About LabourEngine

LabourEngine is a purpose-built labour cost planning platform designed for managers and owners in the hospitality, retail, food service, and broader shift-based industries. Whether you run a single café or oversee a multi-site operation, LabourEngine gives you the tools to plan, track, and optimise your workforce spending with precision and confidence.

At its core, LabourEngine lets you define positions with fully loaded cost rates — including base wages, overtime multipliers, benefits, bonuses, and bank holiday entitlements. From there, you build weekly labour budgets by scheduling forecasted hours per position per day, and then track actual hours worked alongside real revenue figures as the week unfolds. The result is a clear, data-driven picture of your labour percentage, productivity, and profitability — week by week.

The platform also provides a Daily Labour Guide, Budget Analysis dashboards, and exportable reports in CSV and PDF formats, so your insights are always shareable with your wider management team.

LabourEngine is built and maintained by a small, focused team that works closely with operators in the hospitality and retail sectors. Our goal is simple: give frontline business managers the financial clarity they deserve, without the complexity of enterprise software. We believe that better labour cost visibility leads to better decisions — for businesses and for the people they employ.