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How to BOOst Operations with Ghost Kitchens, Skeleton Crews, and Spooky Seasonal Offerings
While ghost kitchens, skeleton crews, and pumpkin spice promotions may sound like something straight out of Hocus Pocus, as a multi-unit operator you...
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Female Operations Leaders: Reshaping the Future of OpsX in Restaurants, C-Stores, and Supermarkets
While men hold a majority of leadership positions in the foodservice industry— and the pandemic continues to amplify the biases women leaders have...
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6 Tips to Boost Operational Compliance in Your Stores
As a multi-unit operator, you expect your stores to complete certain activities and processes every day – meeting your brand standards, following food...
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How to Create a Culture of Coaching Between Field & Stores
Above-store leaders aspire to spend quality time with their store teams; sharing best practices, giving tips on how to improve, providing...
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How Teams Outside of Operations Benefit From an OpsX Platform
What do marketing, HR, maintenance, and other teams have to do with operations? A lot, actually. “Multi-unit operations” probably brings to mind...
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Driving Automation and IoT into Multi-Unit Operations
As operators increasingly invest in technology to improve operations, and ultimately customer experience, there’s a wealth of data captured by every...
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7 Simple Tips to Get More Out of Zenput
During our recent inaugural user conference, Zenput's Customer Support & Success team led two different sessions titled "10 Simple Tips to Get More...
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OpsX '21: What We Learned, Loved, & Look Forward To
We hosted our first-ever user conference, which you can still view on-demand here. We were thrilled to be joined by hundreds of customers, leaders...
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Upgrade to Zenput Temp Monitoring: Your Maintenance Team Will Thank You
A critical part of food safety at any given restaurant, convenience store, or grocery store is making sure that the food being served is stored at the...
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3 Ways Automation Is Improving Grocery Operations
2020 hurled us all into the unexpected. For businesses, this meant quickly finding newer, better, faster, and safer ways to operate. As a result, the...
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Grocery Operations: 7 Time Saving Tips to Improve Your Bottom Line
The topic of efficiency and time-savings in grocery operations is a tricky one – grocery stores just have so many moving people and pieces. Especially...
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Zenput OpsX ‘21: Where Operations Leaders Come Together
It’s time to come together. No, not necessarily to belt out the iconic namesake Beatles tune - but by all means, feel free to let your inner karaoke...
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How Operators Can Mitigate Product Shortages with Technology and Automation
The pandemic triggered a significant shift in consumer demand for food – more people are eating at home instead of dining out, requiring changes to...
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Build or Buy? 5 Considerations for Evaluating Operations Execution Software
An increasing number of multi-unit restaurant, convenience store, and supermarket operators are embracing operations execution software solutions to...
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4 Operational Focus Areas to Scale Your Multi-Unit Business
Running, and growing, a multi-unit operation is tough. There’s always more work to do in the spirit of helping stores succeed and exceeding quality...
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Operational Trends Beyond the Pandemic: Grocery Pickup and Third-Party Delivery
Despite being the largest retail category globally, the grocery sector has been slow to embrace digitalization. The pandemic, though, has amplified...
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What is OpsX? The A-to-Z list for Grocery Operators
In grocery store and supermarket operations, if your store is clean and the food quality is good, then business is probably good. But you know better...
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4 Ways to Streamline Restaurant Operations with Efficient Task Management
Running a successful restaurant operation requires more than just serving great food. While many owners/operators choose the restaurant business...
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Employee Training Is an Operator’s Number One Food Safety Responsibility
Regardless of where or how a food safety issue originates, your employees are the last line of defense for the wellbeing of customers. This places...
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Do Your Operational Forms and Checklists Ask the Right Questions?
A simple yet effective way to standardize operational processes across your operation is by incorporating the use of forms and checklists. From...
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Best Practices for Launching an Employee Health and Wellness Check Program
With the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic still echoing in the workplace, it is more essential than ever to minimize risk and make employees feel safe...
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How Empathy Influences the Way Zenput’s Platform Supports Foodservice & Retail Teams
For some, working in foodservice/retail is the start of a long, rewarding career, and for others, it’s a stepping stone along the path of their career...
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How Grocery Operators Can Take a Fresh Approach to Food Safety
The start of the summer season is always a time for celebration. Fresh Veggies Day—on June 16—will be no different, as stores nationwide celebrating...
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3 Ways Operators Can Use Automation to Fearlessly Leverage Ghost Kitchens
While the COVID-19 pandemic undoubtedly disrupted the restaurant industry’s traditional dine-in model, it also presented new and different...