Labour cost analytics for hospitality operators

Most hospitality operators know labour is one of their biggest controllable costs. Few have the tools to stay ahead of it.

Tahola-AI connects your workforce management system to your sales and bookings data, so every manager can see how staffing and trading performance relate to each other and act on it during the shift.

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Common labour problems:

Rotas are built on last week's numbers, not what is actually forecasted.

Overstaffing goes unnoticed until the wage percentage lands at period end.

Understaffing only becomes obvious once the shift is already running short.

What Tahola-AI delivers:

✅ Labour analysis

Review labour usage by day, day part, hour and 15 minute interval across every site, region and brand.

Break down spend by department so the opportunities are visible before they become problems.

✅ Labour efficiency

See which days, day parts and departments are deploying labour incorrectly by comparing actual hours against forecast, budget and comparable sites.

The result is a clear picture of where improvements can be made and where money can be saved.

✅ Tracking

Labour is monitored continually against forecast, actual and budget.

When something moves, your ops teams find out in the moment, with enough time to change the result rather than explain it afterwards.

✅ Scenario modelling

Before National Living Wage increases, National Insurance changes or TRONC alterations hit your P&L, model their impact on the wider business.

Plan around what is coming rather than reacting to it.

What this means for you

Cost control

See wage percentage against sales, track labour spend by department and site, and understand exactly where your labour budget is going rather than finding out at period end.

Demand-led planning

Historic EPOS sales data and future bookings combine to forecast labour demand by hour and daypart, giving managers a reliable starting point for every rota rather than a best guess.

Operational visibility

Monitor labour performance across every site, track variance to forecast as it happens, and receive automated alerts when labour costs deviate from plan while there is still time to act.

Cost control

Demand-led planning

Operational visibility

Labour integrations

Connect the workforce management platforms you already use and your labour data flows into Tahola-AI automatically.

RotaReady
Fourth
S4Labour
Harri

Need something else? We build custom integrations for any platform with an API or data export.

“Tahola-AI saves our Operations and Finance teams hours each week and helps us spot opportunities we were missing before, all for a fixed monthly fee.”

Andrew Brook

Head of IT at Tortilla

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A typical agenda:

Introductions (5 minutes)
What are your current challenges (5 minutes)
High-level slides inc. pricing (5 minutes)
Product demo and continuous Q&A (40 minutes)

Outcomes:

An in-depth technical demo
A link to pricing and a bespoke proposal

Feel free to focus us on what you need from the call.

"We now have a unified, structured data platform that gives us the ability to analyse revenue and sales mix across all of our venues, no matter where they are.

This is a huge step forward in how we use data to drive the business."

Jason Dale

Technical Director, Red-Engine