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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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...

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...

Best Practices, Innovative Ideas, & New Approaches to Help Convenience Store Operators Stay Agile

Operating with agility has become more important than ever before. You’re continuing to innovate and invest in new ways to serve your customers and...

21 Operational Must-Haves for Your 2021 Health Inspection Checklist

To protect consumers from unsafe conditions or foodborne illnesses, restaurants, convenience stores, and supermarkets regularly undergo health...

How Operations Teams Help Win the Chicken Sandwich Wars

The chicken sandwich wars are back with a vengeance leaving fast-food chains eager to claim victory. According to Restaurant Business Online, in the...

Restaurant employees being assigned tasks using a checklist.

How Leading Restaurants Use Checklists to Optimize Operations

For decades restaurants have used checklists to assign work in their stores and track its completion, from food safety procedures to cleaning specific...