Five steps for restaurants, cafés and cloud kitchens: shifts, attendance, service charge sharing and cash pay.
5 steps · About 25 minutes · Free for up to 10 employees
Restaurants, cafés and cloud kitchens run long shifts, share service charge and tips, and pay part of the team in cash.
This guide shows how to set up BizlumoAI for a restaurant in five steps, and how to share the month’s service charge fairly.
The whole setup in one video (15 min), from sign-up to the first payroll, step by step. Every step below is in it.
Pick Restaurant / Café as your business type when you sign up. It switches on the right features and makes the usual staff groups for you. You can change all of it later in Settings.
After you log in, a setup checklist stays in the corner of every page. Each step ticks itself when it is done, and clicking a step opens the right page.
Go to Employees and click Add Employee. Type the name, email and a password for the BizlumoAI app. Pick the department and position. The staff group Staff is picked for you. Dishwashers and cleaners can be on a daily wage. Add the rest of your team the same way, or upload them all from an Excel or CSV file.
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Go to Shift and Rotation and click Create Shift. Give it a name, a start and end time, the break, and how many hours make a full day. Many restaurants run one long shift, for example 11 am to 11 pm with a two-hour break. Add one shift for each timing you run.
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Staff check in from the BizlumoAI app on their own phone or on a shared phone at the kitchen door. The Attendance page shows who came in and when. You can also type a day in by hand: open the person on the Employees page and click Record Punches.
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Go to Payroll, pick the month and click Generate All. Everyone’s pay is worked out from the days they worked, with each person’s service charge share added. Open any payslip to check it, then download them all, the bank file or the cash pay register.
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Go to Admin Users and click Add Admin. Type their name, a username, email and a first password, and pick a role. For example your restaurant manager. Each role sees only what it needs.
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Not part of the checklist, but most restaurant or cafés use this every month.
On the Payroll page, pick the month and click Share Tips / Service Charge. Type the month’s total, for example ₹36,000 of service charge. Share it by days worked or equally, for everyone or one department. Each person’s share is added to their payslip.
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