Free restaurant planning tool

Know your labor line before the schedule drifts.

Turn weekly sales, paid hours, loaded wage, and a target percentage into a labor cost line you can review at the close.

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LABOR COSTEXAMPLE
Weekly sales$6,000Current example
Loaded payroll$3,234210 paid hours
Labor cost53.9%Before one action

A visible line makes the next schedule review easier.

Free labor cost calculator

Turn payroll into a weekly operating line.

Use weekly sales, paid hours, loaded hourly wage, and your target labor percentage. Your numbers stay in the browser and are not uploaded.

This is a planning estimate. Confirm payroll definitions, local rules, and the period with your actual records.

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Your labor line will appear here

Enter the five inputs and calculate weekly payroll, labor percentage, and hours against target.

After the calculation

Keep hours, payroll, and the next action visible.

The calculator gives you a line; the weekly pack keeps sales, direct cost, inventory, labor notes, and follow-up actions together.

Next stepTurn the result into a weekly operating routine.The editable pack keeps inventory, purchases, waste, and actions visible by period.Choose the weekly pack

How to read it

Use labor cost as a control line, not a blunt cut.

Compare the same definitions and period before changing a schedule. The result does not replace payroll, tax, employment, or professional financial advice.

01

Load the real wage

Include the payroll burden you use for planning so the hourly cost is comparable with the sales period.

02

Compare dollars and hours

Review both the target payroll dollars and the hours implied by the loaded wage.

03

Choose one driver

Test sales, deployment of hours, wage mix, or the target definition one at a time before changing the schedule.