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PEO FOR RESTAURANTS · PAYROLL · HR · COMPLIANCE · BENEFITS

Your Restaurant Runs Better When HR Isn’t on the Menu.

Simplify payroll, workers' comp, benefits, compliance, and HR with one restaurant-focused PEO solution — so you can focus on your team and your guests.

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The relief list

These tasks off your plate.

Every task below is eating into time you should be spending on your business. Hand it to a pro — section by section — and get your focus back.

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01

Payroll processing

Run in minutes, not Sundays. Tips, splits, and taxes filed automatically.

02

Workers' comp coverage

Pay-as-you-go workers' compensation designed to reduce audit surprises.

03

Health benefits access

Enterprise-grade plans via pooled buying power your solo shop could never get alone.

04

HR compliance & documentation

I-9s, handbooks, terminations — handled and papered, so you're not guessing.

05

FICA tip credit optimization

Capture the credits most owners leave on the table every single year.

06

Hiring & onboarding

E-Verify and digital onboarding a new cook finishes on their phone before their first shift.

The money on the table

$1,700+

average annual FICA tip credit recovered per tipped employee

$17,000

for 10 employees 

That's real money back in your pocket.

¹ Provider-reported restaurant client data.
² FICA tip-credit estimates vary based on reported tips, wages and eligibility.

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The honest comparison

Going it alone vs. with a PEO

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Going it aloneWith a PEO
Benefits
✕Small-group rates, if any
✓Fortune-500-grade plans via pooling
Support
✕You + Google at 11pm
✓Dedicated HR rep by name
Compliance
✕You hope you're right
✓Handled and documented
Workers' comp
✕Standalone policy + audit risk
✓Bundled, pay-as-you-go
Hiring
✕Paper forms, slow start dates
✓E-Verify & digital onboarding in minutes
Time & attendance
✕Manual clock sheets + 6+ hrs/week
✓Digital time clock, synced with payroll

The receipts

Owners who got their Sundays back.

“

Joining a Master Medical Plan cut our benefits cost 18% and let me re-invest that money into the business. 

Marco Rivera, owner of Rivera's Taqueria, smiling in front of his taco truck
Marco Rivera
Owner, Rivera's Taqueria (3 locations)
“

Compliance used to keep me up at night. Now it's just handled.

Danielle Osei, GM of The Copper Skillet, laughing with arms crossed inside a lively New Orleans soul food restaurant
Danielle Osei
GM, The Copper Skillet
“

They caught $19,400 in FICA tip credits we'd been missing for years.

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Tommy Nguyen
Owner, Pho Saigon Kitchen

THE POTENTIAL IMPACT

How a PEO Streamlined Operations Across a 12-Location Restaurant Group

Case study · Quick-service group · Southeast US

$214KFICA tip credits recovered in year one
65%less time spent on HR admin monthly
22%drop in turnover-driven rehire cost

12 locations, 140 employees. Payroll ran across three disconnected tools, tip credits had never been filed, and onboarding ate a new hire's first week. One year in, it all runs through a single dashboard.

Example based on typical client outcomes. Individual results vary.

What we see most often

Where restaurant operators leave the most on the table

  • Tip credit gets under-claimed because tip data isn't tracked the way the IRS requires.
  • New hires lose their first shift or two waiting on paper onboarding.
  • Payroll misclassification is the #1 thing that trips up a workers' comp audit.
  • Small-group benefit plans usually cost more per employee than a pooled PEO plan.

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