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, …
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Maybe You Shouldn’t Do Checklists
How could paper checklists be bad? Â Paper checklists are bad because people pencil whip them or lie on them. Â We recently conducted a survey of over 100 restaurant owners and managers. Â 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 …
What does the Ford Pinto have to do with restaurants?
Do you remember the Ford Pinto Case from the 70’s? Â 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. Â Unfortunately, several people were killed in accidents because of this …
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 …