Labor Types

Overview:

Many customers want to evaluate a recipe item's cost or their total cost of sales based on what is commonly referred to as "Prime Costs". Prime Costs add the cost of labor to your food and beverage costs to get a more comprehensive view of the overall cost of sales, or what an individual recipe item is costing you.

In COGS-Well, you have the option to include labor costs in some, none, or all of your recipe items.  Labor Types enables you to configure the labor job types (Prep Staff, Line Cook, etc.) and pay rates that you would like to use in Recipe Items. 

Things to know!

• The feature for Labor Types will only display if Labor Costs are enabled in your Company Settings. 
• The use of labor costs and labor types is optional. 
• Labor costs can be added to any Recipe Item, but are not required. 
• Labor Costs can be included in the reports that utilize the theoretical cost of sales (Theorectical Cost of Sales, Theoretical Profit from Sales, etc.). 
• This article on including Labor Costs in Recipe Items provides more information about setting up and using Labor Costs. 

Labor Types:

Labor Types enable you to configure one or more types of labor costs to add to a recipe item based on the job description and pay rate. For example, you may have a butcher job type for meat and fish cutting that has a different hourly rate than a kitchen prep person.

To add, review, edit, or delete a Labor Type, use the Sidebar to navigate to the Manage Recipes & Sales menu option and then select this feature. Any types already set up will display on a "Find Grid" as shown below:

Find Grid Definitions:

+ Add, Export, and Search Options:

• The blue "+ Add" button is used to add a new transaction.
• The "XLSX" button will export the information on the grid to a spreadsheet.
• The search option can find any part of a word or date on the grid. When you start typing your search criteria, the search will be initiated.  

Edit/Delete: Click the Edit or Delete button to the right on the row of the Item that you wish to edit or Delete.

Add/Edit Labor Type:

In the below example, we have clicked on the edit button for Butcher:

General Column: The General column on the above display is for the labor type name and hourly rate. Enter the Labor Type Name and the Initial Hourly Rate.  

Additional Rates Column: The Additional Rates column is only used when you change an hourly rate in the future (an example is the hourly rate increases from $22 to $23.

If you enter the new hourly rate and the date it went into effect, then the recipe item cost reporting for a date range that includes dates before and after the rate change will reflect the labor cost in effect for each day. This concept is similar to the concept used for Recipe Item Versioning. 

Save, Delete, and Exit

At the bottom of the screen are the Save, Delete, and Exit buttons.

Save - Saves the entry or entries without exiting.

Delete - Deletes the Group. You will be asked, "Are you sure"?

Exit -  Exits without saving any new entries or edits.