Restaurant Management with Employee Time Clock & Point of Sale Systems

With the introduction of the electronic cash register in the early 1980’s, restaurants could use it to clock in/out employees. This eliminated the need for a punch card and greatly increased accuracy and reduced manpower needs in calculating time worked for payroll purposes.

However, there is now a wide range of different labor laws, tip reporting requirements and labor restrictions governing the number of hours that can be worked in a day/week, when minors are allowed to work and so on. These have greatly increased the demands placed upon management, so the simple employee clock in and out on a register terminal is no longer sufficient.

Restaurant Time Clock Requirements

Some of the complexities of restaurant management include:

Obviously, tracking the clock in and out times for your employees.
Complying the government regulations for different aspects of your labor pool.
Tip reporting and handling - help tracking tipped employees and what they declare as tips earned.
Tracking employee breaks - some states govern the length of breaks and whether they are paid or not. You need an integrated time clock and you need it bad.

Employee Time Clock Benefits

Some point of sale systems include an employee time clock system that is designed specifically for restaurants. Typical features include:

All employees can clock in/out on any terminal in the system. There is no set terminal that must be used by all employees.
Any employee may clock in on any terminal.
Security features

* Secret 4-digit employee code for clock in/out.

* Optional magnetic card reader and magnetic cards for employees to use when clocking in/out.

* Optional biometric reader which recognizes individual fingerprints for employee clock in/out.

* Employee breaks are tracked and various rules can be set depending upon your own state’s regulations.

Tipped employees are required to declare their tips earned when they clock out for the day. These declared amounts are then reported with their time worked.

Management Software

Most products are able to track and report on time clock data and support weekly, bi-weekly, bi-monthly and monthly payroll cycles.

Some point of sale products also export time clock data for use by accounting packages.

How A Restaurant Benefits From An Employee Time Clock

Increased accuracy over punch cards and manual time tracking.
Reduced rounding errors in computing time.
Reduced time for management to compute employee hours.
Improved management of breaks
Improved tip tracking and declaration for tipped employees.
Optional biometric scanners can eliminate “buddy punching”

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Restaurant Management with Employee Time Clock & Point of Sale Systems