Castle's Family Restaurant Executive Summary

Castle’s Family Restaurant has over 300 employees at eight restaurants in the northern California area. Over half of these employees are part time, with only about 40% of them being full time. Mr. Jay Morgan is the operations manager, but has also been filling the role of the HR manager. This is time consuming for him as he travels to each location at least once a week. Beyond being time consuming, it is also very costly. Mr. Morgan has requested that a proposal be drawn up to help this company to streamline the HR processes without costing the company more time or money.
Mr. Morgan has brought to our attention that the company he works for, Castle’s Family Restaurant is in need of HR assistance. This restaurant chain like many others is employed primarily by part time employees. As the operations manager, Mr. Morgan is handling all scheduling, recruiting, hiring and employee questions on his own. He does this by traveling to each of the eight locations weekly. As the operations manager, it is Mr. Morgan’s responsibility to ensure that all locations are operational; as the situation is now, he spends more time doing HR functions. This process is very costly and ineffective for many reasons.
Morgan is handling all payroll with an Excel spreadsheet on his computer. This process severely needs to be revamped and either out-sourced or automated. By automating or out-sourcing the payroll process, employees would be able to receive their pay via direct deposit or a check mailed to their address on file. This would free up a considerable amount of Mr. Morgan’s time. With this type of HRIS employees could clock in and out, this would all download to a system that Mr. Morgan is able to see, but that he doesn’t have to calculate all employee’s pay. This would help take out some of the risk factor of human error when determining