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Help restaurant and franchise owners hire, pay, and retain your hourly team.

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Learn how to tackle the hardest aspects of paying restaurant workers from taxes and tip reporting to labor law compliance.
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Switch from clunky and outdated payroll software to Workstream’s all-in-one, mobile-first HR platform designed for restaurants.

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Workstream is built for franchise and business owners

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All-in-one HR & payroll

Stop piecing together software. Use one connected platform for hiring, onboarding, scheduling, and payroll.

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Mobile-first: Built for busy managers

Built for the frontline, not desk jobs. So managers can hire, schedule, onboard, and get paid from their phones easily.

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24/7 Support that understands restaurant urgency

Slow support can turn payroll issues into compliance risks. Workstream gives you 24/7 specialists who actually speak your restaurant reality.

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Custom Hiring Templates & QR Codes
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Easy to Use Mobile App
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Integration to 25,000+ Job Boards
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24/7 VoiceAI Hiring
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Self-serve set-up for onboarding processes
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Actionable insights on franchisee performance
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Full service payroll processing
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Automates calculations for tips, breaks, overtime, deductions, and remittances
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“Workstream is the best! The customer service is phenomenal, it’s very reasonably priced, some of the new products are so exciting, and I just see such a bright future for us with Workstream.”
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Franchise Owner of 41 Bojangles Locations

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“Workstream is the best! The customer service is phenomenal, it’s very reasonably priced, some of the new products are so exciting, and I just see such a bright future for us with Workstream.”
Rajiv Dinakaran
Franchise Owner of 41 Bojangles Locations