Industry Voices

Convenience Is Key

by Katie Lee April 14, 2022

— By Garrett Fishaw — 4 ways to improve your curbside pickup and delivery services. Curbside pickup and food delivery apps have taken the restaurant and grocery industry by storm. No longer do customers have to physically enter retail and restaurant locations to enjoy their products. Whether it’s a cheeseburger from McDonald’s or a week’s worth of groceries from Walmart, it can be had by logging into a mobile app, clicking a couple of buttons, and voilà, it’s either on the way or waiting to be picked up. Convenience …

April 14, 2022

Industry Voices roofing

Rethinking a Re-Roof

by Katie Lee April 11, 2022

— By Tom Dawson — How to save on roof-related costs during a remodel. Remodeling a building tends to be costly, but there is a chance businesses can bypass a major — and often assumed — “necessary” cost. The purpose of this article is to educate and share some good news: businesses may be able to avoid the need for a new roof during an upcoming remodel. Often when a building is undergoing a major remodel, the general contractor’s default position is that the roof must always be replaced. …

April 11, 2022

Industry Voices pest control vendors

2022 Pest Predictions

by Katie Lee April 11, 2022

— By Nancy Troyano — Entomologists provide their 2022 pest prognosis for retail and restaurant managers. As the world continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, much of the business and operational world has shifted. Labor and supply shortages continue to impact everything from grocery stores to restaurants and distribution centers. One thing that is not in short supply for many of these commercial spaces: pests. Pest experts across the country expect to see an increase in pest activity in 2022. With minimal products stocking the shelves and fewer …

April 11, 2022

energy management HVAC/R Industry Voices jan/san vendors

Safe & Sanitized

by Katie Lee March 31, 2022

— By Del Williams — UVC light inactivates viruses and other airborne pathogens, improving indoor safety in commercial spaces. With commercial facilities taking precautions against viruses as never before, an effective new tool in their arsenal is a new type of “germicidal” LED fixture. This specialized, enclosed LED fixture draws in air and irradiates it with ultraviolet light (UV), significantly improving indoor safety by providing continuous disinfection of airborne viruses as well as bacteria and germs. While traditional UV fixtures have been used for many years to …

March 31, 2022

facilities management Industry Voices kitchen equipment restaurants vendors

Flipping the Script

by Katie Lee March 25, 2022

— By Danny Koontz — Advantages of having worked on both sides of the same coin: on the facilities management side and the vendor side. Ever wondered when ordering something, buying something or taking a sales call, why did the person on the other side choose that particular job? Maybe they didn’t choose it; maybe circumstances did — or maybe they enjoy that job as their passion. After almost 4 decades in the restaurant facilities management side of the business, I now find myself on the vendor side, …

March 25, 2022

energy management HVAC/R Industry Voices restaurants vendors

Clean Power

by Katie Lee March 25, 2022

— By David Sansenbach — Protecting power quality is key to restaurant and retail revenue. One of the most critical elements of running a successful restaurant or retail location is being fully operational whenever you are open to diners or shoppers. In order to do that, electrical equipment like a POS system, a WiFi modem, kitchen printers, security cameras, computing platforms and automation tools need to reliably operate exactly as expected. Given that this equipment is likely quite expensive to purchase (and to fix) and its timely and accurate …

March 25, 2022

Industry Voices security/loss prevention

Securing All Channels

by Katie Lee March 17, 2022

— By Bill Herzog — Improving security and communication at your retail business. Security should always be a top priority in your retail business. A good security plan can prevent theft, improve communication and provide customers with an overall safer environment to shop in. Setting up a proper security plan can be difficult if you don’t have the proper expertise around you. As a security expert with experience working in retail spaces, I have helped businesses create a safe and secure shopping environment that keeps staff and customers safe …

March 17, 2022

Industry Voices restaurants software/technology vendors

Essential Services

by Katie Lee March 17, 2022

— By John Moody — Five game-changing reports all restaurant operators should be using. Most small businesses start out using spreadsheets because they are basically free, easy to use and highly customizable. Restaurant operators can use a spreadsheet for almost every function in the restaurant from ordering, inventory, prep lists, invoicing, food costing, scheduling, accounting — you name it. These spreadsheets require hours of data entry along with manually creating formulas just to generate reports. Many of these spreadsheets are so complex that only the owner or general manager …

March 17, 2022

facilities management Industry Voices jan/san restroom cleaning vendors

Restrooms, Revisited

by Katie Lee March 10, 2022

— By Jon Dommisse — 5 ways COVID-19 changed Americans’ impressions of public restrooms and facilities. Upon entering the third year of the pandemic, Americans are not only more sensitive to germs in public restrooms, they now hold higher standards for the cleanliness, condition and technology used in these shared spaces, according to the annual Healthy Handwashing Survey™ we conducted in January. Despite ongoing COVID outbreaks, most Americans have not been deterred from using public bathrooms. In fact, 41% of Americans report using public restrooms as often as they …

March 10, 2022

disaster recovery Industry Voices

Tiered Response

by Katie Lee March 10, 2022

— By Ian Nicolson — How to answer the tough business continuity questions. Severe weather poses many challenges for retail and restaurant operators, but the most significant is parsing through and analyzing the fire hose of incoming weather forecast data to determine the real business impacts to their operational processes and locations. Business response plans need to be objective, consistent, repeatable and defensible to the CFO. It can be overwhelming to answer critical logistics questions like these using just the wind and rain data provided by the local …

March 10, 2022

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