When you own a restaurant, you have a lot to handle. There’s dealing with food suppliers, ensuring you’re up to health codes, employee hiring and onboarding, employee discipline and firing, and, of course, angry customers who see you as the solver of all of their problems. And those are far from the only challenges that come with owning a restaurant.
If your restaurant means so much to you, shouldn’t you be dealing with the most important parts of running a restaurant instead of getting bogged down in the weeds? You need to focus on the restaurant, your employees, and your customers instead of spending so much time trying to figure out the nuances that end up sapping the will of so many small business owners.
Small Business Solutions Let You Focus
Yes, payroll and taxes might be a necessary part of running a business, but unless you have an innate knack for them then you should probably leave them to the experts. You didn’t start a restaurant in order to do paperwork; you started it so that you could offer your food to the public (while turning a profit). Unfortunately, most small business owners get bogged down by payroll, taxes, and timekeeping. Get those numbers out of your head and onto the web!
Why should you take a look at the solutions we have here at Ally? Here are four very good reasons to consider working with us:
Keep Your Employees
If you own a restaurant, you know how important it is to keep good employees. Employees make good service happen, and good service is often rated more important than any other aspect of a restaurant…even the food! But unfortunately, employee turnover is very high even at excellent restaurants. The good employees will head off looking for greener pastures, while bad employees might just quit with no notice whatsoever.
Keeping employees might be difficult, but there are ways that you can improve your payroll and benefits in order to encourage them to stick around, which simply makes your life a lot easier. Ally Payroll Solutions offers quite a few ways to improve the logistics of your business that can improve the work day for employees and owners alike. While employees might not always be loyal to you, it’s still important to do what you can to keep them around for as long as possible. One way to do this is to make sure that they’re getting paid correctly, which means proper tracking of their hours, knowing when they’re at work, and ensuring that they’re accurately paid in every paycheck.
Ensure It’s All Legal
If your restaurant gets audited, you don’t want to be caught unready. Not keeping proper tax records can be ruinous to a small business owner. Negligence can lead to extensive fines, and the amount of time it takes to deal with the auditors can detract from time that should be spent working at the restaurant itself.
When you use our restaurant payroll software and tax management solutions, you’ll be ready should any legal entity take a look at the books. Even better, you’ll be confident that the numbers you show them are accurate, with Ally there to back you up.
All the Extras In One Place
Ally isn’t just about offering payroll for restaurants and making sure small business tax management is done correctly. We’re also one-stop-shopping for other needs that small businesses have, needs that often trip them up. These include Affordable Care Act Management, workers comp insurance, and small business insurance. That’s three more things off your checklist when you’re trying to focus on your business instead of bothering with paperwork!
Make It Easier On You
Let’s be honest, this is the primary reason that small business owners come to us. Restaurant payroll just isn’t something that most restauranteurs want to deal with. They’d rather come up with new dishes than sit in the back room after hours dealing with numbers. And if they do deal with numbers, they’d rather search for ways to increase revenues rather than make sure every employee’s paycheck has had the right deductions taken from it.
Let’s take a deeper look at how the payroll services for small business, as well as Ally’s other restaurant software solutions, can help.
Restaurant Payroll Services
The restaurant industry is one of the toughest types of business to keep proper track of payroll. While many small businesses just have to calculate how many hours an employee worked, restaurants have additional problems that can make payroll a pain point.
Tips
No doubt about it, tips are one of the hardest things to keep track of in the restaurant industry. Sure, it’s become easier as more and more people pay with credit cards, but keeping track of tips is far from easy and requires additional calculations that most restaurant owners have problems with — or simply don’t have the time to calculate! Since Ally specializes in restaurant payroll solutions, we always have the right calculations when you give us the right numbers.
Weird Work Hours
If you own a bar or restaurant that stays open into the wee hours of the morning or is open 24 hours, calculating how much an employee gets paid — and if they are getting overtime hours — can be difficult. That’s a breeze for Ally, who can handle the rules and laws around weird work hours no matter which state you’re in.
Online Restaurant Timekeeping Software
When you work with Ally, we can offer you both payroll services and timekeeping software at the same time. They’re designed to work well together so that you’re not having to juggle both of them and figure out employee attendance and pay at the same time.
Keep Track of Hours Worked
As we mentioned above, our online payroll service software is great at keeping track of tips. But in order to determine employee base pay, it’s important to keep careful track of the hours an employee works. Luckily, our different software works together so that you’re not having to put everything in in duplicate. One-and-done is how we like to do it at Ally Payroll Solutions.
Keep Track of Employee Attendance
Wait, did Amanda come in on Saturday or Sunday? You might remember that she came in at 3:00 and left at 8:00, but which day she was working — considering Saturday is at the end of one week and Sunday is at the beginning of another — could have repercussions if you get it wrong. With our payroll software, you’ll always know when someone was working and can verify that they worked the number of hours they were assigned.
Last Minute Employee Switches
Because evening work hours can drag late into the night, many employes want to switch schedules with another employee when they have a special evening planned. Our restaurant timekeeping software makes it easy to ensure that each employee is getting the credit for the actual number of hours they worked.
Restaurant Payroll Tax Management
Taxes. For many people, simply saying the word makes their eyes cross. A person can have a doctorate and make millions of dollars a year, but the idea of doing taxes might scare them.
The fact is, taxes are a mess. Even the easiest restaurant payroll taxes can cause restaurateurs to pull their hair out. Luckily, our small business tax management software can protect you from the most common problems that crop up, including taking out too much or too little from each paycheck. Our software will ensure the right amount is taken from each paycheck, no matter where you are in the country thanks to our federal, state, and local compliance. We’ll also send out annual tax statements for your employees.
Of course, having proper tax management for your restaurants can also help during an IRS audit. When you hear the word “audit,” your stomach no longer has to tighten because you’ll be in full compliance.
Required Benefits
Are you required to offer certain benefits to your employees? It can be difficult to tell if you need to, considering the varying number of hours each employee works. If you aren’t sure whether or not you have to offer employees benefits due to the Affordable Care Act, or just what kind of insurance you need to offer for workers comp, Ally can help you keep track of everything so that you’re in full compliance.
Ready To Get Help With Your Payroll and Taxes?
If so, you’ll be joining thousands of other small business owners who have decided to leave payroll and taxes to the experts so that they can focus on their restaurant. Ally has the best online restaurant payroll software around that can make your life so much simpler, allowing you to focus on your business instead of the paperwork. Contact us today to make your life a lot easier!