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. No vendor pays to appear on this site, to rank higher in a comparison, or to keep a competitor out of one.
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.