📅 Schedule
Know your labor cost like you know your food cost
Food and labor are your two biggest costs. This is the other half. Labor against your Square sales every week with a plain verdict, next week's schedule checked against the sales forecast, and the hours nobody is on the clock while the door is open.
- ✓Labor as a percent of sales each week, overtime and payroll tax counted
- ✓Next week checked against the forecast, with trims priced in dollars
- ✓Coverage gaps and missed clock-outs flagged, each with a fix
Reads shifts and sales from Square
The other half of your prime cost
Almost every operator can tell you their food cost percentage and almost none can tell you last week's labor percentage without opening three tabs. Schedule reads shifts and sales from Square and gives you labor as a percent of sales each week, with overtime and payroll tax counted rather than quietly ignored. Food and labor together are prime cost, and knowing only one of them is knowing half your business.
Next week checked before you post it
The schedule you have drafted for next week is checked against the sales forecast, and suggested trims are priced in dollars so a decision is a decision rather than a guess. Cutting four hours from a Tuesday is easy to agree to when you can see what it saves and what it costs in coverage.
Coverage gaps and missed clock-outs, each with a fix
A single person scheduled on your busiest shift is the kind of mistake that is obvious in hindsight and invisible in a grid. Schedule flags coverage gaps and missed clock-outs, each with the specific fix next to it. A missed clock-out is not a scheduling annoyance, it is an overtime bill you did not agree to.
Schedule, answered
Do I need Square for Schedule to work?+
Schedule reads shifts and sales from Square, which is what makes the labor against sales comparison automatic. Without it you would be entering both sides by hand, which defeats most of the point.
Is this a scheduling tool or a reporting tool?+
Both, but the reason to use it is the checking. Plenty of tools will let you build a schedule. This one tells you what the schedule you built is going to cost against the sales you expect, before the week runs.
Does it include overtime and payroll taxes?+
Yes. Labor percentage counts overtime and payroll tax, because a figure that leaves them out is a figure that flatters you.
What labor percentage should I be aiming for?+
It depends heavily on your format. A full service restaurant runs very differently from a counter service cafe. Set your own target and Schedule gives you a plain verdict against it each week rather than comparing you to an average that does not describe your business.
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