Empowering the Modern Restaurant: Streamlined Scheduling, Employee Onboarding, and Attendance Tracking

Today’s restaurant owners and managers are in somewhat of an unenviable position during this time of rapid change. It is no secret that finding quality employees is becoming increasingly difficult. Retaining those valued employees has never been harder.

Modern technology is changing the way in which restaurants, hotels, and other businesses are managed and operated. Implement the right tech tools at your enterprise and you’ll find workforce management is significantly easier. By implementing the optimal advanced tools including workforce management software to address common issues like scheduling, onboarding, and attendance tracking, you’ll find managing a work crew isn’t nearly as frustrating or costly.

Thankfully, innovative solutions including employee time tracking software and workforce management software help restaurants optimize nearly the entirety of human resources processes. The end result is a mutually beneficial work environment, a reduction in turnover, and a better customer experience.

The Restaurant Workforce Challenge

Contemporary restaurant owners and franchise managers must keep their businesses running amidst high turnover, a historically shallow labor pool, and rising wages in the US and UK. The potential for a rocky onboarding process, employee scheduling challenges, and attendance problems make running a restaurant that much more difficult.

As is often said, where there’s a will, there’s a way. As a professional who has made it to the ranks of restaurant owner or manager, you have clearly demonstrated that you have a strong work ethic that constitutes the will. Harri is here to provide the way through our next-generation employee experience platform built for the frontline.

Efficient Staff Scheduling

Staff ultimately determine the success or failure of restaurants and hotels. The quality of food and service certainly matter, yet hospitality is a people-oriented business in the end. Therefore, finding and keeping the right contributors is critically important to the long-term success of all hospitality businesses. 

Scheduling that makes sense for the business as well as the unique lives of employees is an ongoing challenge. From managing employee shifts without ruffling feathers all the way to utilizing workforce management software, modern restaurants have a plethora of staff-related hurdles to overcome. 

Surmount employee scheduling hurdles with the use of the right software like Harri’s suite of workforce management tools and your restaurant will reach new heights of efficiency and worker morale. Our platform consists of fully integrated tools for convenient and efficient scheduling, employee engagement, and ongoing analysis for mutual benefit. These tools facilitate the optimization of scheduling processes, time/attendance tracking including automation, and plenty more.

Scheduling software allows operators to work smarter, not harder. Smart scheduling tools account for internal and external factors like historic sales data, reservations, demand forecasting, and even weather to provide an optimal labor mix for your location. 

From smart scheduling tech to apps for manager and team member communication, time-clock integration, and compliance issues, our platform covers nearly every human resources challenge faced by restaurants like yours.

Streamlined Employee Onboarding

Take a moment to view the onboarding process at your business from the perspective of a new hire. Is the process disjointed, frustrating, and unnecessarily complicated? Ignore these hurdles to the onboarding process and it won’t be long until your cherished new hires venture to potentially greener pastures or your talent pipeline begins to dry up.

Focus on streamlining the employee onboarding process and you’ll successfully integrate and train new additions to your team. Harri’s tech solutions are here to help you maximize the efficiency of the employee onboarding process.

By digitizing your entire process you can maintain compliance with ease by housing all onboarding information and documents in one centralized location. Your new hires will embark on their employment journey on the right foot with easy access to read and fill out critical forms like I-9s and W4s in the US, and Right to Work documents in the UK.

Accurate Attendance Tracking

Tracking employee attendance is integral to your company’s success. After all, employees are the lifeblood of the business. Implement the right tech tools, protocols, and standards for employee attendance and monitor that attendance every single day without exception. 

Attendance tracking is crucial for payroll accuracy including properly managing a workforce at a restaurant, hotel, or other business. Harri’s employee attendance tools include timesheet compliance that makes it easier for businesses like yours to overcome regulatory challenges. Our software is designed to help restaurants comply with nuanced rules pertaining to employee wages and hours. This is your golden opportunity to leverage tech innovation to comply with every last detail of regulations for full compliance. 

Our technology can be leveraged to provide timely alerts to team members as well as managers in the event of early clock-ins and clock-outs, late clock-ins/clock-outs, missed shifts, and events pertaining to overtime. Managers are empowered to access punch management, time data, tip declarations, and pay-related information in a convenient consolidated recordkeeping system. In fact, our tech is advanced to the point that it empowers you to let employees agree or disagree with digital timecard adjustments in mere seconds.

Time-tracking software and employee time clocks both make a world of difference at fast-paced businesses like restaurants. Our time-tracking software facilitates attendance tracking with precision. Accurate attendance tracking sets the stage for a 100% accurate payroll.

Another highlight of our tech is biometric time clocks which use facial recognition technology, empowering you to biometrically control the time and attendance environment for optimal shift outcomes. Letting your team punch in and out of shifts with facial recognition technology greatly reduces the risk of time theft and buddy punching. Biometric time clocks also facilitate the administration of permissions including rules for unscheduled, late, and early shifts. 

If you are worried about compatibility issues, don’t fret! Our TeamHub App is 100% compatible with both iOS and Android tablets, integrating with a wide range of point-of-sale (POS) systems.

Get your payroll right on the first try and you’ll ramp up employee morale, boost your retention rate, and prevent time-consuming payroll corrections that frustrate both your payroll team and your hardworking frontline personnel. Remember, it merely takes one payroll misstep to alienate an employee to the point that they might begin looking for another employment opportunity. Harri’s tech tools are here to prevent such a scenario.

Modern Solutions for Restaurants with Workforce Management Software

Workforce management at restaurants and related businesses has become that much easier with the addition of workforce management software. Capitalize on today’s modern solutions for workforce management and you’ll upgrade your restaurant’s management capabilities.

Revolutionize Your Employee Time Tracking and Scheduling

Harri’s tools are here to make your job easier as a restaurant owner or manager. Take full advantage of our tech tools for the hospitality industry and you’ll find they make a meaningful impact on your employee scheduling challenges, ultimately heightening employee engagement levels, camaraderie, and retention across the long haul.

Harri’s tech tools constitute an integrated approach to smart employee scheduling at restaurants and other hospitality businesses. Be patient and you’ll find the impact stretches well beyond human capital, boosting productivity throughout your restaurant and maximizing sales.

Partnering with Harri

Our tech empowers restaurants to thrive in nearly all matters related to human resources. Whether you are flustered by employee scheduling hurdles, faced with attendance tracking challenges, or unhappy with the onboarding process, our software will ameliorate these problems with considerable efficiency.  

The time has come for your business to find out how Harri simplifies challenging human resources tasks. Give Harri’s software a chance at your restaurant or other site and you’ll soon find it transforms your human resources processes and more.

We’ve helped hospitality industry employers throughout the United States and in the United Kingdom conquer challenges ranging from employee scheduling to onboarding, employee engagement, applicant tracking, and more. This next-generation platform ultimately makes it easier for your business to serve valued members of the community, advancing the greater good while simultaneously reducing your turnover rate for a better bottom line.

We invite you to try a demo of our workforce management tools. Our employee experience platform will help your hotel or restaurant frontline meet its true potential while saving you a bundle of money in the process. 

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