New from Zenput: Use Location Attributes to Drive the Right Work in Each Store
Standard operating procedures are standard for a reason: every one of your stores needs to do them. But what if one store has a drive-thru and the...
Food Safety Month: 3 Modern Approaches for Safer Food Preparation
To help spread awareness for National Food Safety Education Month, we’re spotlighting each of our four pillars of food safety execution throughout...
Food Safety Month: 3 Ways to Stay Out of the Temperature Danger Zone in Every Store
To help spread awareness for National Food Safety Education Month, we're spotlighting each of our four pillars of food safety execution throughout...
National Food Safety Education Month: Tips, Resources, and Best Practices for Operators
September is National Food Safety Education Month . This annual observance by the FDA and CDC aims to help foodservice operators prevent, detect, and...
New from Zenput: Use Allergen Labels to Protect and Inform Customers
In the United States, 32 million Americans have food allergens – one in every ten adults and one in every 13 children – has some form of a food...
Franchisee Operations Software Must-Haves
A single, centralized solution can help drive operational efficiencies in three key areas In this article, we’ll show you what to look for when...
Identify and Plug Productivity Leaks in your Operation with 4 Questions
At every single level of your organization, there are tedious, repetitive, time-consuming, and manual tasks that your teams could do better or faster...
6 Factors That Impact Employee Productivity
Workplace productivity plays a big role in determining an organization’s success, especially in multi-unit operations. Efficient business processes...
Verify Employee Vaccination Status and Test Results with Zenput
Across the world, various local, state, national, and company-wide mandates are being enacted. What does this mean for you? You'll be responsible for...
Avoiding the Danger Zone: Understanding & Enforcing Food Temperature Checks
Unsavory, but true: bacteria are ever-present in the soil, air, water, and foods we eat. And when bacteria have nutrients (food), moisture, time, and...
Implement Food Safety Protocols to Ensure Clean Environments
The teams that serve, prepare, and handle food in restaurants, grocery stores, and convenience stores manually execute work that is important to the...
Food Safety Testing: What Operators Need to Know
Food safety is more important than ever to multi-unit foodservice operators and the general public that they serve. There are several reasons for this...
5 Lessons for Modern Ops Leaders from the History of Foodservice Operations
Public eateries have been around for almost all of human history. From the ancient Greeks and Romans, inns and taverns served food to people who were...
Opportunity Awaits: Pandemic-Driven Labor Shortage Helps Fast-Track Foodservice Career Growth
The pandemic has reshaped thinking around hiring in the foodservice industry. When COVID-19 struck, over 5 million jobs were wiped out in just two...
7 Female Operations Leaders Reshaping the Future of OpsX
While men hold a majority of leadership positions in the foodservice industry— and the pandemic continues to amplify the biases women leaders have...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...