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Chapter 7
Managing Employees
Using the Time and Attendance
(T&A) Module
The Time and Attendance (T&A) module is a full
featured employee time management system and
seamlessly integrates with the Maitre'D POS Control
module allowing restaurants to manage employee
schedules, keep track of their time, manage their
hourly rates, and assign their tasks. When used
with the POS Control module, restaurants can
calculate labor costs by comparing sales generated
by employees with the number of hours worked.
The Maitre'D T&A module can interface with
external devices such as magnetic card readers and
biometric devices to allow clock-in and clock-out
functionality, and also with third party payroll systems such as Automatic Data Processing (ADP) ®.
Managing Employees Using the
Time and Attendance Module
Employee records in the T&A module are different
from employee records in the POS Control module.
While the POS Control module records are used
strictly for POS workstation access, the employee
records in the T&A module are used to manage all
personnel employed by the restaurant such as
busboys, delivery drivers and cooks. Consequently,
T&A records can be linked with POS Control records
to take advantage of additional Maitre'D functions,
such as forcing employees to close all tables before
logging out and forcing employees to clock in
before entering transactions.
The T&A module also offers an extended set
of reports that allow restaurants to keep track of
the hours worked by employee and also to
measure performance and calculate labor costs.
The following are several features offered by
the Maitre'D T&A module.
Expanded Employee Information
The T&A module stores complete employee
information such as birth date, hiring date,
emergency contact information, marital status,
social security number, and more. The employee
record can also flag an employee as a manager,
to set the employee security access level and
the access password, and whether the employee
can print his or her personal time access card.
The default employee language can also be configured to reflect an employee's preferred language.
Shift Availability
The shift section allows restaurants to record
what shifts an employee is available to work.
Restaurants can generate availability reports and
use these reports to schedule employees for the
week. This allows restaurants to plan and organize
their staff beforehand and also to plan for backup
employees in case a scheduled employee is sick
or absent for any reason.