“PC Load Letter? What the F*#@ does that mean?” – Michael Bolton Every day, every shift we conduct our line checks and pre-shift inspections with the tried and true tools that have been available to us forever: a clipboard, pen, and paper. It’s great! We accomplish our goal of documenting this data, but where …
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New Data in Restaurants
There’s a great article in Fast Casual By Dipock Das, VP of Technology at HotSchedules about Big Data in restaurants and how slow the industry has been to adopt new technology. But when they do adopt, and they will, it’s going to change the industry. It’s happening now. Just being at the NRA Show you can see …
Making the Most of Your 30-Day Free Trial – Part 1
As more and more cloud apps are being designed for business consumers, the 30-Day Free Trial is becoming more and more common in the corporate setting. OpsAnalitica, my company, offers a 30-Day Free Trial for our Inspector App. The Free Trial is not a new concept; it is one of the best sales models for …
Bad Manager vs. Good Manager Part II
Restaurant Managers Without Line Check Technology Are Just “Putting Out Fires With Gasoline!” “Lexi” Without A Line-Check App vs. “Lexi” With a Line Check App, With OpsAnalitica to the Rescue. Don’t be embarrassed if the person we describe sounds exactly like you. Actually, it may be you, but not for long. You won’t have to read far …
Bad Manager vs Good Manager Part I
Restaurant Managers Without Line Check Technology Are Just “Putting Out Fires With Gasoline!” “Lexi” Without A Line-Check App vs. “Lexi” With a Line Check App, With OpsAnalitica to the Rescue. Don’t be embarrassed if the person we describe sounds exactly like you. Actually, it may be you, but not for long. You won’t have to read far …
“Fair work week” efforts a problem for retail, soon a problem for restaurants
Although sales numbers appear to remain positive for the restaurant industry, other challenges continue to mount. On top of the rising minimum wage restaurants are now faced with potential scheduling regulations as well. NRN.com contributor, Joe Kefauver, posted an article summarizing the regulations that are currently being proposed in some fashion in 10 states and …
Panera 2.0
An article in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, “From iPad to plate, technology speeding up food at Bread Co.”, highlights some of the early findings of some of the technology improvements being made, known as Panera 2.0. Here in St. Louis Panera is still called St. Louis Bread Company or Bread Co for short. They …
What is the deal with Yelp?
We posted a blog two days ago, The Ugly Truth about Dirty Restaurants and Yelp, and it has generated some very passionate comments about Yelp and the people who were apparently sickened by the restaurant. The original article that the blog is based off is from the Food Poison Journal. I don’t own a restaurant …
Front of the House Conference
Today’s blog is a short one. I was doing some research today and I stumbled upon this small conference that I had never heard about, the Welcome Conference. This article below from Grubstreet.com, summarizes the author’s Top 10 take away’s from last year’s conference. I was bummed to find out that this year’s conference in …
The Ugly Truth about Dirty Restaurants and Yelp
Would you eat in a restaurant if you knew that the week before they got several people sick? You would be a fool if you did. Yelp is going from a review site to the first line of defense in foodborne illness outbreaks. We’ve been very supportive of Yelp posting health inspection scores on their …