Great article in the June 2015 issue of Entrepreneur Magazine, Why Mulit-Unit Franchise Ownership is now the Norm.  These are the points that I found most interesting: Multi-unit franchisees—those who can buy the territory for several units and build them over a relatively short period of time. Over the past decade, there has been a …
Tommy Yionoulis
I've been in the restaurant industry for most of my adult life. I have a BSBA from University of Denver Hotel Restaurant school and an MBA from the same. When I wasn't working in restaurants I was either doing stand-up comedy, for 10 years, or large enterprise software consulting. I'm currently the Managing Director of OpsAnalitica and our Inspector platform was originally conceived when I worked for one of the largest sandwich franchisors in the country. You can reach out to me through LinkedIn.
Grub Hub Can Be Too Much for Some Restaurants
The Wall Street Journal wrote a great article on the new restaurant business model of delivery only, entitled GrubHub Looks Beyond the Sit-Down Restaurant for Growth. Here are the points that we found most interesting in this article: GrubHub expects its base of more than 5 million home diners to place more online orders for food …
OpsAnalitica Supports Standardized Health Inspection Data (LIVES)
We are in complete support of the LIVES program.  Here are some of the key points from the article: LIVES stands for Local Inspector Value Entry Specification. LIVES will standardize health inspection scores across the country on a scale from 0 to 100. Click here to watch a video on SOCRATA Right now, health authorities operate …
Hypothetical: Taco Bell vs. Chipotle
In an NRN article today, see below, Lisa Jennings discusses Taco Bell’s move to cut artificial ingredients from its menu. Here is the hypothetical: Â Imagine our world where the largest fast food restaurant chains in our country are all 100% organic, GMO-free, no preservatives, colors, or artificial flavors. Â So now you have these giant chains …
Yelp Wrap-up
On May 7th, we posted a blog What’s the deal with Yelp, the purpose of the blog was to get feedback from the restaurant community on some of the rumors we had heard about Yelp. We post our blogs through multiple social media outlets, and a lot of them allow comments on the post. …
FOH Readiness Checklist
I’m sure you have experienced this a million times…. Â I’m going to share a story from my days at bartending in a very busy mountain town. Â Spring break was one of the busiest times of the year. Â Two-hour waits for dinner and up to an hour wait for lunch. No real break between …
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 …
Cool Stuff From the NRA Show
We are having a great time at the NRA Show in Chicago. Below is a picture of the booth with the food service robot. Â The cost is 25K, and it can be trained to do one function. It was cool and just imagine where this tech will be in a couple of years. Below …
Making the Most of Your 30-Day Free Trial – Part 2
This is part II, click here to read part I. Real World Testing(RWT) is the time to start doing more configuration and adding real data to your test. Keep it to a minimum at the beginning because you aren’t sure if you are going to be using this app in 25 days. If it’s a …
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 …