Controlling Labor and Other Costs
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Master Staffing Worksheet
The Master Staffing Worksheet can be used effectively to establish scheduling guidelines based on the forecasted guest count for upcoming weeks.
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Online Course
How to Create the Ideal Labor Budget
Labor cost is the biggest expense for most restaurants. Learn how to improve your scheduling and labor budgeting practices using tools you already have. Receive practical tips to create an ideal labor budget unique to your restaurant. How to Create the Ideal Labor Budget
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Labor Scheduling
Use the schedule template to create schedules and labor budgets for virtually any type of food and beverage establishment, including full service, counter service, fine dining, bars, quick service, and banquet rooms. Scheduled labor hours and cost are summarized into daily and weekly totals, providing ...
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Article
The Key to Controlling Labor Cost: A Shift-by-Shift Strategy to Create a Winning Labor Budget
While the war on labor cost may never be totally won, the day-to-day battles can. The key to winning is to view each and every shift as an individual battle. You must have a battle plan if you expect to win more than you lose. Likewise, you must consistently execute the plan to accomplish your objec...
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Restaurant Schedule Template - Simple
This version of our Restaurant Schedule Template has a simple design and is ideally suited for use as a labor budgeting tool. It can be used to create schedules and labor budgets for virtually any type of food and beverage establishment, including full service, counter service, fine dining and bars.
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Prep Labor Cost Calculator
Use the Prep Labor Cost Calculator to evaluate the average labor cost for preparing batch recipes.
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Article
How Independent Operators Can Maximize Labor Productivity
As operators compete for labor in a scarce labor market, they will have to boost compensation to fully staff their units. That said, even in this age of continuing automation, you can't run a successful restaurant without reliable hourly employees. Treating staff like a commodity is an invitation to ...
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Training Video
5 Tips to Reduce Payroll Headaches
Managers cringe when employees complain about missing hours or incorrect pay. They often end up spending their day making corrections or issuing replacement checks when they should be on the floor attending to your guests.
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Training Video
Why Labor Cost On Your P&L Is Probably Wrong
Are you accounting for bi-weekly payroll periods on your monthly P&Ls? Many independents do not, and it leaves their financial statements inaccurate and pretty much meaningless.
