Five Tips to Minimize Super-Sized Labor Costs

Restaurants are feeling the bite of high labor costs, thanks to increased minimum wages, staff shortages, and high employee turnover that is outpacing other industries. Luckily, there are a number of strategies owners can take to minimize the amount payroll gobbles up. 

1. Invest in TechnologyThe simplest way to reduce labor needs in any business is to use technology to streamline and automate processes. Replacing manual tasks and having employees do more in less time can help QSRs reorganize their teams to reduce hand-off delays and combine similar tasks to eliminate redundancies. 

One smart idea is investing in software that can schedule employees’ working hours, manage HR processes, prepare payroll, analyze labor data, and monitor employee attendance. In addition to reducing the number of hours management would have to spend attending to all these tasks, software can help increase employee satisfaction, such as eliminating “clopens” (when an employee closes at the end of…