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A labor model and scheduling discipline built to your sales pattern: staffing to demand, labor percentage held to target, without the over- or understaffing that kills either margin or service.

Fixed-scope install

From $7,500

Two points of labor on a $5M group is $100,000 a year.

$1,000 discovery week, credited toward the install.

If the week concludes an install isn’t the fix, you’ll hear that plainly — the $1,000 bought the read that saved you the rest.

A 30–60 day install, scoped after a discovery week: enough to build the model and prove it across two full pay periods.

For groups where labor cost swings — or service suffers — because staffing isn’t built to demand.

Labor is the line most operators manage by feel and pay for in both directions. Schedule heavy and margin bleeds on a slow Tuesday; schedule light and service falls apart on a Saturday rush you should have seen coming. When the schedule is built off last week’s gut instead of the sales pattern, you’re choosing between cost and experience every week, and usually losing one of them.

This install replaces the guesswork with a labor model built to your actual sales and daypart pattern, by role and by unit, plus the scheduling system and templates your managers run from. We set labor-percentage targets, build the variance read that shows scheduled vs. actual vs. sales, and install the overtime, shift-swap, and call-in discipline that keeps the model from leaking. The median full-service operator lands closer to 36% of sales, the disciplined ones nearer 34%, and that gap is almost always a scheduling problem, not a wage problem.

Two points of labor on a group doing $5M in sales is $100,000 a year, thirteen times what the install starts at. You staff to demand instead of to habit, protecting the margin and the night at the same time.

Start with a conversation.

Take the Diagnostic

The Straight Read shows you which install to run first. Back within 48 hours.

What gets installed

  • —A labor model built to your sales and daypart pattern, by role and by unit
  • —Scheduling templates for every daypart and day of week, built for whoever writes the schedule
  • —Labor-percentage targets and a weekly variance read (scheduled vs. actual vs. sales)
  • —Overtime, shift-swap, and call-in discipline
  • —The model, targets, and templates documented, walked through with your schedule-writer at the desk where the schedule gets built

How the install works

DiscoveryAnalyze sales and labor history, find the swings, and quote the install to fix them.
BuildBuild the labor model and scheduling system.
InstallPut the model behind next week’s schedule and write it with your managers.
HandoffHandoff waits on two full pay periods at target. Then we recalibrate and leave the model with your schedule-writer.

What this isn’t

A fixed-scope install with a defined start and end, not an open-ended engagement. It does not include:

  • ●A full operational audit
  • ●The line-check system (that’s the Shift-Execution Install)
  • ●Food-cost controls (that’s the Food-Cost Install)
  • ●Payroll or HR system changes
  • ●A scheduling-software build (that’s AI-Assisted Tools)
  • ●A second concept’s labor model (different menu, different model — its own scope)

You’re in the right place if

  • —Labor percentage runs low one week and blows through target the next, with no clear cause
  • —Managers schedule off feel and last week’s memory, not the actual sales pattern
  • —Every Saturday rush is a scramble because the schedule didn’t anticipate it

Common Questions

What does the Labor & Scheduling Install cost?

From $7,500. Unit count and daypart complexity are what move it up from there. Priced as a fixed number once we’ve seen your sales and labor history, never charged by the hour or the visit. The $1,000 discovery week applies toward that if you move forward.

How involved do my managers need to be, week to week?

Whoever builds your schedules today (usually a GM or AGM) is in it the most, a few hours weekly reviewing the model as it’s built, more during the week we install the scheduling templates. Hourly staff feel a better schedule; they aren’t part of building it.

How long does this take, and what if we’re heading into our busy season?

Thirty to sixty days, scoped in discovery to run across more than one pay period so the model proves itself before we hand it off. If a busy season is close, we build the model against that demand pattern specifically, rather than a slow-season baseline that won’t hold once volume spikes.

What keeps labor from creeping back up after the install ends?

The week the install ends, your schedule-writer is already building from the model. They’ve done it across two pay periods with us watching. From there, the weekly scheduled-vs-actual-vs-sales read catches drift the pay period it happens, not the quarter it lands in the P&L, and the overtime and call-in discipline keeps the model from leaking around the edges. If you ever want the labor line reviewed long-term, that’s a different engagement. The model runs without it.

Our schedules live in the POS scheduler. Do we have to switch software?

No. The model is the math underneath the schedule (staffing levels by role and daypart, built from your sales pattern), and it feeds whatever tool your managers already write schedules in. We install the discipline, not a new system: if the scheduler you have can hold the templates, it stays. A software change would be its own decision, and it isn’t one this install requires.