Payroll for Restaurants

Payroll Management Solutions for Restaurants

From calculating tips to addressing hiring needs, fluctuating schedules, turnover, and a range of employee types, restaurants must deal with a number of dynamic challenges to keep payroll and daily operations on track. 

That’s why Workforce PayHub offers customized, compliant, and precise payroll solutions specifically designed to meet the unique needs of the restaurant industry. Our restaurant payroll services help you retain employees, improve time tracking, avoid noncompliance penalties, run payroll accurately, and manage a large workforce with greater ease. 

Let’s explore the specific industry challenges most restaurants face and how Workforce PayHub can help you concretely address and resolve each issue.

Payroll for Restaurants

 

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Calculating Payroll for Restaurants

Choosing Tailored Payroll Services with Workforce PayHub

When restaurants rely on spreadsheets or an outdated, paper-based approach to payroll, time tracking, and related HR processes, it compounds existing workforce issues and detracts from important day-to-day operations.

Workforce PayHub offers an intuitive, modern payroll solution for restaurants that streamlines payroll, timekeeping, and related HR processes to help your restaurant achieve seamless day-to-day operations and focus on business growth. Our payroll and HR software, combined with our expertise in local, state, and federal labor law compliance, empowers your restaurant and staff do all of the following:

Streamline Payroll Processing

Enjoy automated wage calculations regardless of an employee’s classification, role, pay rate, and hours worked. This includes tip management and overtime tracking so your business remains tax- and labor law- compliant.

Automate Tax Withholding

Withhold all required local, state, and federal taxes and utilize compliance monitoring to ensure applicable wage and hour laws are honored.

Offer Direct Deposit and Timely Pay

With our payroll solution, you can easily establish direct deposit pay that is timely, accurate, and consistent - reducing turnover, bypassing noncompliance penalties, and improving employee satisfaction.

Analyze Detailed Payroll Reporting

Our reporting features allow you to assess financial and workforce data from each pay cycle so you can make improved staffing decisions and understand labor costs.

Ensure Long-Term Compliance

HR compliance for restaurants can be a major challenge when addressed without professional support. Our payroll solution provides peace of mind by ensuring adherence to all tax and labor laws that apply to your business, as well as support with employee training and documentation.

Why Do you Need Specialized Payroll for Restaurants?

Workforce PayHub offers customized payroll processing, time management solutions, and HR services tailored to the restaurant sector's unique challenges. These include:

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Time Management

When your employees use a paper-based or disjointed digital approach to logging hours, it can cause major delays and inaccuracies during the payroll process, leading to late or inaccurate payments, employee turnover, or noncompliance penalties. Additionally, a growing number of employees expect greater transparency, including 24-7 access to an employee self-service portal that lets them track time, update personal information, and access other HR services.

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Managing Tips and Overtime

Whether tips are kept by individual employees or shared by staff, it’s essential to accurately calculate each employee’s taxable income, track tips for workers with multiple roles, address varied pay rates, and align with local and state regulations regarding minimum wage, the use of tip credits, overtime tracking, and meal & rest breaks.

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Adhering to Labor Regulations

Given the diverse range of employee classifications, schedules, and roles, restaurants face a higher risk of noncompliance, particularly during high employee turnover, which requires quick recruiting, hiring, onboarding, training, and workforce management. Due to the fast-paced nature of restaurant operations, it is crucial to have experts who can help monitor and comply with local, state, and federal labor regulations that frequently change, as well as optimize hiring, onboarding, and other HR processes that are closely tied to payroll.

Integrated HR Support

While modernizing payroll and securing compliance support can be a game changer for any restaurant, these tools and services are strengthened when they are integrated with other HR services that are closely connected with payroll.

Workforce PayHub offers seamless integration between payroll and additional HR services like time tracking, benefits administration, training & certification tracking, performance management, and much more – all adapted to meet the needs of your restaurant.

Time & Labor Management

Our time and labor management solution allows employees to clock in/out, schedule, and request or review time off using a computer, smartphone, or tablet. Restaurant managers can review and approve requests remotely, manage scheduling parameters (establishing blackout periods), and permitted users can gain access to a wide range of data to assist with time tracking and workforce management, all synced as needed to your payroll platform.

Employee Benefits Administration

Our benefits solution makes it easy and intuitive to organize employee data, quickly connect with carriers, grant employees access to eligible benefits, and make open enrollment streamlined, effortless, and easy for your restaurant employees to complete from any web-connected device.

Training & Certification Tracking

Whether it’s during the onboarding process or another stage of the employee lifecycle, our software simplifies training and certification tracking, consolidating important data and documents regarding completed training dates, training type, work authorization requirements, and much more.

Performance Management

Our performance and workforce management tools grant you access to extensive data about scheduling/time off trends, productivity and profitability by location or pay period, and other performance-based data that can inform your hiring, scheduling, budgeting, and workforce decision-making.

Monitoring Payroll for Restaurants

Payroll Peace of Mind with Workforce PayHub

Managing your restaurant’s payroll and related HR processes with a disorganized or paper-based approach increases the risk of issues with employee retention, scheduling, noncompliance penalties, and much more.

At Workforce PayHub, we offer a specialized payroll solution for restaurants in the Great Lakes region, leveraging leading-edge software and years of compliance & HR expertise to help your business return focus to core tasks, business growth, and essential day-to-day operations.

Frequently Asked Questions for Restaurant Payroll

What is unique about a restaurant workforce?

Most restaurants employ a high number of hourly employees and must accurately calculate wages, tips (shared or individualized) and overtime while addressing ongoing concerns like employee turnover, scheduling consistency, and time tracking to keep day-to-day operations running smoothly and avoid noncompliance penalties. 

What are the main benefits of restaurant payroll software?

The right payroll software solution eliminates the need for manual calculations, automates tax withholding (local, state, and federal) for your employees, ensures compliance with labor laws, and facilitates timely and accurate payments to employees, including through direct deposit.

What are common restaurant payroll problems?

Using a paper- or spreadsheet-based approach to payroll can lead to significant organizational problems including inaccurately recorded hours, inaccurate overtime payments and late payments to employees. Furthermore, improper tax deductions that could lead to employee lawsuits, increased turnover, or noncompliance penalties.

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