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Reducing Food Costs and Running Safer Restaurants with Checklists
Back in February we did a webinar with Ryan Gromfin, The Restaurant Boss, entitled Reducing Food Costs and Running Safer Restaurants. This is a straight training webinar on how to use restaurant checklists to run better operations and increase profits. Ryan is a cool dude and we kept it light with real world stories and …
5 Tips to Writing Better Restaurant Line Checks
Every restaurant should be doing some form of line check for each meal period. The reason you do line checks is to ensure that your food is safe and ready to serve to your guests. Line checks allow you to catch your mistakes before your guests do, which reduces food comps. They also allow you …
How to Implement Management by Checklist with follow-up in your Restaurants
Management by checklist is exactly what you think it is; it is the art of managing your restaurants by using short, focused checklists to ensure that the most important operational details aren’t missed on a shift-by-shift restaurant-by-restaurant basis. The practice is modeled after airplane pilots and their use of checklists. Checklists work, plain and simple. …
The Only Way to Sustainably Grow Your Restaurant’s Sales is through Better Operations
It’s time to return to basics and focus on what works for long-term sustainable sales growth, which is better operations. Nobody wants to hear better operations because they are either delusional about the current state of their operations, or they don’t want to put in the hard work and discipline of focusing on running better operations. …
The Value of Operations Data at Your Fingertips
Operations data are the data points that are generated every meal period in a restaurant that directly affect sales and profitability. Let’s break it down: Marketing activities remind your customers that you still exist. People come in to eat at your restaurant. You serve them food (operations) They pay and leave either happy or sad, …
Maybe You Shouldn’t Do Checklists
How could paper checklists be bad? Paper checklists are bad because people pencil whip them or lie on them. We recently conducted a survey of over 100 restaurant owners and managers. 94% of respondents believed that their teams weren’t completing their checklists accurately. Which raises the question; why would a sane person have their team …
The Restaurant Industry’s Dirty Little Secret
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 …
What does the Ford Pinto have to do with restaurants?
Do you remember the Ford Pinto Case from the 70’s? Ford Pintos had a flaw in their design, and if they were hit in a rear-end collision at a speed greater than 20 mph the fuel tank could rupture, and there could be a fire. Unfortunately, several people were killed in accidents because of this …
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 …