Category Archives: Automation

Boost Efficiency and Consistency with IoT: Remote Monitoring & Management Across Multiple Locations

The Challenge of Multi-Location Management Operating a business across numerous locations introduces a range of challenges. From maintaining consistent customer experiences to ensuring equipment reliability and adherence to safety protocols, the tasks can quickly become overwhelming. Traditionally, these responsibilities required significant manual oversight, with Facilities Managers physically visiting each site to ensure everything ran smoothly, […]

Our Best Blogs of 2023

As we approach the final stretch of the year, we’re excited to present our top five blogs of 2023. Whether you’re still hard at work or taking a break to enjoy some holiday festivities, these blogs are perfect for a moment of year-end enlightenment. Wrap things up with these interesting reads—no scissors or tape required! […]

Implementing and Scaling Automation Across Multiple Locations: 5 Key Considerations for Retailers and Restaurants

In today’s competitive business landscape, enterprises operating across multiple locations face unique challenges when managing operations, maintaining consistency, and driving growth. However, with the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), businesses can leverage connected facilities to streamline processes, enhance performance, and achieve cost savings. Let’s explore five essential considerations for implementing and scaling automation […]

Labor Woes Aren’t Going Anywhere: How automation helps

Business owners are battling labor shortages due to a looming recession, continued inflation, more layoffs, and higher unemployment. But according to SHRM, data shows the real worry is tied to a factor not nearly as variable: demographics.  Due to demographic shifts, aging populations, and reduced birth rates, experts are predicting that countries like the U.S. […]

Knock Down your Energy Bill with IoT

  As colder weather creeps in, businesses are bracing for steep hikes in energy costs this winter. The significant increase, combined with high gasoline prices, supply chain issues, spending weariness, and inflation, is creating a myriad of challenges for business owners. This has left many searching for innovative ways to cut costs and reduce bottom […]

3 Ways Data Gathered From a Connected Kitchen Helps Operations Leaders See the Bigger Picture

Data is king for small, medium, and large organizations alike. It powers the intelligence behind many actionable results, particularly for businesses using the Internet of Things (IoT). In the foodservice and food retail industries, analytics gathered from a connected kitchen provide invaluable insight on everything from product safety and equipment performance to decreasing maintenance and […]

6 Ways IoT is Modernizing Food Retail

Food retailers are under mounting pressure to reimagine physical stores in order to keep pace with consumer needs and wants. According to McKinley, the pandemic, combined with evolving customer preferences and macroeconomic trends, has converged to reshape the traditional role of food retailers. As supermarkets continue to adapt, technology is crucial for success. To contend […]

3 Strategies for Increasing Employee Retention

How Automating Tasks Can Help Make Employees Jobs Easier and Reduce Turnover These days it’s hard to ignore the phenomenon dubbed The Great Resignation, but for business owners everywhere, it’s even harder to keep employees. Workers are leaving their jobs at unprecedented rates—47 million Americans called it quits in 2021—which has left employers struggling to […]

Reducing Labor Challenges with Automation

Whether the pandemic, the subsequent labor shortage, or what’s being dubbed The Great Resignation are to blame, the current job market is like nothing business owners have ever experienced before. Today, it’s not only increasingly difficult to hire, but equally challenging to retain employees, which has further left the foodservice and retail industries struggling to […]