The FDA has stated that it would like restaurants to Pre-Screen Employees by taking their temperatures and asking them questions about their potential exposure to COVID-19. For more info check out our blog: The FDA Has Stated that you Should Take Employee Temperatures Before Their Shift California has starting releasing guidance on new required procedures …
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Take-Out/Drive-Thru ScoreCard
I was speaking with a buddy of mine yesterday, he is a Franchise Business Consultant for a national burger chain. He mentioned to me that some of his franchisee’s don’t want him in the restaurants right now. The franchisees don’t want their above store leaders in their restaurants because they don’t want to risk exposing …
Document, Document, Document, everything you do around COVID-19
If you don’t document it, it didn’t happen. The FDA has recently stated that restaurants should start Pre-Screening their employees and taking their temperatures to determine if the employee is safe to work that shift. This is an update to current ADA procedures Section 501. This guidance was updated because of the COVID-19 pandemic. I …
Reduce Ops Expenses without Sacrificing Customer Satisfaction
Cutting Costs and Optimizing Field Teams The only way we are going to make it through this COVID-19 crisis is to simultaneously cut costs while pivoting a large portion of our resources to maximize our take-out, drive-thru and delivery sales channels. If we can do this quickly, we can adapt to the lower sales during …
Should I Start Taking My Employees Temperatures?
Since the WHO and CDC have declared that we are in the midst of a COVID-19 Pandemic, the EEOC has allowed the taking of employee temperatures. I recently was a panelist on a webinar hosted by the World Health Congress & The Validation Institute and I was able to discuss the taking of employee temperatures …
Free COVID-19 Tools From OpsAnalitica
Updated with new tools on 4/16/20 We have created Free Tools for restaurant operators to help them manage their restaurants and decrease risk during the COVID-19 crisis. As with all OpsAnalitica Processes, these are 100% customizable for your business. To get these free tools, click on the chat bot in the bottom right hand corner …
New Front Of The House Sanitation Standards In A Social Distancing World
On April 1, 2020, we hosted a webinar about the New FOH changes that are going to be required for restaurants in a COVID-19 world. Below is the full presentation about the changes that are coming for restaurants. This presentation takes you through 3 main steps in mitigating risk and increasing consumer confidence. Conducting a …
New FDA Guidance on Face Masks for Restaurant Employees
The FDA has updated their guidance on restaurant employees wearing face masks while working. I’m going to post the link and the direct text from the FDA’s site below to save you some time. If you want to learn more about how to wear the masks and keep them clean, the 3rd bullet point below …
Area/District Managers Should Stop Visiting Restaurants During the COVID-19 Crisis
I’m writing this in early April of 2020 and I’m setting the stage of the current environment so readers of this blog in the future will understand the situation here in the US at this time. 2/3 + of the US is on mandatory social distancing, stay at home isolation through 4/30/20, restaurants are only …