The dirty little secret in the restaurant industry is that we know a lot of our restaurant safety-documentation is not completed accurately. Every day in restaurants across the country, restaurant managers are supposed to complete temperature logs, line checks, and other safety checks to ensure that they are operating safely. A lot of those logs …
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Fighting Norovirus with OpsAnalitica
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 …
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 …
Alerting, Forced Comments, and Task Management in Checklists
A lot of our prospective clients ask us if we can force comments, create alerts or tasks when there are safety violations on their checklists.  We don’t offer these features, not for technical reasons, but for liability and management reasons.  I’m going to use this blog to explain our thinking on this subject. Alerts and tasks sound …
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. …
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 …
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.  …
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 …
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 …