Payroll Software for Multi-unit Restaurants
Built for Multi-Unit Restaurants, Designed for Busy Teams
Streamline payroll and spend more time elevating the guest experience across locations.
In a multi-unit restaurant, you’re constantly juggling shifting schedules, high turnover, and pay rates that vary across roles and locations. Keeping payroll accurate becomes overwhelming with tips, tip credits, overtime, and labor laws that change from city to city. And with nonstop administrative work pulling you away from your staff, it’s harder than ever to keep every restaurant running smoothly.
82%
82% of multi-unit restaurants are short-staffed, averaging 4 open positions per location.
67%
67% of restaurant operators spend more than 100 hours per year processing payroll manually.
100%
As of 2025, the turnover rate for full-service restaurants can be as high as 100%, with quick service restaurants exceeding 130%.
Focus on your guests, let us take payroll and compliance off your plate.
Support You Can Trust
From onboarding to ongoing support, get fast, reliable service from specialists who understand the payroll and compliance demands of multi-location restaurants.
- Partner with a team that understands the complexities of restaurant payroll, while benefitting form U.S.-based service.
- Simplify compliance with wage and hour laws, paid leave requirements, multi-state reporting, and shifting labor regulations with expert guidance every step of the way.
- Deliver attorney-reviewed training (e.g., OSHA, workplace safety) through your LMS to stay compliant and safeguard all your locations.
Multi-unit scheduling just got easier.
Scheduling Made Effortless
Easily manage schedules across every restaurant, track hours accurately, and ensure precise payroll from one unified platform.
- Optimize staffing across roles with advanced scheduling tools designed for restaurant operators.
- Maintain verifiable, audit-ready time tracking with geofencing, ensuring employees clock in and out only from approved locations.
- Guarantee payroll accuracy by syncing real-time punches, rates, and roles from TRAY POS, time clocks, and attendance systems across all stores.
Precise payroll across every location.
Effortless Multi-unit Payroll
Run payroll in minutes across your locations, even with tips and multiple roles.
- Streamline payroll for hourly, salaried, and multi-role employees with built-in compliance safeguards that protect every location.
- Accurately calculate overtime, split shifts, dual rates, and tip-to-minimum adjustments for every employee at every location.
- Manage tax filing across multiple states and local jurisdictions, including tip credits, wage ordinances, and local labor rules.
All a Multi-unit Restaurant Needs in One Place
Payroll
Automated, compliant payroll that streamlines tax filing, worker’s comp, and built in error alerts.
Learn About Our Payroll SoftwareTime & Attendance
Payroll-connected tracking that manages time off, holidays, accruals, absences, and scheduling.
See Our Time Functionality in ActionCompliance
Integrated add-on services that automate record-keeping & reporting and makes HR legally compliant.
Applicant Tracking
Intuitive online recruiting that simplifies job postings, and manages applicants & hiring of employees.
Learn More About Applicant TrackingHR & Onboarding
HR Services that you need and expect like Performance Management, Learning Management, and HR Legal Advice.
Learn More About Our HR SoftwareBenefits Services
Comprehensive employee programs, refined for modern workforce needs, delivering confidence and compliance.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How can payroll software help multi-unit restaurants manage labor costs?
Payroll software helps multi-unit operators control labor costs by automating time capture, overtime, tip credits, and different pay rates across locations. Real-time payroll data shows labor spending by store or role, helping prevent overstaffing and ensuring labor stays aligned with sales. With connected time tracking, operators get accurate, location-specific labor cost reporting to support better scheduling and budgeting.
How does payroll software streamline wage calculations and compliance in multi-unit restaurants?
Payroll software automates complex wage rules like overtime, dual-rate pay, tip credits, tip pooling, and service charge distribution across multiple stores. It supports compliance with FLSA and differing state and local labor laws by applying the correct rules in each location. Built-in tax filing, error detection, and compliance alerts reduce manual work and help operators avoid costly violations.
What payroll challenges do multi-unit restaurants face most often?
Multi-unit restaurants juggle high turnover, inconsistent staffing needs, and employees working across multiple roles or locations. Managing tipped wages, varying pay structures, and different local labor laws makes payroll accuracy difficult. Automation helps streamline these complexities and reduce errors.
Do multi-unit restaurant groups usually have dedicated payroll teams?
Yes. Multi-unit restaurant groups often maintain dedicated payroll staff or shared HR/payroll roles due to the complexity of tipped wages, multi-role pay, and multi-state compliance. Focused oversight is essential to keeping payroll accurate across all locations.
How does payroll software improve efficiency in multi-unit restaurant operations?
Payroll software eliminates manual calculations by automating overtime, tip credits, dual-rate pay, and tax updates for every store. With scheduling and time data flowing directly into payroll, operators process pay faster and reduce errors across their locations.
How does payroll software help multi-unit restaurants attract and retain staff?
Accurate, on-time pay builds trust—especially in high-turnover environments. Payroll software prevents paycheck mistakes, gives staff easy access to pay information, and ensures tips and multi-role shifts are handled correctly. When employees trust their pay across locations, retention improves.