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Staff cost, service by service.

Every day's labor cost, worked out from the time clock and contracts and compared with forecast covers. By service and by department, the next morning: not with the pay stubs a month later.

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Every day, from the time clockCompared with forecast coversTime clock to the payroll provider in one tap
Labor cost, week of the 12thtarget 30%From time clock
DayLabor cost%Covers
Mon 12closed—
Tue 1328.4%118 · forecast 110
Wed 1429.6%104 · forecast 105
Thu 1527.9%131 · forecast 125
Fri 1627.3%162 · forecast 160
Sat 1734.1%178 · forecast 210
Sun 1829.0%151 · forecast 150
Week at 0.0%: in line, except SaturdayWhy Saturday
Saturday 17: 34.1% against 30%+ 4.1 pts
Forecast covers210
Actual covers178
People in the dining room6 (3 too many)
Rain at 7 p.m.: 32 fewer covers and three more people in the dining room. Next Saturday: 5 in the dining room.
Today

You find out what staff cost from the pay stubs.

Labor cost is the restaurant's second-biggest cost, and you see it once a month, when the consultant sends the pay stubs. Meanwhile you put three extra people on the Saturday it rained, and nobody linked the schedules to the covers.

  • With the pay stubs

    A month later, when the work is done.

  • Schedules disconnected from covers

    Six in the dining room for 178 covers, four for 210.

  • One total, no service

    You don't know whether it's lunch or dinner, the dining room or the kitchen, that's over.

Staff, July
Cost from pay stubs$24,910
Labor cost29.8%
Saturdays above 33%?
Found out on 10 AugustWith July's pay stubs
Where it comes from

Hours, contracts and covers: yesterday's labor cost, this morning.

Hours come from the time clock, the full hourly cost from contracts, revenue from the POS. Labor cost is worked out every night, per day and per service, and compared with the covers forecast from history and bookings.

Where the 29.8% comes from3 sources
Time clock0hours worked, from the phone of whoever clocks in
Contracts0people, with full hourly cost including contributions
Covers0actual, against the forecast from history and bookings
Hours times hourly cost, divided by revenue: every day, not every month

Full hourly cost, not gross.

For every contract Ordinoo knows the hourly cost with payroll taxes, benefits and accruals: what you really pay, not what's written on the pay stub. So the 29.8% is real, and it's compared with the same day's revenue, not the month's average.

  • Time clock from the phone

    Clock-in with location, or from the badge if you have one.

  • Forecast covers

    History for the same day plus today's bookings.

By service

Not “Saturday”, but the dining room at dinner.

The day's labor cost is an average that hides everything. Split by service and by department it tells you where the problem is: the kitchen is in line, the dining room at dinner isn't. And next time the shift is done with five people, not six.

  • Lunch, dinner, department

    Every service with its cost and its covers.

  • In the next shift

    The number goes to whoever plans the schedules, by itself.

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Saturday 17, by service and department DinnerLunch
DepartmentPeopleHoursCoversLabor cost Kitchen42412827.1% Dining room63612839.4% Bar212—31.2%
DepartmentPeopleHoursCoversLabor cost Kitchen3155026.4% Dining room2105025.8% Bar16—29.0%
The problem isn't Saturday: it's the dining room at dinner, six people for 128 covers
Month end

Time clock to the payroll provider, in the format they already use.

At month end you don't copy time clock into a spreadsheet: it's already there, with overtime, holidays, leave and supporting documents. Out comes a file in the payroll firm's own format, you send it with one tap, and the pay stubs come back with no questions.

  • Real time clock

    Clocked from the phone, with location.

  • Overtime worked out

    Per contract, not from memory.

  • In the payroll firm's format

    What the consultant imports without touching it.

Month end, for the payroll providerIt gets prepared
31 AugTime clock for 6 people, 612 hoursClock-ins from the phone, with locationready
31 AugOvertime, holidays, night schedulesWorked out per contract: 14 hours of overtimeready
31 AugLeave, time off, sick daysWith the supporting documents uploaded from the phoneready
31 AugLabor cost for the month: 29.8%In the P&L, by departmentaccounted
01 SepFile for the payroll firm, in its own formatYou send it with one tap: no spreadsheet copied out on Sundaysent
Twenty minutes

Bring us last Saturday's schedules,
we'll work out that evening's labor cost

With the schedules worked, the contracts and the POS close we see what every service cost and how many people were really needed. Free and with no commitment: if it's not for you, we'll tell you ourselves.

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  • The schedules of a real Saturday
  • That evening's POS close
  • Labor cost by department
Where it continues

Where the labor cost goes.

Shift planningSchedules built on forecast covers.P&LStaff inside the margin.Daily reportYesterday's labor cost, this morning.
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