Workforce Management & Scheduling

CrunchTime!’s Workforce Management solution helps you align your staffing needs with your business by formulating labor allocations that correlate each position to menu items, sales volumes and guest traffic. From one simple and intuitive interface, a manager can easily administer employee information, adjust time-clock records, and create demand-based schedules that are derived from historical sales and traffic patterns, future sales forecasts, and the availability and skill levels of your people.

CrunchTime! pushes employee information and schedules down to the POS and sends payroll and employee data up to the payroll system to reduce managers’ overhead and ensure payroll accuracy. The solution allows you to easily on-board new employees through an intuitive web interface that includes dynamic task lists, workflows, dashboards and alerts, while centrally tracking performance, attendance and task completion across all restaurants. CrunchTime! enables you to clearly define business goals, streamline communications, increase accountability, and create best practices across your enterprise. Features include:

• Enterprise View - Gain a comprehensive view of your workforce through full integration to your business systems including POS, Payroll, Time Clock and Biometric devices.
• Right Staffing - Reduce costs associated with over and under-staffing. Demand-based scheduling is derived from looking forward at your sales and guest traffic forecasts and looking back at your historical consumption and traffic patterns, while enforcing your proven staffing level templates.
• Staffing Templates - Utilize cost-effective staffing templates that correlate your sales range to the optimum number of scheduled employees in each position.
• Easy to Use Scheduling - CrunchTime!’s simple and intuitive scheduling interface incorporates color coding and configurable validation checks as you create and adjust schedules in real-time.
• Scheduling Adjustments -The 100% web-based solution allows for easy access to schedules 24x7 from any browser.
• Employee Sharing - Utilize a collaborative platform to manage and share employees across restaurant locations and across different job codes.
• Shift Management - Define the rules and relationships between time-of-day, job codes, skills, tasks, and menu items that underlie schedules, training, skill certifications and task assignments.
• Menu Mix Scheduling - Associate job codes to specific menu items you sell. Create schedule forecasts that ensure you have the right number of people, in the right positions, at the right time of the day to meet your customer demand based on actual historical menu item sales trends.
• Overtime Alerts - Receive system-generated alerts before overtime violations occur to adjust schedules and reduce unnecessary costs.
• Empower your Employees - Equip your teams with tools that are intuitive and easy to use, including personalized dashboards, task lists, and alerts. Ensure your employees are focused on top priority tasks.
• Performance Management - Track employee performance, attendance, and task completion, and evaluate against best-practice standards. Reward top performers and use CrunchTime! as a coaching tool to raise the bar.
• Multi-Language - User-specific language preferences ensures ease-of-use and concise communication for multi-lingual employees.
• Security - Information and system access are secured by user and audit trails are created for all critical transactions.
• Labor Law Compliance - Enforce compliance with local, state, federal and company labor laws, including break laws, minor laws, and overtime guidelines.