We’ll tag on to yesterday’s blog with another article from Nation’s Restaurant News about the current state of the restaurant industry. This report is from TDn2K (Transforming Data into Knowledge). I’ll copy the full article below, but here are some of the highlights that I found interesting: Same-store sales rose 2.8 percent during the first …
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Report: Restaurants primed for growth in 2015
Today we are highlighting a report by AlixPartners that was featured in Nation’s Restaurant News on the state of the industry and the outlook for 2015. As with most reports recently there’s good news for the restaurant industry. But what I found most interesting about the report were the findings around technology. You may or …
Secrets to Self Inspection by Sysco – Part II
Here is part two of the Sysco article from yesterday around implementing a self inspection model. Click here to check out part one. This part of the article highlights the idea of using local resources that are available to you through your local health departments. For example: Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation, for …
Secrets to Self Inspection by Sysco
Today we are going to highlight part one of a two part article by Sysco on Self Inspections. We at OpsAnalitica of course believe in and preach the self inspection model. It just makes sense to inspect daily for a number of reasons: You need to be ready every day for the health inspector to …
Moneyball for Restaurants. It ’s Here. On Your Tablets and iPads. Part III
Here’s part three, the final installment, of the Moneyball article. Part one was posted on Monday, click here to read. Part two was posted on Wednesday, click here to read. Make no mistake, daily line checks and temp logs are important. But they are not the only thing that a restaurant manager should be looking …
McDonald’s CEO: Why we’re raising wages
You had to know that this was coming. Once Walmart committed to raising wages it’s only a matter of time before others have to follow suit in order to remain competitive in attracting employees as well as public perception. Walmart employs roughly 500,000 people so when they unilaterally raise their base wage it’s going to …
Moneyball for Restaurants. It ’s Here. On Your Tablets and iPads. Part II
Here’s part two of the Moneyball blog. Part one was posted on Monday, click here to read part one if you haven’t already. SMART Pre-Shift Inspection Protocol™ is a checklist system, not unlike the pre-flight checklists that pilots run through to ensure safe operations. Except that the restaurant data that’s captured is not viewed in …
Dozens sickened at banquet
So probably not the best banquet to have a foodborne illness outbreak at considering the attendees. With 100 of the 250 attendees being lawyers and law students this is not going to go away anytime soon. This article from Philly.com will be forever and will pop up decades from now if you Google search “foodborne illness …
Restaurant workforce demographics are shifting
No real surprises in this article from the Missouri Restaurant Association with the way the economy performed between 2007 and 2014. Here are some of the stats from the article about the shifting demographics in the restaurant association: At its peak in the late 1970s, roughly 58 percent of 16-to-19-year-olds were in the labor force …
Proposed grading system concerns some restaurateurs
Posting health inspection letter grades in the front window or on the door of the restaurant seems to be picking up steam everywhere. California has been doing it for years. I don’t think it’ll be long before this is the norm. From a consumer perspective it’s great. There are a bunch of apps that you …