Key changes in holiday pay entitlements, effective from April 2024, aim to simplify how holiday pay is calculated. Learn what the holiday pay reforms are, what businesses should consider when preparing for the reforms and how technology can automate calculations, reduce admin and increase accuracy.
3 Steps to Stay Ahead of National Minimum Wage Legislation Changes
3 Steps to Stay Ahead of National Minimum Wage Legislation Changes
Discover three steps to stay ahead of National Minimum Wage legislation and ensure your business remains compliant. Learn how to navigate uniform expenses, cap salary sacrifices, and maintain accurate timekeeping to avoid penalties and promote fair labour practices.
Transforming Garden Centre Dining: How embracing technology can improve operational excellence.
Transforming Garden Centre Dining: How embracing technology can improve operational excellence.
Garden Centre Retail's Joe Wilkinson speaks to Stewart Maranello on how fit-for-purpose hospitality technology can optimise garden centre dining operations.
Garden Centre restaurants and cafés emerged as the top revenue growth category for Garden Centres in 2023, reinforcing their integral position to Garden Centres. Download our Garden Centre Dining Report to discover how adopting technology solutions tailored for restaurants is essential for enhancing profitability.
How to Supercharge your Garden Centre Dining Operations
How to Supercharge your Garden Centre Dining Operations
The boom in dining presents a fantastic opportunity for Garden Centre operators to expand their restaurant and cafe offerings to capture the demand from consumers. However, running a considerable dining operation presents a new set of challenges for operators, requiring specialist knowledge and technology to run efficiently. Find out how to optimize your garden centre dining operation in this webinar.
Lancaster Brewery reduce labour costs using Intelligent Scheduling
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.
A positive 2023 for Garden Centres Courtesy of Catering
A positive 2023 for Garden Centres Courtesy of Catering
Fourth’s Barry Lane shares his assessment of the Garden Center Association’s latest barometer of trade figures and explains why catering is helping the sector to optimise through adversity.
How the 2024 minimum wage changes impact hospitality payroll teams
How the 2024 minimum wage changes impact hospitality payroll teams
The 2024 minimum wage changes were recently announced by the UK Government. Kathryn Wright, Fourth’s Director of UK Payroll, discusses the impact on hospitality payroll teams.
Catering helps UK Garden Centers chart a 2.27% sales increase year-to-date
Catering helps UK Garden Centers chart a 2.27% sales increase year-to-date
Fourth’s Barry Lane shares his take on this month’s Garden Centre Association barometer of trade figures, discussing what it could mean for UK garden centres as we head into the festive season.
Auto-Scheduling – the key to optimal shift patterns
Auto-Scheduling – the key to optimal shift patterns
There’s more to scheduling than predicting revenue and matching headcount. Find out how you can optimise your schedule while retaining complete control with Auto Scheduler.
Shift Pooling: harness the flexibility of your workforce
Shift Pooling: harness the flexibility of your workforce
Shift Pooling gives hospitality employees more flexibility while enabling operators to maximise labour efficiencies. In this article, we introduce Fourth’s latest capability, highlighting the benefits for workers, managers and operators.
AI Forecasting: Identify the insights that drive profitable actions
AI Forecasting: Identify the insights that drive profitable actions
Wondering what all the fuss is about when it comes to AI forecasting? In this article we take you through the ins and outs of AI forecasting for restaurants.
Fourth’s Barry Lane shares his take on September’s Barometer of Trade stats, released last week by the Garden Center Association, highlighting the parallels with the wider retail sector – and where garden centres outperform.
The latest GCA barometer of trade shows garden centres are weathering a challenging economic climate well, helped by diversification. Fourth's Barry Lane explores the highs and lows of August's data, sharing expert insight into how garden centres can supercharge their growth with data and analytics.
In bloom and heading for a boom: why workforce management has never been more critical for UK garden centres
In bloom and heading for a boom: why workforce management has never been more critical for UK garden centres
Evolution of garden centers: From retail to vibrant destinations, powered by innovation and diverse offerings. Tech solutions streamline operations, benefiting both staff and customer experience.
In a fast-paced environment such as retail, managers want daily operations to run as smoothly as possible. However, gaps in the internal communication flow can lead to frustrated employees, poor service, and increased turnover.
Fourth and Automated Analytics launch AI powered recruiting for hourly employees
Fourth and Automated Analytics launch AI powered recruiting for hourly employees
Fourth and Automated Analytics announce an exclusive partnership Automated Analytics to offer rapid recruitment via AI-powered programmatic bidding to US customers.