The Four-Day Working Week

The Four-Day Working Week

How Did Weekends Start? Considering a four-day working week for your business? 100 years ago it was likely that you only had one day off (if you were lucky). When did weekends become a thing? Dependent on which country you live in the general rules of thumb around how...
Breaching the 3 pm to 5 pm gap

Breaching the 3 pm to 5 pm gap

Optimising your shift patterns so that they work for you and your employees is no easy task! As an employer, it is important that you have the right staff at the right time for your business. Wages are the biggest single expense in the hospitality sector and having...
Six steps to an effective hospitality loyalty programme

Six steps to an effective hospitality loyalty programme

Loyalty programmes have long been the bastion of high street retailers who have used them effectively to drive engagement and increase sales. Hospitality, on the other hand, has been slower to embrace rewards programmes, but that trend is changing. Loyalty comes in...
Breaching the 3 pm to 5 pm gap

Five reasons to move to an online schedule

Most of us have worked in a restaurant or food service chain at some point in our lives. If you were like me, finding out your shifts for the week was never a simple task. I’d have to drive to the venue and check the work schedule in the back office or call in and...