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...
How to Choose the Right Restaurant Management Software
When searching for solutions to help you run your multi-unit restaurant operation, the proliferation of technologies that identify as “restaurant...
Operations Leader Spotlight: Rob Whaley, Sugar Mountain
With a new year approaching, the restaurant industry will be bringing in many new ways of operating to ensure they are ready to take on any new...
Operations Leader Spotlight: Daniel Chin, Juici Patties
The world has continued to experience the impacts that COVID-19 has had on the restaurant industry over the last year. Switching from dine-in to...
Operations Leader Spotlight: Kellie Taylor, Domino's Denmark
It’s no surprise that COVID has hit the entire world differently - it has left many operators forced to adapt quickly to changing local conditions and...
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...
Operations Leader Spotlight: Leslie Bailey, Ruby Tuesday Hong Kong
2020 has thrown some major curveballs to the restaurant industry over the last 9 months, leaving businesses forced to change the way they operate...
Operations Leader Spotlight: Gary George, MM Subs
Navigating a global pandemic causes unexpected changes to the way a restaurant business operates. If 2020 has taught us one thing, it’s that remaining...
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...
The Zenput Guide to Agile Operations Execution
Recent market conditions have heightened challenges for restaurant operators and forced quick and constant change in strategies and procedures. While...
[Webinar Recap] The Role Operational Agility Will Play in Reopening Restaurants, Safely
Our CEO, Vladik Rikhter, recently had the pleasure of speaking with former CDC researcher and Public Health Expert, Dr. Hal King, about reopening...
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...
We’ll Get Through This, Together
Recent disruption in the industry has forced restaurant operators to change strategies and procedures overnight. As the effects of COVID-19 continue...
Operations Leader Feature: Interview with Eric Martino, COO, Think Food Group
The actions that multi-unit operators are taking to address and survive the coronavirus pandemic are gutsy, brave, lofty, and inspiring. Running a...
Responding to COVID-19 & Preparing for What’s Next: An Interview with Public Health Expert Dr. Hal King
As the foodservice industry responds to the unprecedented global coronavirus outbreak, operators are doing everything they can to help keep staff and...
How to Convert Restaurants to Takeout & Delivery Only – Interview with Farmers Restaurant Group
Now several months deep into the coronavirus outbreak, multi-unit operators find themselves sprinting and pivoting on a daily basis to keep their...
How to use Zenput (for Free) to Roll Out Your COVID-19 Action Plans
Restaurants and other foodservice operators have spent the last three-plus weeks updating store processes, pivoting their day-to-day operational...
How to: Coronavirus Action Plans & Enforcement for Operators
The current situation with the coronavirus (COVID-19) has operators planning how to keep their customers and employees healthy and safe from infection...
Gaining Visibility Into Performance in Every Store
Since the growth of the first chain restaurants in the early 1900s, multi-unit operators have struggled with “visibility” across their operation –...
Restaurant survey finds stores are really struggling to comply with operating procedures and key initiatives
It’s no secret that multi-unit restaurant operators struggle to translate operating procedures and key initiatives into execution at the store level...
Improving the Quality of Execution
With all the changes happening in the restaurant industry today, operations leaders have a hard enough job running a multi-unit operation. While...