Archive for May, 2009

MrSchedule.com (Who We Are)

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 by Rick Taylor

How much time are your managers spending creating schedules?

Are your managers performing all of the calculations required to make accurate schedules or are they just guessing?

Do you lose employees who say that they didn’t think they were supposed to work, because they had asked for that day off?
(Maybe the scrap of paper they left on the office desk just got lost)

Do you find employees receiving unauthorized overtime?

Are you sure that your managers are keeping in mind Minor Employee Limitations when scheduling?

Do your managment teams consistently achieve you labor goals? (Which daypart has to suffer to achieve those goals?)

What would happen if your schedule system could project your specific sales trends?

What would happen if you could complete a week’s schedules in a half-hour?

What would happen if you didn’t have dozens of time off requests lying around your offices that could get lost or magically dissappear?

Would you save time? Would you save money?

Of course you would! 

Fortunately, it is now possible to do everything I just mentioned, and a whole lot more, with MrSchedule.com - the online scheduling service from Benson Research, Inc.

We didn’t just create a tool to help you format your schedules and make them look pretty.  Instead, we analyzed schedules from the ground up, we interviewed the top schedule designers.  We studied them from every angle until we could create fantastic schedules again and again.  We took all we had learned and transformed it into more than 78,000 lines of code.

Our computers use this code to duplicate the tasks their human counterparts spent hours performing and automated the tasks into a process which now takes seconds!

MrSchedule.com doesn’t just make pretty schedules… Our systems makes completed schedules for you!  Using the concept of Computer Assisted Scheduling, the system monitors sales trends, then automatically schedules shifts according to the labor percentage specified by you for your restaurants.

Employees are ranked based on their skills to ensure that your strongest team members are allocated appropriately along each of your schedules.

Your employees can submit time-off requests to the system. Once your managers review and approve each request they will automatically be accounted for. It doesn’t matter if the request is two weeks, two months, or two years in the future… Once approved, MrSchedule will not schedule that employee for the approved time-off, and will find the next most qualified available person to replace them!

One of the core goals of MrSchedule.com is to greatly reduce the amount of time that your scheduling manager spends on the creation process. By automating the tedious, repetitive mathematical calculations, human error is virtually eliminated and the focus of the manager begins to shift away repetative mathmatical calulations towards building the individual skills of the employees.

The benefit is two-fold;

With MrSchedule.com the manager has more time to build that well-round work force…
A well-rounded work force helps the system create better schedules…

Your restaurant benefits…

From a well trained staff, scheduled to work to best serve your guests when they are in the restaurant.

Your managment teams are not frustrated by having to find the hours previously required each week to make schedules.