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...
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...
How Multi-Unit 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...
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...
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...
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...
Agile Operations Execution in Grocery: Driving Productivity Across Your Entire Workforce
Agile Operations Execution for Grocery: Part 3 of 3 We've explored the optimized roll out of strategies and initiatives, and how to ensure compliance...
Agile Operations Execution for Grocery: Ensuring Compliance with Procedures & Initiatives
Agile Operations Execution for Grocery: Part 2 of 3 In part 1 of 3 we explored the optimized roll out of strategies and initiatives, but even the best...
Agile Operations Execution for Grocery: Optimized Roll Out of Procedures & Initiatives
Building the framework to turn grocery strategy into action faster As we all know, the disruption caused by COVID-19 has had an impact across...
Announcements in Zenput: How Multi-Unit Operators Share News and Updates with Every Store
Multi-unit operators regularly deploy operational changes that must be adopted in every store – from launching delivery or curbside pickup service or...
Ensuring grocery employees and customers feel safe during a public health crisis
As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, certain procedures that were already a part of grocery operations have come to the forefront of every grocery...
Pandemic highlights the importance of operational agility in grocery
As the coronavirus pandemic began impacting businesses across the world, many grocery store operators found themselves suddenly faced with increased...
OpsX Playbook Series Part 3 of 5: Marketing Promos
Marketing promotions like limited time offers (LTOs) and seasonal offerings are just one of the ways restaurant operators introduce exciting new...
5 Ways Mobile Technology Can Help Make a Grocery Store Great
When asked what makes a grocery store “great,” industry veteran Bob Mariano’s answer seemed simple enough: “A great grocery store is made up of great...
'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...
No Retailer Can Be Everything To Everyone
Sometimes you come across a study or analysis that holds a universal truth for the retail world. Acosta’s recent Hot Topic Report, Trip Drivers: Top...