Schedule Smarter. Control Labour Costs.

D-Labour turns your sales data into the perfect schedule — and gives every manager live visibility on labour cost, attendance and performance.

Why labour management matters

Labour is your single biggest controllable cost.

Most restaurants schedule on gut feel and discover the damage at month-end. D-Labour replaces guesswork with data.

Traditional scheduling

Built on a spreadsheet from last week's rota
Labour % discovered 30 days later
Over-staffed quiet days, under-staffed peaks
Shift swaps lost in WhatsApp
No view of attendance or overtime
Payroll re-keyed by hand

Data-driven with D-Labour

Schedule built from real sales forecasts
Live labour % as you drag shifts
Right staff, right station, right hour
Swaps approved in-app and audited
Live attendance, overtime alerts
One-click payroll export

The platform

Everything managers need to run great shifts.

Smart Scheduling

Build optimised rotas in minutes using sales forecasts, demand patterns and staff availability.

Labour Cost Tracking

See labour % in real time as you build the schedule. Stop discovering overruns at month-end.

Shift Management

Drag-and-drop shifts, instant swaps, cover requests and live changes synced to every device.

Team Communication

Announcements, shift confirmations and updates — directly to your team's phones.

Attendance Tracking

Clock-in via POS, mobile or biometric. Catch early starts and unauthorised overtime instantly.

Performance Insights

Sales per labour hour, attendance scores and shift performance for every team member.

The workflow

From forecast to payroll, in one flow.

From order entry to ready-on-the-pass — fully traced.

Sales Forecast

AI projects covers and revenue by 15-min interval.

Smart Schedule

Auto-build a labour-optimised rota in minutes.

Live Shift

Clock-ins, swaps and alerts in real time.

Analytics

Performance, cost and payroll, fully reconciled.

Multi-location

Every site. One view.

Compare labour %, sales per labour hour and attendance across every site. Spot the outlier in seconds — move best practice everywhere.

The DASA ecosystem

D-Labour, connected to everything.

D-Labour

Workforce hub

D-POS Payments Analytics Reporting Mobile App Payroll Export Kitchen Display Reservations

Analytics

The numbers that drive profit.

Labour %

−2.1 pts vs last week

0 %

Labour Cost

−£1,240 wk vs last week

£ 0

Sales per Labour Hour

+11% vs last week

£ 0

Attendance

+1.4 pts vs last week

0 %

Overtime

−0.9 pts vs last week

0 %

Scheduled Hours

−18 hrs vs last week

0 hrs

The difference

Spreadsheets vs D-Labour.

Metric	Spreadsheet	D-Labour
Schedule build time	4–6 hrs / week	Under 30 minutes
Labour cost visibility	Month-end only	Live, as you schedule
Forecast-driven	Gut feel	Sales forecast + AI
Shift changes	WhatsApp chaos	In-app, audited
Attendance	Paper / manual	POS + biometric
Payroll export	Re-keyed manually	One-click export
Multi-location	Spreadsheet per site	Unified dashboard

Industry use cases

Built for every hospitality model.

Full-Service Restaurants

Match FOH and BOH to covers. Protect service standards without over-staffing.

QSR & Fast Casual

15-minute interval forecasting for peak rushes. Right people, right station, right time.

Cafés & Bakeries

Schedule around morning rushes and prep windows. Cut early-shift overtime.

Multi-Site Groups

Compare labour % across every site. Move best practice from your top site to the rest.

Hotels & Hospitality

Department-level scheduling for kitchen, bar, events and front desk in one view.

Enterprise Operators

Role-based permissions, approval workflows and consolidated payroll across brands.

“Labour is the single biggest lever in hospitality. The operators who win this decade aren’t the ones cutting heads — they’re the ones scheduling smarter. That’s what D-Labour was built for.”

Elliot Steele

Founder & CEO, DASA TECH

Run every shift with confidence.

See D-Labour in action — and find out what 2 points off your labour % is worth to your business.