A guide to achieving health and safety compliance in hospitality
It’s a busy Saturday afternoon, it’s hot and humid and the drinks orders are coming in thick and fast. In the kitchen it’s even hotter than it is outside as the chef and their team deal with all the requests. To turn up the heat even more, something else is about to...
A guide to achieving health and safety compliance in hospitality
Read our guide to achieving health and safety compliance in hospitality and passing your next visit from the Environmental Health Officer.
Technology in hospitality
From the finance department to front of house and even marketing, we’ve created a round up of the systems and solutions hospitality businesses are using to help them run more effectively.
How the construction industry can make huge savings by ditching the paper
We’ve highlighted some of the reasons why you need facility management software in your manufacturing business.
Medical cold storage temperature sensors are more important than ever
We’ve highlighted some of the reasons why you need facility management software in your manufacturing business.
What’s the difference between HACCP and ISO 22000?
We’ve delved into the world of food safety to answer the question: what’s the difference between HACCP and ISO 22000? Including how HACCP was actually first used by NASA!
How to use Vibration Sensors for Predictive Maintenance – Common Use Cases
We’ve put together a series of use cases to help identify how vibration sensors benefit businesses and play a significant role in predictive maintenance programs.
How a CMMS system helps improve quality
A CMMS can be used to improve business processes for quality through its role and collaboration with maintenance, as we’ve highlighted here.
What is Predictive Maintenance?
A look at the world of predictive maintenance in manufacturing and how new technology is benefiting the businesses using it.
A guide to achieving health and safety compliance in hospitality
Read our guide to achieving health and safety compliance in hospitality and passing your next visit from the Environmental Health Officer.
KPIs your maintenance management software needs to track
Here are our recommendations for the KPIs your maintenance management software needs to track and how to go about choosing them.
Ways to improve efficiency in your manufacturing business
Regardless of the size of your manufacturing business, continuous improvement in efficiency and productivity Imperative. Here are the ways you can make it happen.
What is CMMS maintenance software?
A Computer Maintenance Management System (or CMMS) centralises all daily maintenance processes and operations. It enables manufacturing businesses to digitally manage maintenance and optimises asset and equipment management, communication, work orders and maintenance reporting. Providing insight reporting software, a CMMS organises information about all operations to provide you with more information about your business than you’ve ever had before.A CMMS Provides:Maintenance ManagementCarry...
What is MTFB and MTTR?
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) and MTTR (Mean Time To Repair) are both significant manufacturing metrics for determining the availability of a machine or piece of equipment. However, there are differences between the two and how they can provide indicators for the efficiencies of processes in your business.
6 Reasons why you should use CMMS software
There are so many reasons why you should invest in a CMMS system for your business. Here are 6 of them.
How does CMMS software cut maintenance costs?
Improving maintenance operations to positively affect the bottom line is hard. Regardless of whether you’re running a large factory or a smaller scale operation, adopting automatic processes are clearly needed to carry on being competitive. Read this blog find out how CMMS software cut maintenance costs.
How CMMS software can save your business money
With CMMS software you can save money, achieve compliance and help your business be more efficient and productive. In this blog, we’ll tell you about those benefits in more detail.
Facilities Management: Common mistakes to avoid
In facilities management there are mistakes to avoid to make sure things run smoothly. Read on to find out what they are and how to avoid.
Risk Management: Five steps from the Health and Safety Executive
It goes without saying risk assessments are imperative under health and safety laws and failure to adhere to them could result in an offence. Essentially, they have been created to make sure employers make the workplace as safe as possible for employees. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have created 5 steps to follow which will help you. Identify the hazards The first thing to do is to know what hazards there are and the best way to do this is to scope out the workplace and identify...
Six signs you’ve got a positive safety culture
Six signs you’ve got a positive safety culture. This list is for those who want confirmation they’re on the right path and for those who aren’t and need extra help or a starting point.
Why using data helps businesses make better decisions
A look at how businesses in different industries are using data to make better decisions and how the OpsBase platform allows customers to do the same.
Latest Release: Another step forward for OpsBase following epic mission
Following our software release in July we’ve been on a mission to make even more improvements following feedback from customers. Here’s what’s been done.
Exciting updates to our web and native apps
We’re delighted to share news of our latest software update following months of hard work from our development team. With tons of new features, a complete rewrite of our web and native apps and a focus on making everything faster and easier we can’t wait for customers to try it. Click the title to find out more.
A Helpful List of Food Safety Acronyms
The world of food safety can seem a complicated one and with so many acronyms whether it be HACCP, BRC or SFBB, it can be difficult to know which ones are important for your business. Here, we’ve put together a list of the most significant ones to help provide a better understanding of the ones you need to know.
How and when to reopen your restaurant after COVID-19?
With lockdown seemingly easing and the hospitality industry slowly opening up again it’s important to start thinking about what the ‘new normal’ may look like. Here are key things we think you need to be thinking about concerning how and when to reopen your restaurant post-COVID-19.
7 ways to use your downtime to get ready for reopening
Although many restaurant businesses have found creative ways to stay open and serve customers during this highly unexpected time, some have temporarily shut their doors. If you find yourself in an empty restaurant, bar or cafe, why not use this closure as an opportunity to make improvements? When you reopen, you’ll be starting back up on the right foot, in the best shape possible.
Technology in hospitality
From the finance department to front of house and even marketing, we’ve created a round up of the systems and solutions hospitality businesses are using to help them run more effectively.
A guide to achieving health and safety compliance in hospitality
Read our guide to achieving health and safety compliance in hospitality and passing your next visit from the Environmental Health Officer.
Why using data helps businesses make better decisions
A look at how businesses in different industries are using data to make better decisions and how the OpsBase platform allows customers to do the same.
A Helpful List of Food Safety Acronyms
The world of food safety can seem a complicated one and with so many acronyms whether it be HACCP, BRC or SFBB, it can be difficult to know which ones are important for your business. Here, we’ve put together a list of the most significant ones to help provide a better understanding of the ones you need to know.
7 ways to use your downtime to get ready for reopening
Although many restaurant businesses have found creative ways to stay open and serve customers during this highly unexpected time, some have temporarily shut their doors. If you find yourself in an empty restaurant, bar or cafe, why not use this closure as an opportunity to make improvements? When you reopen, you’ll be starting back up on the right foot, in the best shape possible.
Creative Ways Restaurant and Pubs are Hacking COVID-19
Here are some of the wonderful ways in which businesses in hospitality have hacked the COVID-19 pandemic to their advantage.
Is there technology to make HACCP compliance easier?
One of the most notable things about the technological age and progress over the last 10 to 15 years is just how many industries are using smart technology for their daily operations. For some industries, it was to be expected, whereas for others the shift was quite...
Using the same mop to clean the toilets and kitchen? That’s cheeky, Nando’s
The term ‘cheeky Nando’s’ became a chicken bone of contention across English speaking social media a few years ago. Of course, in the UK, we knew what it meant. When you go for a Nando’s, but it’s cheeky. Maybe you’re shopping and get hungry and then end up going to...
Nul points for Johnson’s proposed immigration system
While Brexit and the vote that led to it continues to defy generalisations, it is fair to say that the inherently international hospitality and food manufacturing sectors were never it's biggest fan. Which adds to the sense of injustice that it is hard to...
6 Ways to improve productivity in the workplace
We’re confident when we say that every business wants to find the secret to higher employee productivity. To have a happy, healthy, efficient and hardworking workforce is the dream, right? So, with that in mind, we’ve explored some of the methods you can employ to...
How to use Vibration Sensors for Predictive Maintenance – Common Use Cases
We’ve put together a series of use cases to help identify how vibration sensors benefit businesses and play a significant role in predictive maintenance programs.
How a CMMS system helps improve quality
A CMMS can be used to improve business processes for quality through its role and collaboration with maintenance, as we’ve highlighted here.
What is Predictive Maintenance?
A look at the world of predictive maintenance in manufacturing and how new technology is benefiting the businesses using it.
KPIs your maintenance management software needs to track
Here are our recommendations for the KPIs your maintenance management software needs to track and how to go about choosing them.
Ways to improve efficiency in your manufacturing business
Regardless of the size of your manufacturing business, continuous improvement in efficiency and productivity Imperative. Here are the ways you can make it happen.
What is CMMS maintenance software?
A Computer Maintenance Management System (or CMMS) centralises all daily maintenance processes and operations. It enables manufacturing businesses to digitally manage maintenance and optimises asset and equipment management, communication, work orders and maintenance...
What is MTFB and MTTR?
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) and MTTR (Mean Time To Repair) are both significant manufacturing metrics for determining the availability of a machine or piece of equipment. However, there are differences between the two and how they can provide indicators for the efficiencies of processes in your business.
6 Reasons why you should use CMMS software
There are so many reasons why you should invest in a CMMS system for your business. Here are 6 of them.
How does CMMS software cut maintenance costs?
Improving maintenance operations to positively affect the bottom line is hard. Regardless of whether you’re running a large factory or a smaller scale operation, adopting automatic processes are clearly needed to carry on being competitive. Read this blog find out how CMMS software cut maintenance costs.
How CMMS software can save your business money
With CMMS software you can save money, achieve compliance and help your business be more efficient and productive. In this blog, we’ll tell you about those benefits in more detail.
How the construction industry can make huge savings by ditching the paper
We’ve highlighted some of the reasons why you need facility management software in your manufacturing business.
Medical cold storage temperature sensors are more important than ever
We’ve highlighted some of the reasons why you need facility management software in your manufacturing business.
What’s the difference between HACCP and ISO 22000?
We’ve delved into the world of food safety to answer the question: what’s the difference between HACCP and ISO 22000? Including how HACCP was actually first used by NASA!
A guide to achieving health and safety compliance in hospitality
Read our guide to achieving health and safety compliance in hospitality and passing your next visit from the Environmental Health Officer.
Ways to improve efficiency in your manufacturing business
Regardless of the size of your manufacturing business, continuous improvement in efficiency and productivity Imperative. Here are the ways you can make it happen.
What is CMMS maintenance software?
A Computer Maintenance Management System (or CMMS) centralises all daily maintenance processes and operations. It enables manufacturing businesses to digitally manage maintenance and optimises asset and equipment management, communication, work orders and maintenance...
6 Reasons why you should use CMMS software
There are so many reasons why you should invest in a CMMS system for your business. Here are 6 of them.
Risk Management: Five steps from the Health and Safety Executive
It goes without saying risk assessments are imperative under health and safety laws and failure to adhere to them could result in an offence. Essentially, they have been created to make sure employers make the workplace as safe as possible for employees. The Health...
Six signs you’ve got a positive safety culture
Six signs you’ve got a positive safety culture. This list is for those who want confirmation they’re on the right path and for those who aren’t and need extra help or a starting point.
A Helpful List of Food Safety Acronyms
The world of food safety can seem a complicated one and with so many acronyms whether it be HACCP, BRC or SFBB, it can be difficult to know which ones are important for your business. Here, we’ve put together a list of the most significant ones to help provide a better understanding of the ones you need to know.
What’s the difference between HACCP and ISO 22000?
We’ve delved into the world of food safety to answer the question: what’s the difference between HACCP and ISO 22000? Including how HACCP was actually first used by NASA!
A Helpful List of Food Safety Acronyms
The world of food safety can seem a complicated one and with so many acronyms whether it be HACCP, BRC or SFBB, it can be difficult to know which ones are important for your business. Here, we’ve put together a list of the most significant ones to help provide a better understanding of the ones you need to know.
How and when to reopen your restaurant after COVID-19?
With lockdown seemingly easing and the hospitality industry slowly opening up again it’s important to start thinking about what the ‘new normal’ may look like. Here are key things we think you need to be thinking about concerning how and when to reopen your restaurant post-COVID-19.
7 ways to use your downtime to get ready for reopening
Although many restaurant businesses have found creative ways to stay open and serve customers during this highly unexpected time, some have temporarily shut their doors. If you find yourself in an empty restaurant, bar or cafe, why not use this closure as an opportunity to make improvements? When you reopen, you’ll be starting back up on the right foot, in the best shape possible.
Creative Ways Restaurant and Pubs are Hacking COVID-19
Here are some of the wonderful ways in which businesses in hospitality have hacked the COVID-19 pandemic to their advantage.
Is there technology to make HACCP compliance easier?
One of the most notable things about the technological age and progress over the last 10 to 15 years is just how many industries are using smart technology for their daily operations. For some industries, it was to be expected, whereas for others the shift was quite...
Using the same mop to clean the toilets and kitchen? That’s cheeky, Nando’s
The term ‘cheeky Nando’s’ became a chicken bone of contention across English speaking social media a few years ago. Of course, in the UK, we knew what it meant. When you go for a Nando’s, but it’s cheeky. Maybe you’re shopping and get hungry and then end up going to...
How to make your Facebook small food business legally compliant
From latin american dishes in plastic Tupperware tubs, to multi-coloured donuts and vegan tiffin boxes, the Facebook marketplace seems to have turned into the social media platform’s very own world food buffet. There are dishes seemingly from every cuisine, some...
Technology in food manufacturing
There are French harmonics in the background and machines stand over a silver car on a production line mimicking the work of an artist liberally illustrating patterns over a vehicle’s bodywork. All becomes clear when you realise the car is in-fact a Citroen Picasso...
How to encourage breakfast sales while keeping costs low
It’s easy to see how breakfast sales get overlooked. In hotels and restaurants that are busy for lunch and in the evenings, all man-power is directed towards those key times. What you might not know is that it can be a key driver for sales if done correctly. Hotels...
Medical cold storage temperature sensors are more important than ever
We’ve highlighted some of the reasons why you need facility management software in your manufacturing business.
How to use Vibration Sensors for Predictive Maintenance – Common Use Cases
We’ve put together a series of use cases to help identify how vibration sensors benefit businesses and play a significant role in predictive maintenance programs.
Why using data helps businesses make better decisions
A look at how businesses in different industries are using data to make better decisions and how the OpsBase platform allows customers to do the same.
Latest Release: Another step forward for OpsBase following epic mission
Following our software release in July we’ve been on a mission to make even more improvements following feedback from customers. Here’s what’s been done.
Exciting updates to our web and native apps
We’re delighted to share news of our latest software update following months of hard work from our development team. With tons of new features, a complete rewrite of our web and native apps and a focus on making everything faster and easier we can’t wait for customers to try it. Click the title to find out more.
COVID-19 – How OpsBase is taking care of staff and supporting customers
Working from home, supporting customers financially and providing operations templates to fight COVID-19. While all of our customers are affected by the crisis, our hospitality customers are seeing the most extreme impact, with many forced to close their doors entirely. In order to do our part to alleviate the financial stress and minimise operational impact, we have given all customers a payment holiday so they are able to focus on what’s important without needing to worry about payments to OpsBase.
Our 5 favourite restaurant movie scenes
The lights are on, the red carpet has been unrolled and the stars are out for the 2020 movie season. However, the debate in our office hasn’t been about whether 1917 is better than Joker or if Ricky Gervais’s jokes in his role as host of the Golden Globes went too far. Instead, we’ve been chatting about our favourite movie restaurant scenes. Here’s the pick of them. When Harry Met Sally (1989) The table in Katz’s Deli restaurant, where that scene was filmed, holds a plaque that reads, ‘Where...
Design Insights: UX vs UI
Users value experience over the shinier aspects of design, and you can be sure, if it’s not intuitive to use, your customer base will find something that is. However, is stripping back to the bare minimum the best way to go when designing a product?
Employee engagement that actually works
In the hospitality sector, it’s not uncommon for staff turnover to exceed 60% annually, how can you engage and ultimately retain your workforce?
OpsBase at Restaurant & Bar Tech Live
With restaurants and bars already excelling using our platform, we will be ready to answer all your operational questions at Restaurant & Bar Tech Live in November, ExCeL London, ready to show off our operations and workforce platform to all the forward-thinking restaurateurs and mixologists we’ll see there.
Ready for lift-off
After six months of hard work, we are delighted to report that we have ignition and OpsBase is well on its way on its way into orbit.
Hospitality software is NOT the solution
OpsBase provide the newest, innovative software and hospitality businesses should embrace technology, simply to make their operations (and ultimately – their lives) easier – so why am I saying that it is not the solution to all your business woes??
The sun never sets on OpsBase!
With our offices in Sydney, London and very soon New York, there is now not an hour in the day when we aren't working to deliver world beating solutions to revolutionise our customers' businesses. Sure, there are some early mornings / late nights but the round the clock rhythm is already paying dividends with how quickly we can move. Michael has launched a number of innovative technology products, spanning SaaS to Recruitment, Events and Hospitality. While harbouring a healthy love...
