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Feds Subpoena Chipotle’s Documentation
The Denver-based chain was served with another subpoena on Jan. 28 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California requiring Chipotle to produce documents and information about the company’s practices at all restaurants system wide. click here to read full article I don’t think you have to be a legal genius to see …
E-coli, Norovirus, Food Safety, and Checklist Resources
Part of our responsibility is to provide you with content and tools to help you run your business. This blog post will contain links to other resources that we have found on E-coli, Norovirus, and General Food Safety issues. Â If you know of some other great tools, please add them in the comments and we’ll …
Food Safety Concerns Among Consumers Increase
Just this week I came across the above graphic and an article out of QSR Mazazine citing a national study that showed 74% of consumers expect better food safety. The same study also found “that while a slight majority (53 percent) of U.S. consumers say that their level of concern about food safety has stayed …
How Checklist Tags Help Reduce Food Cost
Question and response tagging. Sounds great doesn’t it? Well… What is it?  Ok let’s take a look at what question and response tagging is and what it means to your checklists and operations data. It is hugely beneficial and saves you one of your most precious resources. Time. And we all know what time is.  …
Chipotle’s Woes Could Happen to Any of Us
A couple of years ago I met with a Chipotle Director to show him the Inspector app of that time.  My hope going into the meeting was that he would have been so blown away that he would have walked us into the VP of Ops office.  He didn’t, full disclaimer, he wasn’t officially speaking …
Inspection, Managerial and Custom Reports
We have spent all of 2015 to get to this point; our data warehouse is up and running, and we are releasing our first set of managerial reports. Let me explain how reports work in the OpsAnalitica platform. We have three types of reports: Inspection, Managerial and Custom: Inspection Reports: consist of summary views of …
Due Diligence and Due Care for Restaurant Managers
I believe that the hospitality industry should adopt Due Diligence and Due Care as management concepts that we fully embrace and implement into our business processes. Â Due Diligence and Due Care are words associated with investing, and contracts. In my last position working in cyber security, those terms were defined as: Due Diligence: Identifying …
Tough Year for Chipotle
It’s been a tough year for Chipotle. From pork supplier issues to a salmonella outbreak in Minnesota, a norovirus issue in California, and now the latest e coli outbreak in the pacific northwest closing some 43 locations. Now you can’t blame all of these issues on Chipotle. The pork supplier was a case of Chipotle …
Free Management by Exception Webinar
We would like to invite you to our Running Better Restaurants in Less Time webinar, on 11/5/2015 at 3:00 pm Central, click here to register. This webinar is going to be packed full of best practices around managing your restaurants by exception. Management By Exception (MBE):  is a practice where only significant deviations from set standards, ex: unsafe temperatures …