8 Things To Arrange Before Creating An Employee Schedule

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HOW TO PREPARE YOUR RESTAURANT SCHEDULE FOR AN
EMERGENCY

• Shift management is among the biggest challenges
  you will ever face as a restaurant owner,
  manager, or supervisor. You will not only have to
  ensure that you have enough manpower to
  efficiently handle all tasks you will have to
  come up with scheduling strategies that minimize
  labor costs, while at the same time making sure
  that you meet most, if not all, scheduling needs
  of your employees. Unfortunately, it might be
  impossible to accomplish all this if you are
  still using pen and paper to schedule your
  employees. To maximize the efficiency of your
  schedules, you will need a quicker and more
  accurate scheduling solution such as cloud-based
  scheduling software.
• Whatever shift management system you may be
  using, below are 8 things you will want to
  prepare or organize first before you create your
  daily, weekly, or monthly schedules

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• 1. Labor categories
• Arranging labor categories involves organizing
  and subdividing schedules and job codes. This
  information is basically controlled in pecking
  order, i.e. labor category-schedule-job code.
• 2. Schedules
• Arranging schedules will enable you to put
  workers with particular job codes into a given
  schedule with little to no difficulty.
• 3. Job codes
• In simple terms, job codes are the specific
  tasks or duties that employees perform together
  with the pay rates. As the manager, supervisor,
  or simply the person in charge of shift
  management in your restaurant, you probably know
  that if a particular employee works several
  positions, it is normal for him or her to have
  several job codes and schedules. For example, a
  bartender can also work as a server, and a server
  can also work as a bartender.

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• 4. Scheduling locations
• Setting up or arranging scheduling locations is
  a very important part of shift management as it
  makes it easy for you know exactly where a
  particular employee will be working so you can
  tie the locations to the job codes. Such
  locations include dinning area, bar, and so on.
• 5. Skill level and certifications
• Having such information within reach will enable
  you to make wise decisions about who to schedule
  where based on their proficiencies and
  certifications.
• 6. Day part information
• When we talk of day part information, we are
  referring to the day parts that are configured
  for a business, which for a restaurant are
  usually breakfast, lunch and dinner. Most
  restaurants usually have 2 day parts, which are
  AM or PM.

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• 7. Rules and parameters
• When it comes to shift management, rules and
  parameters will always come in handy, especially
  when it comes to time off requests. Such rules
  and parameters will prompt you to respect
  employee rights and to respect company policies
  too as you prepare employee schedules.
• 8. Time off requests
• Considering all time off request, especially the
  long-standing ones, will take your shift
  management skills a notch higher by significantly
  reducing absenteeism, building trust and
  increasing productivity, among many other
  benefits.

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Article Summary - It doesnt matter how many
headaches you incur over a schedule, the truth is
that creating an employee schedule that will
please all team members is next to impossible.
Nevertheless, it is still possible to create a
favorable staff schedule as we are about to see.
Read on to discover 8 tips that will turn shift
management into an easier and more successful
task for you.

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