A reference for people who run more than one location and do not have a corporate HR department behind them.
Most advice written for restaurants assumes a single site and an owner who can watch the floor. Operators Daily is written for the other situation: four locations, eleven, forty — where a scheduling decision is a policy, a wage change is a spreadsheet, and nobody is watching every shift.
We publish guides, benchmark data, software comparisons and compliance references on hiring, scheduling, payroll and the rules that change by state and by year. Every piece is written to be used at work, not skimmed.
Operators Daily is an independent publication supported by Workstream, a workforce management company. That relationship pays for the research and the writing, and we think you should know it before you read anything here.
What it does not buy is coverage. No vendor pays to appear on this site, to rank higher in a comparison, or to keep a competitor out of one — including Workstream, which is covered on the same terms as every other product we write about.
Figures link to the primary source — a state labour department, a filing, a published study — and carry the date they were checked.
Every piece is exactly one of Software, Data & Benchmarks, Compliance or Guides. You know what kind of thing you are reading before you click.
Comparisons are built on published capability and pricing. A vendor cannot buy a position, a badge, or a mention.
When we get something wrong we fix it on the page and say what changed and when, rather than editing quietly.
Compliance content is reference material, not legal advice. Wage rules, coverage thresholds and filing requirements change — sometimes mid-year — and they vary by jurisdiction. Check the primary source we link to before you act on anything, and talk to your own counsel for your own situation.
A small team of writers and editors with operations and workforce backgrounds. Every piece is reviewed against its sources before it goes up.
Corrections, data we should cover, or a product we have not looked at yet.