More responsibility and awareness might be coming for restaurant managers based on information coming out of the 10th Annual Nation’s Restaurant News Food Safety Symposium. At the symposium future additions to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Model Food Code were speculated in detail by food safety experts including Miriam Eisenberg of EcoSure. The Food …
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5 Reasons Why You Should Automate Checklists
We have recently received more proof from our clients that automating checklists and conducting manager follow-up are increasing restaurant profits.  Our customers see a 1/2 to 1% reduction in food cost when their restaurants conduct daily line checks and  follow-up with the OpsAnalitica platform. Automation and apps add value that’s why they’re everywhere. They make …
6 Types of Food Comps and How You Can Reduce Food Costs
I was recently talking to one of our clients about the OpsAnalitica Inspector, and he was telling me how it helps their company reduce Food Costs. See if this sounds familiar, their managers have always been required to do pre-shift line checks. Even before they had implemented OpsAnalitica they did their line checks like most …
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 …
Face the Facts: It’s a Drag and Drop World – Part III
Here’s part III of the series, the final installment. To catch up on part I click here, part II click here. How to Craft a Workflow Strategy Seek out a check-list driven workflow app provider that has restaurant specific knowledge. Examine the pedigree of the management of the app provider. The restaurant business is perhaps …
Face the Facts: It’s a Drag and Drop World – Part II
Here’s part II of this series. Part I was posted yesterday. If you haven’t read part I yet click here and read it first. Signs you are ready for Workflow Management Apps The obvious signs that you’re ready for workflow management apps are: Your operations are unprofitable You can’t identify where your problems originate You …
Don’t Market Yourself Off A Cliff
Two of the most iconic moments in film history are Thelma & Louise driving off that cliff and Butch and Sundance charging out the door to take on the Bolivian army. They are scenes of people choosing their destruction. There are restaurant owners and managers that do the same thing every day. We wrote a …
Face the Facts: It’s a Drag and Drop World – Part I
You either get dragged (or drag yourself) into restaurant management and accountability technology… Or be forced to drop out for running an unprofitable business. There is no middle ground. That’s for one simple reason: Perhaps 15 years ago it was possible to run a business without a web page, but today it is not. You …
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