The Marty Blog

Cash recovery insights for multi-unit restaurant operators.

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Comparison

Fourth Manages Your Workforce. Marty Recovers the Labor.

Fourth optimizes the workforce plan. Marty audits what that plan actually cost you.

March 2026
Comparison

Clover Runs Your POS. Marty Recovers Your Margin.

Clover reports what happened. Marty delivers the recovery actions with dollars attached.

March 2026
Comparison

Square Runs Your POS. Marty Recovers Your Margin.

Square processes transactions. Marty finds the dollars left on the table between them.

March 2026
Labor Cost

Why Is Restaurant Labor Cost So High? The Hidden Drivers Most Operators Miss

The biggest labor leaks aren't from wages — they're hiding in schedule execution and overtime drift.

March 2026
Labor Cost

How to Reduce Restaurant Labor Costs Without Cutting Staff

7 ways to reduce labor costs by fixing execution, not headcount.

March 2026
Labor Cost

The Restaurant Overtime Problem: Why It Creeps and How to Stop It

Overtime rarely comes from one bad decision — it comes from dozens of small ones that compound silently.

March 2026
Labor Cost

Restaurant Labor Percentage Benchmarks: What's Normal and What's Fixable

The only benchmark that matters is the gap between your best and worst location.

March 2026
Food Cost

Why Is Restaurant Food Cost So High? 5 Leaks You're Not Seeing

Ingredient prices get the blame, but the controllable leaks are where the real recovery lives.

March 2026
Food Cost

Restaurant Vendor Overbilling: How to Catch It Before It Compounds

3-7% of vendor invoices contain pricing discrepancies. At scale, that's tens of thousands per year.

March 2026
Food Cost

Restaurant Food Cost Variance: What's Normal and What's a Problem

The gap between theoretical and actual food cost is where the available dollars live.

March 2026
Operations

Restaurant Comp Fraud: Patterns, Detection, and Prevention

When comp patterns deviate from location norms, there's often fraud hiding in the numbers.

March 2026
Operations

Restaurant Cash Handling and Theft: What the POS Data Reveals

Internal theft costs restaurants 4-6% of revenue. The patterns are hiding in your POS data.

March 2026
Labor Cost

The Restaurant Overstaffing Problem: How to See It Before the P&L Closes

Overstaffing feels like good service. It shows up as thin margins.

March 2026
Operations

Why Your Restaurant Scheduling Software Isn't Reducing Labor Cost

The cost isn't in the schedule — it's in the execution gap between plan and reality.

March 2026
Operations

Why Restaurant Profit Margins Are So Low — and Where to Find Hidden Margin

Inside every multi-unit operation, there's 2-4 points of margin hiding in controllable cost leaks.

March 2026
Operations

The Restaurant Morning Report: What GMs Actually Need Before the Shift

Your GMs don't need a dashboard. They need 3-5 findings with dollar amounts and actions.

March 2026
Operations

Multi-Unit Restaurant Management: Why Visibility Breaks After 10 Locations

What works at 3 locations breaks at 15. Here's where visibility fails and how to restore it.

March 2026
Compliance

Restaurant DOL Audit Preparation: What to Have Ready Before They Call

DOL investigations result in back wages 84% of the time. Daily monitoring is the best preparation.

March 2026

ScheduleFly Alternative

When restaurant managers search for a ScheduleFly alternative, they're typica...

June 2026

ScheduleFly vs 7shifts

Restaurant scheduling software can make or break your operational efficiency,...

June 2026