Make payroll staff’s life easier with or time and attendance system

Pizza Punks, a pizza restaurant and bar, will open open its first English branch in Newcastle, creating 30 jobs.

The restaurant, which has outlets in Belfast and Glasgow, will operate from the former Café Rouge unit on Grey Street, following a £400,000 investment supported by NE1.

Pizza toppings offered include: Newcastle Brown Ale pulled beef and a full English breakfast, as well as vegan, gluten-free and Halal products.

Brad Stevens, owner and managing director of Pizza Punks, said: "Newcastle is a vibrant, bustling city and with the rate of new bars and restaurants opening in Newcastle outpacing London, it’s obvious that the food and drink sector in the city is booming.

"What people really want these days is quality, tasty food that is great value for money – exactly what we offer. It’s a proposition we believe will resonate with those living, working and visiting the city."

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Obviously, more pizza in Newcastle is an excellent turn of events. However, from a business point of view it brings up an opportunity to discuss time and attendance systems.

Most restaurants (and many retail shops in general) still rely on employees to fill in handwritten timesheets stating their hours worked. Not only does this run the risk of being inaccurate thanks to employees’ forgetfulness, or worse, malice, but it can be a massive drain on your office and payroll staff who have to approve and type up all the information.

A workforce management system from Time and Attendance North East would bring your attendance systems up to date and reduce workloads considerably.

For example, managers would no longer need to approve every single timesheet every single week or month, and accounts staff would no longer need to laboriously type up the timesheets to enter them into the payroll system. 

All the staff would need to do is clock in and out using one of our terminals, with either a smartcard or a biometric measurement (fingers or hands). This data is collected in our WinTA.NET software, and it can be exported straight to common payroll systems such as Sagepay. 

Hiring new staff can progress without any worries once you’ve removed the payroll pain!