9%
of the staffing budget was going to hours the restaurants didn't actually need — every week.
Wasted the old way
Kaizen Dojo guesses how busy each restaurant will be, builds a schedule that costs less but still covers the rush, and warns you the second something's about to go wrong — using the cash register system you already have.
For most restaurants, paychecks are the biggest bill after food — and it's the easiest one to get wrong without ever noticing.
Ranked from the biggest money-saver down. Every one is running today, on real restaurants.
Think of a weather forecast, but for your restaurant. It learns from your own sales history — which days, which hours, which holidays — and refreshes its prediction every night.
The computer checks a huge number of possible schedules and keeps the one that costs the least while still having enough people for your busy times. A person could never check that many by hand.
Your strongest workers get sent to the rush, where they matter most — instead of being stuck on a slow afternoon by accident.
If one person works at two of your locations, the law adds their hours together. Kaizen does that math automatically, so you pay people correctly and stay out of legal trouble.
It tells your manager "you're about to be short-staffed in an hour" while there's still time to call someone in — not after the customers are already waiting.
It's like a video game version of your restaurant. Test a staffing plan against a fake Friday night and watch what happens — including customers who give up and leave — before it costs you real money.
No one gets stuck with 8 hours while someone else grabs 32. Fair, steady schedules keep your good workers — and keeping them is far cheaper than hiring new ones.
Sales, tips, taxes, tender types — 28 ready-made reports your accountant would otherwise build by hand in a spreadsheet. They just appear.
Break and meal rules are strict, and the fines are big. Kaizen keeps the math honest and flags problems early, so a small slip never becomes a costly one.
No new registers. No new hardware. It plugs into the Toast system you already run and starts saving you money on your very next payroll run.
Every day you've ever been open teaches it your pattern — busy lunches, dead Tuesdays, holiday spikes — down to each 15-minute slice of the day.
Then it compares a massive number of possible schedules and keeps the cheapest one that still covers every busy minute. That's the part that saves you real money.
Past a certain point, adding people costs a lot and barely helps your service. Kaizen finds the sweet spot — the most service for the least money — instead of just guessing high to feel safe.
If any part of the system stops working, a backup notices and sounds the alarm — so problems get caught in minutes, not weeks.
On paper, their labor costs looked normal. But when Kaizen lined up their staffing against how busy they actually were, every store was paying for about 9% more hours than they needed — quietly, every week. Same service, a lot less money.
Some employees worked at more than one location. Each store's payroll looked fine on its own. But the law says you add a person's hours together — and once Kaizen did that, 1,155 hours of unpaid overtime appeared. A lawsuit waiting to happen, caught before it happened.
The old schedule kept accidentally putting star employees on quiet afternoons and leaving the dinner rush thin — about 5 hours a week of top talent in the wrong place. Kaizen matches your best people to your busiest times. Better nights, same payroll.
Kaizen Dojo is a smart assistant for your restaurants — it predicts your busy times, builds a schedule that costs less but still covers them, and catches money leaks before they hurt.
You're probably paying for hours you don't need and missing overtime you legally owe. Kaizen finds both — and pays for itself on the first payroll run.
Know you're about to be short-staffed before the rush hits, not after. Spend your night running service, not redoing the schedule.
Every report is ready, tips and taxes are sorted, and the tricky break-and-overtime math is done right — so audits stop being scary.
Most scheduling apps just give you a nicer calendar to fill in yourself. Kaizen actually tells you the right number of people to have, and exactly when — then watches all day to make sure it stays right.