Predictive analytics helps Chicago prioritize restaurant inspections

Found a really cool article on how the city of Chicago teamed up with the Civic Consulting Alliance and researchers from Allstate Insurance’s Quantitative Research & Analytics Department to put together a predictive model using 311 calls, previous inspections, permits, and other data points to identify high risk restaurants.  Here is what I found most …

Operations Data Use Cases Finale

In yesterday’s post, Operations Data Use Cases. We discussed two Ops Data use cases and how Ops Data could be used to make better decisions, drive better operations, and run more profitable restaurants.  In Today’s blog post, we are going to discuss one more use case and draw some conclusions. Line Pars Do you check that your …

Operations Data Use Cases

In yesterday’s post, What is Operations Data. We discussed the importance of Operations Data (Ops Data) and how it could be used to make better decisions, drive better operations, and run more profitable restaurants.  In Today’s blog post, we are going to discuss more Ops Data use cases. Is your manager any good? The GM of a …

What is Operations Data?

Since we started OpsAnalitica we have been talking about Operations Data(Ops Data) and how powerful it is and it dawned on me last week that we haven’t taken the time to define Operations Data for our readers.  This is an oversight on our part but one that I hope to correct in this week’s blogs. Here …

The Importance of Line Checks

I recently stumbled upon a great blog post written by George Barton entitled: “Line Checks: Why So Important?”.  To view the original post on Nightclub.com click here.  Here are the points he makes that I felt were top notch. All scheduled managers during all shifts should participate in conducting line checks. This is an on-going …

“Moneyball approach ” to managing multi-location restaurants

The question is: Which data? What things should our “Moneyball scouts ” be looking at? That’s where SMART Pre-Shift Inspection Protocols come into play. With the SMART Pre-Shift Inspection Protocol, you can leverage your workforce to collect data, which will let you draw correlations between operations, sales, and costs. That will help you determine your shortest path to …

What are SMART Pre-shift Inspections?

At OpsAnalitica, we are big believers that conducting consistent daily inspections drives better operations, safer restaurants, and increases profitability.  We are such big believers we have developed our pre-shift inspection methodology, the SMART Pre-Shift Inspection.  We will be hosting a 30-minute webinar on SMART Pre-shift inspections on Tuesday July 14th at 3:00 pm central time. Click …