Labor Scheduling:

An Invaluable Planning Tool

The Labor Scheduling module allows you to plan ahead and then analyze your projections – for example, you can evaluate the mix of cooks and cashiers, adjust for a holiday rush, and balance vacation schedules for your staff. The module also provides critical cost controls, helping you to compare payroll budgets with actual dollars spent and graph labor costs as a percentage of sales on a weekly basis.

The software is intuitive and once you enter your parameters along with each employee’s abilities and preferences, you can rest assured that the resulting schedule will handle your staffing needs. As a result--Labor Scheduling rapidly pays for itself in saved time by streamlining this complex weekly chore.

Create Staff Schedules Instantly

With clever codes for jobs, skills, and scheduling preferences, you can easily capture the parameters for each employee. It’s simple to build in the nuances you must take into account – like the fact that Mark can work on Monday, Wednesday, Friday evenings, all day Saturday and ideally, wants to work about 20 hours per week. And that Kelly is a great waitress, but an even better hostess.

After entering the desired staffing levels for each job category (i.e., how many waitresses, cooks, bartenders you need for different times each day), Restaurant Manager™ generates the work schedule for you. The automatic work schedule uses different colors to highlight problem conditions, such as an employee going into overtime, or periods when you are under- or overstaffed.

You can still manually assign individual employees to specific shifts. But even then the software provides visual cues to help you meet projected workloads, avoid availability conflicts, and monitor overtime conditions.

Once the schedule is built, the system can automatically notify employees of their schedules via email.