The tour · stop 5 of 7 · labor
See how many hands Saturday needs, fifteen minutes at a time.
The demand curve that says how many croissants Saturday wants also says how many hands. Butter puts tickets and staff on the same clock and writes the staffing call in shifts a person can actually be asked to work.
Do we need a third
person Saturday?
Labor is the biggest number on the P&L you can still change this week. Butter puts demand and crew in the same unit, so that question gets an answer with receipts instead of a feeling.
Shifts someone can actually work
Demand crosses the third-person line at 9:15, dips at 9:30, crosses back at 10:00. Read literally, that's a fifteen-minute shift, twice, which nobody can roster. Butter writes whole blocks, extends them toward the busier side, and lets the crew already on absorb the blips.
Pace learned from your own crew
How much one person clears in a quarter hour is learned from your own best runs and quoted back from a real day in your café. A quiet Tuesday is evidence about the Tuesday, never a verdict that your crew is slow.
Schedule vs actual, judged fairly
The published roster against Toast's punches: early, late, lingered, or never came, with a five-minute grace before anything reads as late. No verdict is built on Toast's invented auto-clock-out times, and a salaried manager who doesn't punch in is never marked a no-show.
A page for every person on payroll
Hours, reliability, pay basis, hire date and milestones. “Sells more when they're on” appears only after 8+ days on the floor and 30+ matched sales, for three items at most, and the tile stays empty until then.
The percentage, before it's history
Labor cost sits next to the last seven days of sales, split into the fixed part you committed to and the variable part the schedule controls, so the number you're judged on isn't a month-end surprise.
The weekly staffing call
One short note, timed to land before the schedule is written. A week with nothing worth changing sends nothing.
House rules · what this screen refuses to do
Some advice Butter refuses to give.
Butter will never tell you to cut below your minimum crew. An email is the worst possible place for advice an owner has to override on safety grounds: you can't argue with it, and the next one arrives whether or not you did. Butter also doesn't pad. With no finding worth acting on, it sends no message at all.
Staff on the Member role never see a named person's hours, pay, or tips. The database enforces that, so it isn't only hidden from the menu. The café-wide labor-cost number is a management number like any other, and everyone with app access sees it; it's people's individual pay that stays owner-and-Manager only.
shifts someone can workyour own pacefive-minute gracesilence over padding
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Schedule the rush you're actually going to have.
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