There is a silver lining to the current economic climate: recessions are a great time to streamline processes - both to save money and to give yourself the time to focus on the strategies that will keep your business successful through trying times. Even in the best of times, fast casual operations with lean expenses will profit more than a cost laden competitor.
There is a silver lining to the current economic climate: recessions are a great time to streamline processes - both to save money and to give yourself the time to focus on the strategies that will keep your restaurant afloat (and successful) through trying times.
In many fast casual concepts, payroll is either the largest, or second largest, budget expense. And you probably spend a lot of time making sure that this large expense is kept below budget - while ensuring that you have the necessary staff coverage for your restaurant.Restaurant employee scheduling isn’t easy - most managers spend at least two and a half hours, every week, building and managing the schedule.
Managers must juggle employees’ availability and varying skill sets, identify cross-training needs, monitor part-time employees (each with their own set of scheduling requests), and even worry about labor laws concerning staff who are minors, or employees who drive or handle liquor. You communicate the work schedule to all the staff members, respond to never ending questions about next week’s schedule, and all of the other headaches that go along with labor scheduling.
And then you must communicate the newly revised schedule to the employees. Again. And again. The cycle never stops!
Communicating the labor schedule, and building a good labor schedule is time-consuming and tedious, and vital to your fast casual business. Over-staffing costs your company money, and reduces profits. Under-staffing costs you customers, and reduces profits.
Luckily, there is a cost-effective, time-saving solution: TimeForge. TimeForge will cut your employee scheduling time from hours to minutes - or even seconds.
And in both profitable and challenging economic times, the ability to manage schedules at one or many locations and monitor and forecast your labor expenses makes TimeForge an instant budget boosting tool. Add in the ability to integrate easily with restaurant POS systems and payroll systems, employee reminders of upcoming work schedules, staffing notifications for schedule changes by text message or email, and the ability to focus manager time on the necessary tasks facing a fast casual restaurant manager on any given day, you’ll find that the time saved first week alone pays for the investment.
In fact, TimeForge can increase restaurant profits by 3-5% with its cost cutting and time saving controls.
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