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...
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...
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...
What is OpsX? The A-to-Z list for Grocery Store Operators
In supermarket and grocery store operations execution, if your store is clean and the food quality is good, then business is probably good. But you...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
6 Reasons to Digitize Convenience Store Operations
The use of technology has completely transformed the operational success of the foodservice industry. Applying tech platforms and tools to automate...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Why G2 Ranked Zenput as the Top Task Management Software
Looking into task management technology options is a huge investment of both time and money. In your search, you may have come across lists of what...
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...
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...
Navigating the 2021 Restaurant Technology Landscape
Regardless of size, industry, or location, all businesses need to invest in the right tools in order to scale. In the restaurant industry, the...
How Operators Can Adapt, Learn and Grow Beyond the Pandemic
In an ever-changing climate faced with so much unprecedented change, the food and restaurant industry is finding ways to adapt in order to streamline...
Food Safety and Sanitization Planning in 3 Steps
When COVID-19 entered the scene in early 2020, it brought a slew of new food safety hazards along with it. Although foodborne illnesses have troubled...
4 Actionable Steps Restaurants Can Follow to Prevent Spreading Illness
The spread of foodborne illness is a constant threat in the restaurant industry, and most operators make at least some effort to mitigate it with food...