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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
IoT 101: A Quick Lesson in Connected Devices and Temperature Monitoring
Internet of Things (IoT) is the next phase in the digital transformation revolution. While there are many facets to what IoT can encompass as a space...
Building the Business Case for your Operations Execution Initiative
In our previous posts in this series, we touched on the factors that are driving restaurant, convenience store, and grocery chain operators to...
What is (and isn't) an Operations Execution Platform?
As operations leaders plan for 2021, most are prioritizing investments in initiatives that will drive a step function increase in operations execution...
The OpsX Imperative: Operators Feel Mounting Pressure to Boost Operations Execution Rigor
In recent years, multi-unit operators were already feeling pressure mounting to take their operations execution rigor to the next level. The struggle...
Research Reveals C-Store Employees Spend Too Much Time on Low-value Tasks
Convenience store operators are constantly striving to create a great and consistent experience at their stores that keep customers coming back time...
NACS 2019 - Join Us in Atlanta!
NACS 2019 is coming to Atlanta this week! Since its founding in 1961, NACS has brought together top convenience and fuel retailing industry...
The Top 3 Challenges Multi-Unit Operators Face Today and the Next Wave of Operations Execution
Restaurant, retail, and other multi-unit operators have less control over the fate of their businesses than ever before. Shifting market dynamics...
How a Leading Petroleum Supplier Delivers Great Customer Experiences
Timewise has consolidated its operational procedures into Zenput, helping create consistency at each of their 220 locations. Here’s how. With over 37...
'Buy vs. Build': The Overlooked Reasons for Buying SaaS
As an employee of a software as a service (SaaS) company, I could write a blog about the perennial “buy vs. build” debate for software platforms and...
Mobilizing Your Workforce: The Next Frontier for C-Stores
From mobile apps to social media, mobile technology has undoubtedly changed how convenience stores interact with customers. But how can mobile...
NACS 2018 - Join Us in Las Vegas
NACS 2018 is right around the corner! Since its founding in 1961, NACS has brought together top convenience and fuel retailers in the industry -- This...