Run labour like you run revenue.

Restaurant workforce management software covers how you find, schedule, manage and pay the people running your restaurant: onboarding, scheduling, time cards, holidays and absence, team communication, and the handoff to payroll. The best of it connects to your sales data so the rota matches actual demand, and shows you labour cost as it happens rather than weeks after the month closes. Some operators search for this as restaurant staff management software or restaurant staffing software — same category.

The Scheduling Assistant uses your sales forecast, your configured labour targets and your team's availability to recommend how many people you need, when, and for which positions. GMs review and adjust — they don't build from scratch. The aggressiveness setting lets your ops team control how lean or generous the model runs per site, so each location can be set to its own labour strategy without re-training every GM. This is the engine behind Nory's restaurant scheduling software.

Yes. Most Nory customers see labour cost reduce by 10–25% in the first weeks, depending on starting point and how disciplined the team is on the rota. Passyunk Avenue cut labour cost by 26% across locations. Josie's cut it by 23% in four months. Barge East by 10%. The pattern: set labour targets per site, let the Scheduling Assistant build to them, and watch the planned vs actual gap close week by week.

Nory handles the workforce side end-to-end: rotas, time cards approved on the floor, tips calculated from POS data and your distribution rules. Approved hours and tips export clean to your payroll provider in the format they need, so your finance team isn't manually reconciling on a Tuesday morning. Full integrated Nory Payroll is launching Q3 2026; until then the handoff is automated but the actual payroll calculation runs in your existing tool. Even pre-full-integration: time cards stop being a spreadsheet disaster, tips are documented and consistent, and your restaurant workforce payroll workflow runs without re-keying.

Yes. Employees onboard via the team app (digital documents, contracts, personal information), see their shifts and holiday balance, request time off, swap shifts, and receive feedback. Managers approve time cards, manage absence and shift changes from their phone. A separate AI HR Assistant (currently in beta) can answer employee questions from your uploaded policies — useful for groups looking to take simple restaurant HR management queries off the manager's plate.

Nory tracks the rules you configure: overtime premiums, break rules, working time regulations, holiday accruals. When a schedule breaks one of those rules, Nory flags it before publish. To be clear: you set the rules, Nory enforces them. Nory does not independently verify that your configured rules meet your jurisdiction's law — that's the operator's call (or your legal team's), with our settings as the enforcement layer. Automated compliance verification is on the roadmap for later in 2026.

The bulk of the setup is in your labour configuration: positions, pay rates, overtime rules, break rules, holiday accrual methods, labour targets per site. Once that's done, scheduling, time cards, absence and tips all run on it. Day-to-day work (rota build, clock-in, approving time cards, requesting time off) is designed to be mobile-first and fast — particularly valuable for groups managing multiple restaurants where consistency across sites depends on a workflow every GM can actually follow.