Control your second-biggest cost from one place

Labor is where your margin leaks

Food and labor are the two costs that decide whether a shift makes money. You watch food closely. Labor often runs on a hunch. Shift4 Direct puts the time clock, scheduling, and labor reporting in the same system that rings your sales, so you can see what you are spending on staff against what you are taking in, in real time.

Staff clock in and out on the POS, so hours are captured at the source instead of copied off a paper sheet. Overtime and long shifts are easy to catch before they surprise you on payroll day.

• Clock in on the POS — hours are captured where the work happens, so payroll is accurate, not estimated.
• Build the schedule — set shifts by role and coverage, then compare planned labor to actual sales.
• Real-time labor percentage — watch labor cost against sales during the shift, not after the numbers close.
• Catch overtime early — flag long shifts and overtime before they land on your payroll run.

Schedule to the shift, not to the gut

When you can see sales by daypart, you can staff to it. Trim an over-covered slow lunch, add hands to a Friday rush, and stop paying for coverage the volume does not justify. A point or two off your labor percentage on every shift adds up fast over a year.

Because scheduling and time tracking share the same system as your POS, there is no exporting between tools and no reconciling two sets of numbers. What your staff clocked is what shows up in your labor report.

One system, one back-office

Labor management runs in the same cloud back-office as your sales and menu, and you can check it from the manager mobile app when you are off-site. Support is 24/7/365 and in-house, with local install and training from a real person.