{"id":241510,"date":"2022-10-25T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/?p=241510"},"modified":"2024-04-25T12:42:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T19:42:55","slug":"why-a-27-unit-sports-bar-moved-to-automate-food-labeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/blog\/blog\/why-a-27-unit-sports-bar-moved-to-automate-food-labeling\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a 27-Unit Sports Bar Moved to Automate Food Labeling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Originally posted on qsrmagazine.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taco Mac, a 27-unit sports bar based in Atlanta, has designs to grow within Georgia, and into other states. Jason Everett, vice president of operations, reports that Taco Mac is on track to open five restaurants per year for the foreseeable future. That would double the brand\u2019s footprint within the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Taco Mac\u2019s road to growth faces many of the same challenges that other brands are encountering in 2022: labor has never cost more, and it\u2019s difficult to properly staff a restaurant in order to keep up with demand. \u201cProductivity of kitchen staff has been a particular challenge,\u201d Everett says. \u201cWe\u2019re definitely the same as everyone else in that we\u2019ve had to find ways to do more with the same or fewer team members.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inexperience and understaffing can lead to inconsistencies in the back-of-house for some brands. Fortunately, Taco Mac feels more bullish than many when it comes to its kitchen operations, thanks in part to a move it made in 2019, prior to the pandemic. That\u2019s when Taco Mac adopted TransAct\u2019s BOHA! food labeling system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BOHA! does all of the heavy lifting for employees when it comes to food labeling: there are no handwritten logs that need to be kept, labels that need to be written, or any calculations done manually. For example, if a team member preps a bunch of tomatoes, the system knows exactly what \u201cuse by\u201d date to put on the label\u2014all the team member has to do is select the food item and press \u201cprint.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The process helps eliminate the opportunity for human error, which helps Taco Mac\u2014and the many other brands that use BOHA!\u2014remain FDA compliant and prepared to pass health inspections. As Everett points out, the automated printing of labels also ensures that the back-of-house team isn\u2019t wasting time writing out dozens of labels per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA team member may prep 30 containers of one item\u2014think about how long it takes to fill out six-to-eight sections of the label 30 different times,\u201d Everett says. \u201cThere\u2019s a labor-savings aspect there for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But most importantly, Everett says, BOHA!\u2019s food labeling makes Taco Mac\u2019s operations more consistent. As a restaurant brand looking to grow, a food safety error at any of the 27 locations\u2014and counting\u2014could cost the brand a whole lot more than a fine, or a slap on the wrist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe transition to electronic labeling was an immediate win for Taco Mac,\u201d Everett says. \u201cBack when we were relying on team members to label, there was no integrity or consistency behind that system. Now, we have a system that is highly accurate and organized. It\u2019s been a slam dunk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Food labeling is just one of the several back-of-house tasks that BOHA! is capable of automating. While Taco Mac has not yet delved into the other possibilities\u2014from task management to temperature logs, to time tracking for prep and other processes, and many more error-prone back-of-house tasks\u2014he sees a bright future for the relationship between his brand and TransAct as a vendor partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHaving TransAct as a partner when it comes to equipment and certain software is a big help to us,\u201d Everett says. \u201cAs we expand, we\u2019ll definitely be expanding with their products, because they\u2019ve been that great to us\u2014any way they can help, they\u2019re all in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Charlie Pogacar, QSR Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally posted on qsrmagazine.com. Taco Mac, a 27-unit sports bar based in Atlanta, has designs to grow within Georgia, and into other states. Jason Everett, vice president of operations, reports that Taco Mac is on track to open five restaurants per year for the foreseeable future. That would double the brand\u2019s footprint within the next five […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"1080","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,61,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243300,"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241510\/revisions\/243300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}