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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...
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8 Best Practices for Implementing an Operations Execution Platform
A software tool on its own will not transform your business. It must be combined with a company-wide commitment to organizational and cultural change...
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Zenput’s 2021 Employee Cooking Challenge
As mentioned in a previous post, we like food a lot here at Zenput. From our mission and vision of making every meal safe by empowering our customers...
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How Operations Leaders Use Zenput to Assign Work to Field & Store Teams
With dozens of locations and hundreds, sometimes thousands of employees, operations leaders constantly face the challenge of effectively and...
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The Top Operational Changes that C-Stores Will Keep Beyond the Pandemic
The COVID-19 crisis dramatically changed the day-to-day function of convenience stores, turning these local shops into regular, reliable sources for...
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Why Zenput Is One of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces in 2021
Since Zenput’s early beginnings in 2012 it’s been important to create and maintain an environment where people feel connected to one another and the...
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6 Reasons to Digitize C-Store Operations
The use of technology has completely transformed the operational success of the foodservice industry. Applying tech platforms and tools to automate...
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Operations Leader Spotlight: Alan Meyer, Mach 1
Successful convenience store operators not only know how to manage their stores well, but can also identify trends in the market and adapt to them...
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How to Address the 2021 Staffing Crunch with Operations Execution Software
Just as operators regain their footing with pandemic restrictions loosening and begin pushing forward on new strategies to serve customers and drive...
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Stop Food Waste Day 2021: How Operators Can Support the Cause Today and Every Day
Stop Food Waste Day — April 28, 2021 — is a chance for food industry operators to consider their organization’s role in proactively combating food...
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5 Takeaways from Zenput’s 2021 C-Store AGILITY Summit
This week we hosted our first-ever Convenience Store AGILITY Summit, which you can still view on demand. In addition to releasing the 2021 Convenience...