There is no medical cure for Norovirus; if you contract it you simply have to ride it out. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t anything you can do as a multi-unit restaurant manager to protect your restaurants, brand, and profits. With Norovirus, the best offense is going to be a good defense. Here are some …
Hospitality Industry
Pencil Whipping Happens
Let’s talk about the art of Pencil Whipping. Here’s the “official” definition from Wiktionary: Verb pencil whip ‎(third-person singular simple present pencil whips, present participle pencil whipping, simple past and past participle pencil whipped) (idiomatic) To approve a document without actually knowing or reviewing what it is that is being approved. (idiomatic) To complete a …
OpsAnalitica’s Managed Service Offering
There are two things that I know to be absolutely true: If you use the OpsAnalitica Inspector to automate your checklists – YOUR RESTAURANTS WILL BE SAFER! Restaurant managers don’t have time to take on additional projects no matter how important they are. That is why we have created our Managed Service License, the first in the industry. …
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 …
Choose Restaurant Specific Software Vendors
A prospective client was evaluating the OpsAnalitica Platform against a competitor’s inspection platform recently. Â Even though on the surface we are very similar in that we allow people to conduct restaurant inspections through an app, when you look deeper we are worlds apart. Â You see this other platform is a 3rd party inspection audit platform …
Restaurant Checklists are like Condoms
Restaurant checklists are like condoms; nobody wants to use them, but they work. I recently read the Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande, and he articulated perfectly everything that we have been preaching here at OpsAnalitica and so much more. Â Please enjoy some paraphrased quotes from the Checklist Manifesto. 1. Here, then, is our situation at …
Flavorless Pizza
Last weekend I ordered pizza from a new place in our neighborhood that we had never tried. Â We had friends over, and they swear by this place, so we gave them a shot. The pizza was flavorless. Â My friend who orders from them regularly commented on how the pizza wasn’t up to par. Â My guess …
7 Tips for Faster Better Line Checks
Pre-shift line checks are a requirement for running a successful restaurant. Â Line checks provide management the ability to inspect their restaurant before the meal period to: Ensure that they are stocked properly, Pars The right food is on the line, FIFO That everything is safe to serve, Temperature Control The correct serving ladles and spoons …
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.  …