08/31/2026
Real talk β by the time labor cost shows up wrong on your P&L, the damage is already done.
I learned this the hard way running Food Geeks. Someone clocks in 12 minutes early every shift. Another one forgets to clock out twice a week. Multiply that by 8 people over 30 days and you just lost money you never saw leave. That's not theft. That's just a system with no guardrails. The fix isn't firing people β it's catching it before it compounds.
Start here: pull your time records from last week and look for anything outside a 5-minute window of the actual shift start. That gap is costing you. Most operators don't check until payroll hits. Check before payroll hits.
What's the one labor leak in your operation you keep putting off fixing?