Schedule Cost Check
The BoardWhat you have scheduled, at your rates, against the week you expect.
The schedule gets posted on Wednesday and the payroll number arrives ten days later, by which point the week is over and there was nothing to be done about it anyway.
Next week's schedule costed at the wages you actually pay, shown against the sales you expect and the share of them you have decided you want. It shows where the payroll sits by role, because one blended figure hides whichever role moved.
About this tool
What Schedule Cost Check solves
A schedule is a spending decision that nobody prices until afterwards. The Schedule Cost Check takes the hours as written and the wage each person is actually paid, and gives the week's payroll before the week happens — broken out by role, so a kitchen that crept up is visible rather than blended into one number. Against that it puts two figures, and both are the owner's: the sales they expect, and the share of those sales they have decided payroll should be. From those it works out what the week affords at that target and how far above or below the schedule sits, in plain money rather than only in points. It will not guess next week's sales, because a tool that predicted takings from last week would be selling a forecast dressed as arithmetic. It carries no target of its own, because what share of sales your payroll should be is a decision about your business rather than a figure from a survey. And it computes nobody's take-home: tips, taxes, overtime and tip credit are specific to you, and it will not print a number it cannot show the working for.
Yours would be built the same way.
This one runs on made-up data. The version built for your business runs on yours, and you own it outright. Builds start at $2,500. That is a floor, not a quote. What yours costs is agreed before any work begins. The first conversation is free.