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The Definitive Guide to Compliance for Restaurants
The Definitive Guide to Compliance for Restaurants
Your comprehensive guide to understanding federal, state, and local regulations, helping you keep your restaurant compliant and running smoothly.
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Driving Profit with AI
Driving Profit with AI
Read the industry report on restaurant operators using AI to overcome challenges, streamline operations, and increase profits despite rising labor and food costs.
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Secrets to Mastering Rising Costs
Secrets to Mastering Rising Costs
Struggling to manage rising costs? Take control of your restaurant’s expenses with the Secrets to Master Rising Costs. This essential collection of calculators, trackers, and tools equips you to optimize operations and protect your profit margins.
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How AI is Changing the Game
How AI is Changing the Game
Watch the discussion with Fourth’s CEO, Clinton Anderson and executive leaders in Technology, HR, and Finance at PizzaHut, Brinker International, SSP America are utilizing AI – recorded at Restaurant Leadership Conference 2024.
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Beginner’s Guide to Restaurant Operations Technology
Beginner’s Guide to Restaurant Operations Technology
Download the Beginner’s Guide to Restaurant Operations Technology to learn how technology and partnerships can improve profitability and ensure compliance.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Workforce Management for Restaurants
A Beginner’s Guide to Workforce Management for Restaurants
Facing unprecedented demand, restaurant managers need new strategies to support worker efficiency and satisfaction. Workforce management software can help.
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Navigating the Schedule
Navigating the Schedule
In this video, we discuss why managers should love HotSchedules. We highlight features such as the easy-to-use interface for scheduling staff, flexible viewing options, and various reports that aid strategic decision-making.
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Automatic Shift Pickup
Automatic Shift Pickup
In this video, we discuss how automatic shift releases and pickups on the HotSchedules platform can help employees manage their schedules. He guides us through setting up these features, highlighting their convenience and adaptability.
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Rebuilding Profitability: Early Girl Eatery’s Success Story with Restaurant Operations Suite
Rebuilding Profitability: Early Girl Eatery’s Success Story with Restaurant Operations Suite
Discover how Early Girl Eatery went from the brink of bankruptcy to a thriving, multi-location business by adopting Fourth's Restaurant Operations Suite. Learn how integrated solutions for scheduling, payroll, and earned wage access fueled profitability, reduced labor costs, and improved employee retention.
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The Employee Experience
The Employee Experience
In this video we discuss the numerous benefits that Hot Schedules offers to both managers and their employees. Core features include mobile scheduling, time-off requests, and shift swaps, all of which go to a centralized location for manager approval.
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Creating a New Schedule
Creating a New Schedule
In this video we discuss the various ways to create a schedule in HotSchedules including creating from scratch, using scheduling templates, copying a previous week's schedule, utilizing the Auto Schedule, and analyzing past sales trends.
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Logbook Overview
Logbook Overview
Logbook is a digital shift management tool that keeps a record of completed tasks, detailing who did it and when. It syncs with HotSchedules and allows managers to track tasks by date, time, and IP stamp.
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Reporting Dashboard
Reporting Dashboard
In this video, we review HotSchedules' capability to produce a diverse range of over 40 reports. He guides listeners to use the Reports tab to generate sales, labour, and employee interactions reports and suggests saving frequently used reports in the Favorites tab for convenience.
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Submitting Time-Off Requests
Submitting Time-Off Requests
In this video we explain how to use HotSchedules for submitting time-off requests. Employees can view existing requests and submit new ones online. While they can edit or delete a submitted request, approval or denial is at managers' discretion.
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Accessible Schedules for Everyone
Accessible Schedules for Everyone
In this video, we discuss the multidimensional accessibility of HotSchedules, which makes it easier for employees to check their schedules anytime, anywhere.
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Time & Attendance
Time & Attendance
In this video we discuss how the Time & Attendance app aids in time management by enabling employees to punch in and out from their mobile device, within a stipulated timeframe and store location.
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Employee Shift Release & Pick-Up
Employee Shift Release & Pick-Up
The HotSchedules mobile app simplifies the process of releasing and swapping shifts. Employees can release shifts by selecting the shift and citing the reason for release.
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Boosting Sales by 15%: Thai Leisure’s Journey to Operational Excellence with Fourth
Boosting Sales by 15%: Thai Leisure’s Journey to Operational Excellence with Fourth
Explore the journey of Thai Leisure as they transitioned from manual to automated operations, partnering with Fourth to streamline scheduling, enhance accuracy, and drive a remarkable 15% sales increase.
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How Noodles & Company Saved $4M in Labor Cost by Streamlining Scheduling with HotSchedules
How Noodles & Company Saved $4M in Labor Cost by Streamlining Scheduling with HotSchedules
Since 1995, Noodles & Company has been squarely focused on nourishing and inspiring every team member, guest, and community it serves. Serving a world of flavor while saving millions of dollars in labor with Fourth.
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How Smokey Bones Saved 30+ Hours Weekly in Back-of-House Operations and Boosted Google Reviews by 18% with Fourth’s Analytics
How Smokey Bones Saved 30+ Hours Weekly in Back-of-House Operations and Boosted Google Reviews by 18% with Fourth’s Analytics
Read how Smokey Bones chose Fourth to solve their scheduling challenges and inefficiencies. Learn how they adopted Fourth to streamline operations and improve scheduling accuracy and dive into how they improved their google customer reviews, saved 30+ hours per week, and how Fourth has kept them competitive within their market.
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Ford’s Garage streamlined scheduling by 30% with HotSchedules
Ford’s Garage streamlined scheduling by 30% with HotSchedules
Ford's Garage enhanced hiring and engagement through PeopleMatter and on-demand pay, and achieved HR, payroll, and compliance ease.
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Our Expert Guide to Earned Wage Access
Our Expert Guide to Earned Wage Access
Earned Wage Access: Empower employees with on-demand pay, boosting financial wellness and retention in the hospitality industry.
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10 Ways to Improve Restaurant Profitability
10 Ways to Improve Restaurant Profitability
Labor costs. Staffing shortages. Supply chain issues. This is the new normal that restaurants must conquer to achieve sustained profitability. Managing inventory and people in real time is complex. Predicting future demands is even more challenging. But with the right strategies and technology in place, you can simplify the chaos of workforce and product management to Conquer the Day.
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How SSP Boosted Employee Satisfaction by 60% using Earned Wage Access
How SSP Boosted Employee Satisfaction by 60% using Earned Wage Access
SSP revolutionized employee recruitment and retention with Fuego from Fourth. Seamless integration, earned wage access, and enhanced benefits boosted satisfaction and simplified hiring.
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Comptoir
Comptoir
See how the leader in Lebanese cuisine conquers the day with Fourth to modernise their operations to hire, schedule, stock, and invoice in minutes and hours—not days and weeks.
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Braum’s
Braum’s
Learn how one of the nation’s most beloved brands streamlines scheduling to drive sales and employee retention with Hot Schedules from Fourth.
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Sun Pubs
Sun Pubs
Sun Pubs began using the Fourth HR and Payroll Services solution at the beginning of 2020. Formerly outsourcing with another provider, Sun Pubs quickly experienced the difference in service with Fourth’s responsive, reliable services team.
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The Four Seasons Hotel
The Four Seasons Hotel
Throughout the years, the iconic Four Seasons Hotel, Park Lane, London, operated with a traditional labour model, hiring core team members on 40 hours contracts to ensure maximum coverage to deliver the five star experiences their guests had come to expect.
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ATS Recruitment Guide
ATS Recruitment Guide
The ongoing nationwide labor shortage means the talent pool to draw from is extremely shallow, and the competition to draw from that pool is at an all-time high.
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The Jardine Restaurant Group
The Jardine Restaurant Group
When the global pandemic tipped the world upside down, the international hospitality industry was put under strain and to a halt.
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How to Optimize Your Labor & Control Costs
How to Optimize Your Labor & Control Costs
The restaurant industry has been under intense pressure since the start of COVID-19 in March of 2020. With shut downs, reduced capacity limits, labor shortages, and rising wages - operators are digging into the numbers and taking a hard look at every dollar spent and every dollar saved.
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Burger King
Burger King
Burger King UK (BK UK) prides itself in its start-up mentality – innovative, data driven, and scalable.
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Nando’s
Nando’s
Nando’s ANZ knew that they would need to update and modernize their back office technology if they were going to successfully move the business forward.
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Predictive Scheduling
Predictive Scheduling
Predictive Scheduling laws are spreading to new states -requiring employers to post schedules for their employees in advance. While these laws vary by state and locality, the workforce management mandates are certainly taking off.
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Labor Optimization with Noodles and Company
Labor Optimization with Noodles and Company
Each time we interact with restaurant leaders and their management teams, we ask them what their biggest operational challenge is – and they always say labor.
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How to Address Restaurant Payroll Challenges
How to Address Restaurant Payroll Challenges
Payroll challenges plague restaurants. With the right solution, inaccurate checks, pay delays, low morale, fees and fines are a thing of the past. See how.
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Blaze Pizza
Blaze Pizza
Blaze Pizza is one of the hottest brands in the nation. In 2018, it topped Franchise Times’ Fast & Serious list, the pub’s annual ranking of the smartest-growing restaurants in the industry.
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Buffalo Wild Wings
Buffalo Wild Wings
See how HotSchedules helped Buffalo Wild Wings cut down on their labor costs, create more balanced shifts by skill level, and reduce scheduling time by over 75%
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Joliet Slammers Stadium
Joliet Slammers Stadium
With help from HotSchedules, Fremarek has been able to reduce overall labor cost, achieve faster scheduling and much more!
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Flix Brewhouse
Flix Brewhouse
Whether you want brunch and a rom-com or pizzas and the latest Oscar favorite, Flix can make it happen. Find out how Flix ensures that they’re training every team member to deliver fast, high-quality service, every showing with the help of Talent Development powered by SchooX.
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Hopdoddy Burger Bar
Hopdoddy Burger Bar
For the last three consecutive years, Business Insider has named Hopdoddy Burger Bar the best burger joint in America. And that fanfare is well-earned – the Austin, TX, restaurant’s hip, funky atmosphere is infectious, and so is the team’s attitude.
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Drake & Morgan
Drake & Morgan
James Sherrington, CFO, shares how Fourth’s Workforce Management ensures compliance with legislation, while Inventory and Recipe & Menu Engineering allows them to make truly informed decisions.
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Fairfax Meadow
Fairfax Meadow
Fairfax Meadow is one of the UK’s largest catering butcher, headquartered in Derby and turning over more than £150m. Tony Carlisle, Head of IT & Systems, shares why they chose the Fourth Platform to help reduce paper, streamline processes and grow their business.
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Rick Stein Group
Rick Stein Group
Rick Stein OBE started in hospitality with his ex-wife Jill in 1975, and their company now includes 12 restaurants, four retail shops, a bar, an online shop, a cookery school, 40 bedrooms and self-catering accommodation. All of which are supported by a sophisticated food production and distribution operation.
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wagamama
wagamama
Former CEO, David Campbell, shares how using Fourth’s solutions have improved scheduling, inventory management and decision making at wagamama.
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Stonegate Group
Stonegate Group
Simon Kaye, Ex-COO of Intertain and Consultant to Stonegate, shares how Fourth’s solutions helped streamline payroll, ensure compliance with eligibility to work legislation, and make sure they have the right staff in the right place at the right time.
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Red Carnation Hotels
Red Carnation Hotels
Learn how the Red Carnation Hotel Collection improved their workforce management, increased efficiency and improved communications using Fourth.
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