Day Free Trial – Part 1
As more and more cloud apps are being designed for business consumers, the 30-Day Free Trial is becoming more and more common in the corporate setting. OpsAnalitica, my company, offers a 30-Day Free Trial for our Inspector App. The Free Trial is not a new concept; it is one of the best sales models for …
Bad Manager vs. Good Manager Part II
Restaurant Managers Without Line Check Technology Are Just “Putting Out Fires With Gasoline!” “Lexi” Without A Line-Check App vs. “Lexi” With a Line Check App, With OpsAnalitica to the Rescue. Don’t be embarrassed if the person we describe sounds exactly like you. Actually, it may be you, but not for long. You won’t have to read far …
Bad Manager vs Good Manager Part I
Restaurant Managers Without Line Check Technology Are Just “Putting Out Fires With Gasoline!” “Lexi” Without A Line-Check App vs. “Lexi” With a Line Check App, With OpsAnalitica to the Rescue. Don’t be embarrassed if the person we describe sounds exactly like you. Actually, it may be you, but not for long. You won’t have to read far …
Panera 2.0
An article in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, “From iPad to plate, technology speeding up food at Bread Co.”, highlights some of the early findings of some of the technology improvements being made, known as Panera 2.0. Here in St. Louis Panera is still called St. Louis Bread Company or Bread Co for short. They …