Modern Solutions for Today’s Restaurant Owners

Ordinary people rely on food cooked outside the home to eat more than ever, so restaurant owners have their hands full. Demand is high but so is competition, and the industry is facing disruption with things like ride-share companies delivering meals to peoples’ door.

Thankfully, there is technology specifically designed to help operations in a restaurant function smoothly and more efficiently. Read on to learn more about employee scheduling and how it saves restaurants time and money.

Schedules in Less Time

One of the annoying burdens a restaurant faces is having to create a work schedule each week that works to everybody’s satisfaction. There are a lot of moving pieces to sort out, and balancing the needs of the restaurant and its employees can be complex and time-consuming — worse, just when it’s finally finished, it needs to be done all over again next week.

Employee scheduling software can reduce the time it takes to create a schedule everyone loves by up to 80%. This software spares employees aggravation and stress, and saves so much time that it reduces the restaurant’s labor costs by between 1-3%. 

Better Schedules

The schedules are not just produced faster: they’re better for being more responsive to everybody’s needs. That’s because employees can send their work availability to their manager remotely through the app, so the process is both painless and more effective.

This way, they don’t need to wait until they’re physically in the restaurant to cement their schedule. Indeed, they can ask for time off work this way, and the manager can approve this request remotely too. Just block off the time in a drag-and-drop calendar through your phone at your own convenience, instead of trying to jot down when you’re free in a busy calendar in the staff room.

Actionable Intelligence

Managers need to know everything going on in their restaurants, so they can make informed business decisions. Employee scheduling software connects to all the common POS systems, and its dashboard tracks every metric a manager or executive could want to know. 

From vital but basic statistics right out of the box like total sales and labor costs to custom metrics deemed important, get enterprise-level understanding that’s comprehensive of your entire business. Indeed, employee scheduling software even prompts each employee to rate and describe each shift in their own words.

Employees can leave comments anonymously, so they can be candid without hesitation, ensuring managers get their real opinions. This way, managers can have a ground-level perspective on their business which complements the hard data, and gives a full and true picture of the restaurant operations in three-dimensions.

The transformations in the restaurant industry — everything from food trucks to online user reviews which can make or break a restaurant — present challenges to today’s restaurateurs. It’s fitting that the solution to these modern issues also lies in modern technology like employee scheduling software. No wonder it’s already being used in restaurants across North America.

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