Spending big on your labour, but not seeing your sales increase?
Your labour budget is decided, and you aren’t cutting corners when it comes to spending it; you’re ensuring every shift is fully staffed and your team are working the hours – so why aren’t you taking more money?
Understandably, you may be quite frustrated with the amount of time and productivity you are getting out of your current rotas. You may even find that a lot of your team are in at points in the business where they just aren’t needed for the amount of guests.
You’ve likely had upwards of hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of cost pressures since April, and the easiest thing to do would be to say: “this amount of labour is not essential” and cut, cut, cut. But as a business, you cannot afford to compromise on how service feels on the floor and to your guests.
So, you’ve got to strike the right balance. The good news is, you don’t need to spend even more on your labour to make more money – what you need is control over where you are spending it, and an understanding of why.
How often have you walked into a venue and the service doesn’t match what they are trying to achieve? Hours shouldn’t have to be cut to fix this, but what needs to happen is a deep dive into the business to see when is most productive and when is not. It’s all about highlighting the finer aspects of rota-writing and how you plan your week.
S4labour’s tools are built to give you that control, so you have a confident platform to start growing sales from. Take a look at how we helped Grosvenor start expanding out on bigger sales.
“With some incremental changes to each business, it meant that, as a whole, Grosvenor became more productive, more efficient and certainly on site it gave a lot of control and knowledge to the fingertips of our general managers.”
Sam King, Business Director at Grosvenor Pubs and Inns.
Anybody would be a bit apprehensive about bringing in a new system, but S4labour will help your team, from head chefs to general managers, to start looking at the business in a sales-driven way, rather than a cost cutting way.
“So we put S4 in and you can actually see with the percentage of sales turnover that everything we made in that year was attributed to that control.”
Sam Hagger, Founder and Managing Director at The Beautiful Pubs Collective.
Join the operators already growing sales with S4labour. Book a demo to see what’s possible.