Thanks to the Missouri Restaurant Association weekly newsletter we’re able to share these tips for thawing and holding food. Thawing -Refrigeration: Thaw TCS food at 41 ̊Fahrenheit (5 ̊Celsius) or lower to limit pathogen growth. Plan ahead when thawing large items, such as turkeys. They can take several days to defrost. -Microwave: You can safely thaw food …
Inspections
How to Work with Your Health Inspector
How to Drive Consistent Daily Execution
There are two ways that you can drive consistent daily execution in your operations: You can nag and set reminders for your staff to do things, basically micromanage every aspect of your operations. You can hire and train the right staff then integrate them into the operations, teach them why you do certain things and …
Always Be Prepared for a Health Inspection with these 9 Tips
9 Tips to Prepare for a Health Inspection from Erik Tversland
Due Care, What Does it Mean in Restaurants
Due Care – What does it mean in restaurants? from Erik Tversland
Predictive analytics helps Chicago prioritize restaurant inspections
Found a really cool article on how the city of Chicago teamed up with the Civic Consulting Alliance and researchers from Allstate Insurance’s Quantitative Research & Analytics Department to put together a predictive model using 311 calls, previous inspections, permits, and other data points to identify high risk restaurants. Here is what I found most …
The challenge with growing operations
There has been a lot of great press this year about the restaurant industry’s economic impact from the number of employees to the estimated $709 billion in revenue in 2015. Growing your operations is a great accomplishment. You have succeeded and now it’s time to grow and expand. All you have to do …
Do third party inspection programs drive consistent daily execution?
It’s hard to believe that having a 3rd party inspection service show up twice a year, maybe once per quarter (we very rarely see this), has a big impact on the daily execution of operations. Anyone can be great for a day or a shift with some notice. But to be great every shift …
Early Job Loss Results From Seattle
We have been actively following the minimum wage hike in Seattle very closely at OpsAnalitica. We have written four blogs about it this year. We found this article from the American Enterprise Institutes that discusses restaurant job losses in Seattle since the beginning of 2015, it is only 3 paragraphs so I encourage you to read …
Running Restaurants is Getting Harder – Part 2
To read part one click here Food trucks are another segment of the industry that have prospered from wireless technology. Until recently it was incredibly expensive to take mobile credit card payments. Now it’s comparable to hardwired credit card payments. Mobile technology has made it easier for food trucks to service customers. It used to …