{"id":8030,"date":"2010-12-30T06:22:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T13:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/?p=8030"},"modified":"2014-10-10T07:16:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T12:16:36","slug":"restaurant-operations-visual-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/restaurant-operations-visual-management\/8030\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant Visual Management System &#8211; The Coffee Lid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a296a24fa2fc69ef5487857f02f111e8\" data-index=\"9\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Single Post readerboard -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8207522353004717\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1144967431\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Some of the biggest opportunities is in providing a solution to the problems that people either miss or can&#8217;t articulate &#8211; or, don&#8217;t even recognize as a problem, even though it really is a problem. That&#8217;s one <a title=\"how to conduct kaizen in a restaurant operation\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/restaurant-kaizen\/9268\/\">critical aspect of Kaizen<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>While I don&#8217;t drink coffee, I have many friends that do and I&#8217;ve seen them struggle with the cup of coffee they buy in the morning from <a title=\"Starbucks Coffee\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/starbucks-why-lean-why-now\/5639\/\">Starbucks Coffee<\/a> or other places.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it &#8211; a cup of coffee shouldn&#8217;t be that difficult to manage, but yet I&#8217;ve seen people:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Get burned by coffee<\/li>\n<li>Spill their cup of coffee<\/li>\n<li>Drop their cup of coffee<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Most likely, the people that have experienced any of the above incidents from their coffee drinking probably thought that the incident &#8220;comes with the territory&#8221; or is one of those &#8220;live-with&#8221; things that come with life.<\/p>\n<p>Not so.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a simple solution, using <a title=\"Visual Management\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/visual-management-principle-make-it-obvious\/2536\/\">Visual Management<\/a> that aims to prevent the above defects:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8031 size-full\" title=\"visual restaurant management system, coffee lid\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/visual-management-coffee-instructions.jpg\" alt=\"coffee cup visual restaurant management system\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/visual-management-coffee-instructions.jpg 600w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/visual-management-coffee-instructions-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We know that one of the principles of Visual Management is to <a title=\"make things obvious\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/visual-management-principle-in-a-glance\/2975\/\">make things obvious<\/a>. Well, the image above aims to do just that <sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-8030-1' id='fnref-8030-1' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(8030)'>1<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>For the coffee drinkers out there &#8211; would the above help you in your coffee drinking?<\/p>\n<div class='footnotes' id='footnotes-8030'>\n<div class='footnotedivider'><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li id='fn-8030-1'> Hat Tip to David Anderson for the image (<strong>twitter<\/strong>.com\/<strong>agilemanager<\/strong>) <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-8030-1'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the biggest opportunities is in providing a solution to the problems that people either miss or can&#8217;t articulate &#8211; or, don&#8217;t even recognize as a problem, even though it really is a problem. 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