FoodiRestaurant Labor Cost Consulting
Labor is the cost that moves fastest and hurts most when nobody's watching. Foodi forecasts your sales, checks your schedule against it, and flags labor drift every week.
Schedules Built on Habit Cost You Every Week
Most schedules are copied from last week. Sales don't work that way. When labor doesn't flex with the business, with overstaffed slow shifts, overtime creeping in, and managers covering shifts they shouldn't, the cost lands on your P&L weeks later.
And with wages rising, every hour that doesn't match sales costs more than it used to.
How Foodi Handles Labor
Sales forecasting
Weekly forecasts built from your prior-year sales, so schedules start from the business you're actually going to do.
Scheduling to forecast
We compare scheduled hours with the forecast, so labor is planned to sales instead of to habit.
Overtime and drift alerts
Overtime, early clock-ins, and labor creeping above target flagged every week.
Labor by shift and position
See exactly where labor is heavy: by shift, by position, by day.
Manager training
We train managers to build schedules from the forecast, and train the next one when someone leaves.
What a Few Points Are Worth
A $2M restaurant that brings labor down 2 points keeps an extra $40,000 a year.
Illustrative example. Not a guaranteed result.
How It Fits Into Your Weekly Report
Everything on this page shows up in your Foodi Tracker every Monday, next to sales, labor, and projected profit — so you see the whole picture, not one department at a time.
See an example tracker →Labor Cost Consulting: Common Questions
Many operators look at labor together with food cost as prime cost, and full-service restaurants often aim to keep prime cost at or below roughly 60–65% of sales. The right labor target depends on your service style and menu. Foodi sets it with you and tracks it every week.
Foodi doesn't replace your managers. We give them a sales forecast and a labor target, review the schedule against it, and train them to build schedules that hit it.
Yes. Foodi works from the labor reports in your POS or scheduling system, whatever you use today.
Find out where your labor dollars are really going.
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