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HR & Payroll Legislation Report

Download Fourth's essential HR & Payroll Legislation Report to understand the 2024 legislation updates effecting hospitality employers. Discover how to simplify compliance, automate processes and reduce admin burden.

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Lancaster Brewery reduce labour costs using Intelligent Scheduling

Get the lowdown on how Lancaster Brewery use Fourth’s AI-driven Intelligent Scheduling to accurately forecast demand and optimise their workforce scheduling and productivity.

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The Hospitality Workforce Report: H1 2024

Download The Hospitality Workforce Report, exploring 2023 festive trading figures and workforce trends that are set to impact operators this year.

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Boosting Sales by 15%: Thai Leisure’s Journey to Operational Excellence with Fourth

Explore the journey of Thai Leisure as they transitioned from manual to automated operations, partnering with Fourth to streamline scheduling, enhance accuracy, and drive a remarkable 15% sales increase.

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The Hospitality Workforce Report: H2 2023

Fourth’s latest workforce update research report shows that UK headcount is down 2.4%, and Deloitte predicts that labour shortages will continue into 2025. Against a backdrop of ongoing uncertainty, a trained and engaged workforce is a high value asset for every operator.

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SSP

SSP revolutionized employee recruitment and retention with Fuego from Fourth. Seamless integration, earned wage access, and enhanced benefits boosted satisfaction and simplified hiring.

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Comptoir

See how the leader in Lebanese cuisine conquers the day with Fourth to modernise their operations to hire, schedule, stock, and invoice in minutes and hours—not days and weeks.

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Braum’s

Learn how one of the nation’s most beloved brands streamlines scheduling to drive sales and employee retention with Hot Schedules from Fourth.

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Sun Pubs

Sun Pubs began using the Fourth HR and Payroll Services solution at the beginning of 2020. Formerly outsourcing with another provider, Sun Pubs quickly experienced the difference in service with Fourth’s responsive, reliable services team.

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Are you ready to find your A-Team?

Globally, it seems like every headline you read about the hospitality and retail industry is about the worrying labour shortage issue. A great Applicant Tracking System offering a smooth, efficient, and professional experience is essential in the current hiring landscape. Read our guide on how technology can help you find your A-team.

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Fourth eClock: An accurate, affordable, reliable time and attendance app

Fourth’s brand-new eClock kiosk app is an automated time and attendance solution for businesses to take control of labour costs, ensure accurate payroll and manage productivity. Fourth eClock captures data in real-time, automatically synchronising and integrating with Fourth’s Scheduling and Payroll solutions, to drive efficiencies and enable workers and managers to do more with less.

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23 Restaurants

Attracting and retaining the right team members in the current labor shortage crisis requires that restaurants compete for talent by putting people first.

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A View from the Experts: The Shape of Retail 2023

Post-pandemic, many retailers were hopeful for sustained growth and recovery. Instead, they face rising inflation, and a cost-of-living crisis, and have seen the day-to-day cost of running a brick-and-mortar store peak.

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The Hospitality Workforce Report

The current economic climate has continued to challenge hospitality operators since we shared our last Hospitality Workforce Report in August, with spiralling energy and food costs, supply chain disruption and labour shortages threatening to impact profits.

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Navigating The Retail Industry Today

As we enter the festive season, the retail industry faces new challenges. So what are the emerging trends for retailers, employees, and consumers?

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The Hospitality Workforce Report

While the hospitality landscape continues to be fraught with challenges related to inflation and soaring costs, consumer confidence and supply chain disruption, our latest insights uncover that the workforce is showing signs of positive development.

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Fourth’s Workforce Management Solution for Retailers

The world of retail has changed greatly over the years and the pandemic has fast-tracked its evolution.

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Cost of Living: Supporting your retail workforce as the crisis deepens

The retail industry has experienced a period of instability, navigating talent shortages as a result of Brexit and the pandemic. Now, new challenges have emerged, with the rising cost of living creating challenges for consumers and retailers alike.

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The Four Seasons Hotel

Throughout the years, the iconic Four Seasons Hotel, Park Lane, London, operated with a traditional labour model, hiring core team members on 40 hours contracts to ensure maximum coverage to deliver the five star experiences their guests had come to expect.

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Ready to Supercharge Your Labour Productivity?

Although the hospitality industry has suffered greatly over the past year, figures for the accommodation sector are encouraging, with inbound tourism set to reach £57 billion by 2025.

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The Jardine Restaurant Group

When the global pandemic tipped the world upside down, the international hospitality industry was put under strain and to a halt.

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The Hospitality Workforce Report

Our latest workforce report for 2021 is now available and comes at a crucial time.

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Talent, convenience, and technology: The Retailer’s guide for 2022

Retailers in the UK have faced a perfect storm of challenges in 2021, with forced closures due to Covid-induced lockdowns, falls in retail sales volumes, redundancies, talent shortages and supply chain issues.

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Burger King

Burger King UK (BK UK) prides itself in its start-up mentality – innovative, data driven, and scalable.

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Nando’s

Nando’s ANZ knew that they would need to update and modernize their back office technology if they were going to successfully move the business forward.

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Big Bus Tours

Big Bus Tours was a business that was stuck in the past, using time-consuming methods to handle operations. When they decided to invest in labor management tools, there was a huge difference across the board with the overall happiness of the staff and management team.

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Labour Optimisation with Noodles and Company

Each time we interact with restaurant leaders and their management teams, we ask them what their biggest operational challenge is – and they always say labor.

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Paul UK: Keeping Connected During COVID 19

Paul UK, an artisan bakery, boasts a 37-stong estate and offers a taste of France with its delicious pastries, cakes and coffee.

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P.F. Chang’s

A HotSchedules customer since 2005, P.F. Chang’s expanded its partnership with HotSchedules in 2019 by implementing HotSchedules’ Labor Optimization module to reduce labor costs across the business through advanced forecasting.

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Blaze Pizza

Blaze Pizza is one of the hottest brands in the nation. In 2018, it topped Franchise Times’ Fast & Serious list, the pub’s annual ranking of the smartest-growing restaurants in the industry.

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Joliet Slammers Stadium

With help from HotSchedules, Fremarek has been able to reduce overall labor cost, achieve faster scheduling and much more!

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Texas Corral

Pen and paper weren’t going to cut it for the 11-unit Texas Corral team. After piloting the HotSchedules Labor Management solution and seeing the immediate benefits of having scheduling, communication, and compliance all in one solution, they rolled it out across the entire organization.

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Krystal

Krystal has been an institution in the South for more than 80 years. This quick-service brand serves freshly grilled burgers (as well as hot dogs, chicken, fries, milkshakes, and more) in more than 350 stores across 11 states.

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Flix Brewhouse

Whether you want brunch and a rom-com or pizzas and the latest Oscar favorite, Flix can make it happen. Find out how Flix ensures that they’re training every team member to deliver fast, high-quality service, every showing with the help of Talent Development powered by SchooX.

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Hopdoddy Burger Bar

For the last three consecutive years, Business Insider has named Hopdoddy Burger Bar the best burger joint in America. And that fanfare is well-earned – the Austin, TX, restaurant’s hip, funky atmosphere is infectious, and so is the team’s attitude.

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Stonegate Pub Company

David Ross, CFO at Stonegate Pub Company, highlights key aspects around their journey to improve Labour Productivity. View the summary below, or complete the form underneath to view the full case study video.

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Fuller’s Inns

Jonathon Swaine, Managing Director, shares how Fourth’s Workforce Management solution has helped increase labour percentage over sales, while Purchasing, Inventory and Recipe & Menu Engineering solutions have helped eliminate supplier overcharge and improve profitability.

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Drake & Morgan

James Sherrington, CFO, shares how Fourth’s Workforce Management ensures compliance with legislation, while Inventory and Recipe & Menu Engineering allows them to make truly informed decisions.

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Fairfax Meadow

Fairfax Meadow is one of the UK’s largest catering butcher, headquartered in Derby and turning over more than £150m. Tony Carlisle, Head of IT & Systems, shares why they chose the Fourth Platform to help reduce paper, streamline processes and grow their business.

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Rick Stein Group

Rick Stein OBE started in hospitality with his ex-wife Jill in 1975, and their company now includes 12 restaurants, four retail shops, a bar, an online shop, a cookery school, 40 bedrooms and self-catering accommodation. All of which are supported by a sophisticated food production and distribution operation.

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wagamama

Former CEO, David Campbell, shares how using Fourth’s solutions have improved scheduling, inventory management and decision making at wagamama.

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Stonegate Group

Simon Kaye, Ex-COO of Intertain and Consultant to Stonegate, shares how Fourth’s solutions helped streamline payroll, ensure compliance with eligibility to work legislation, and make sure they have the right staff in the right place at the right time.

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Red Carnation Hotels

Learn how the Red Carnation Hotel Collection improved their workforce management, increased efficiency and improved communications using Fourth.

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