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01 Oct Compaction Technologies Announces Change in Sales Leadership

Posted at 16:47h in news

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Eagan, MN, October 1, 2026 – Compaction Technologies, Inc. (CTI), a leading provider of front-of-house trash compactors, today announced a leadership transition within its sales organization. After careful consideration, CTI has decided to move in a different direction with respect to the leadership of...

28 Sep What October Dining Rooms Tell You About November

Posted at 13:44h in news

There is a version of October that feels like a breather. Summer volume has settled, the back-to-school rush is over, and the holidays still read as somebody else's problem. That version of October costs operators money every single year. October is not a lull. It is...

22 Sep Automate the Task Nobody Wanted. Keep the People Who Do the Rest.

Posted at 19:36h in news

There was a period when consistency was a hiring problem. Get enough good people onto enough shifts and the standard held. Most operators who built something worth running learned the craft in that era, and the arithmetic has quietly changed underneath it. The math that stopped...

14 Sep The Restroom Is Doing Your Marketing. Is It Doing It Well?

Posted at 15:17h in news

Ask a C-store operator what drives repeat business and you will hear about fuel price, the coffee program, the food offer, the loyalty app. All of that is real. None of it is the reason a regular quietly stops coming. The silent churn No customer has ever...

04 Sep Your Custodial Team Shrank. The Square Footage Did Not.

Posted at 09:27h in news

The hardest number in campus facilities right now is not a budget line. It is the ratio between square footage and headcount, and it has moved in one direction for five years. Hiring has been difficult and backfills have been slow or never approved. What that...

03 Sep When Wages Rise, Every Task Gets Repriced. Did You Reprice This One?

Posted at 10:18h in news

Wage increases usually get discussed as a cost problem. For a well-run operation they are closer to a prioritization problem. A higher floor does not make your people less valuable. It makes low-value tasks much harder to justify. The task nobody has repriced Front-of-house trash handling has...

27 Aug The 56-Minute Problem Hiding in Your Dining Room

Posted at 12:43h in news

Most operators can tell you their food cost to the decimal. Almost none of them can tell you how many minutes a day their crew spends handling trash. It is one of the last unmeasured costs in a fast casual dining room, and it is...

20 Aug Fall Habits Are Formed in August: Protecting a High-Standard Dining Room When It Is Hardest

Posted at 18:38h in news

The last few weeks of summer are the ones that matter most for fall loyalty. Families finishing their summer routine before school starts are making quick decisions about which restaurants belong in the new schedule. The research is consistent: 73% of QSR customers say cleanliness matters...

13 Aug Last Call for Summer Traffic: How C-Stores Win the Return Visit

Posted at 13:41h in news

The last stretch of summer is here. Road trip season does not end all at once, but the final wave of travelers is moving through right now. Families fitting in one last trip. College students heading back. Labor Day weekend just ahead. More of those customers...

29 Jul The Move-In Deadline: Why August Is the Installation Window That Matters

Posted at 13:05h in news

Move-in weekend is approaching. For campus facilities teams, that is the hard deadline for the summer maintenance window. Whatever has not been installed, upgraded, or fixed by then becomes a September problem instead. Timing matters more than it looks. Installations done before move-in run through their...

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