Below is the audio version of our very popular blog, The Only Way to Sustainably Grow Restaurant Sales is Through Better Operations. Subscribe to our podcast Order Up – The Restaurant Ops Show on SoundCloud, iTunes, Stitcher, and Tunein.
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Audio Blog – Interview with Ryan Gromfin The Restaurant Boss
The first Order Up – The Restaurant Ops Show interview is with The Restaurant Boss, Ryan Gromfin. Ryan has vast experience in the industry and helps thousands of restaurant operators on a daily basis run better restaurants. He’s a great interview. Check it out below. Subscribe to our podcast on the popular services: SoundCloud, iTunes, …
Audio Blog – 5 Tips to Writing Better Line Checks
Below is the audio version of our popular blog, 5 Tips to Writing Better Line Checks. Subscribe to our podcast Order Up – The Restaurant Ops Show on iTunes, Stitcher, and Tunein.
Introduction to Order Up – The Restaurant Ops Show
We are very excited to announce the release of our podcast, Order Up – The Restaurant Ops Show. Click below to listen to a quick introduction to the podcast and what you can expect. Subscribe on any of the popular podcast sites.
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
Pencil Whipping Happens
Let’s talk about the art of Pencil Whipping. Here’s the “official” definition from Wiktionary: Verb pencil whip (third-person singular simple present pencil whips, present participle pencil whipping, simple past and past participle pencil whipped) (idiomatic) To approve a document without actually knowing or reviewing what it is that is being approved. (idiomatic) To complete a …