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Workstream vs Heartland

30,000 restaurants choose Workstream over Heartland

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Built for hourly teams

Manage the realities of managing shift-based teams with software designed with your needs in mind.

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Cover your compliance blind spots

Keep hiring, onboarding, and employee records connected so you’re prepared for audits and labor compliance.

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Designed for multi-location & multi-EIN

Manage teams across locations and entities without breaking payroll, scheduling, or reporting.

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Heartland looks all-in-one.
Workstream is all-in-one.

You could continue piecing together various job boards, schedules, and tax tools, or you could use Workstream to manage your restaurant.

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Automated Text to Apply
Automated reminders to applicants
Custom Hiring Templates & QR Codes
Integration to 25,000+ Job Boards
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Self-serve set-up for onboarding processes
In-platform chat feature to employees
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Ease to upload documents
Worker sentiment surveys
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Actionable insights on franchisee performance
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Accommodates dynamic pay rates, multiple job roles & locations
Automates calculations for tips, breaks, overtime, deductions, and remittances
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Product comparison as of November 2025

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Trusted by 46 of the top 50 QSR brands

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What our customers are saying

“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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Rajiv Dinakaran

Franchise Owner of 41 Bojangles Locations

“It’s awesome to have hiring, onboarding, and payroll all with one provider because trust is the biggest thing. We know that we can rely on Workstream. If we have any issues, they’re there.”
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Paul Ott

15-location franchisee, Top 5 Pizza QSR chain

“Workstream is fast. It’s efficient. It’s slick. It’s just a really streamlined, easy process.”
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Debbie Merrill

Executive Vice President, 12+ Jimmy John’s locations

“You’re going to save a ton of money, streamline the entire process, your hiring manager’s going to love you. It’s just a no-brainer.”
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Ben Little

Owner of 14 Zaxby’s locations

“If we had known it was going to be as easy and user friendly and really help drive the applicant flow in our restaurants, yeah, we would’ve started with all our restaurants from the beginning.”
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Aaron Piper

Operating Partner, OM Group

Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information

Before we discuss the right to limit and the right to opt-out, we must first define personal information and how it relates to sensitive personal information.

Personal information is any data that identifies, relates to, or could reasonably be linked to you or your household. A few examples of personal information include:

  • Name or nickname
  • Email address
  • Purchase history
  • Browsing history
  • Location data
  • Employment data
  • IP address
  • Profiles businesses create about you, including pseudonymous profiles (“user1234”)
  • Sensitive personal information

Sensitive personal information or “SPI” is a subset of personal information, defined as:

  • Identifying information (e.g. social security number, driver’s license)
  • Financial data (e.g. debit or credit card numbers)
  • Precise geolocation (within a radius of 1,850 feet)
  • Demographic or protected-class information (e.g. race/ethnicity, religion, union membership)
  • Biometric and genetic data (e.g. fingerprints, palm scans, facial recognition)
  • Communications and content (e.g. mail, email, text messages)
  • Health and sexual orientation (e.g. vaccine records, health history)

Right to Opt-Out

Californians have the right to opt-out of the sale and sharing of their personal information. That means you have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information to third parties (e.g. data brokers, advertisers). You also have the right to opt-out of the sharing of your personal information to prevent the targeting of ads across different businesses, websites, apps, or services.

CCPA-covered businesses must provide a link to allow you to exercise this right. It is usually found at the bottom of a webpage and will say “do not sell or share my personal information” or “your privacy choices.” Sometimes businesses offer privacy choices through a pop-up window or form

To opt-out of the sale and sharing of your personal information, click on the link or use the toggle provided by the business and follow the directions. Doing this on every website you visit can feel burdensome, but to ease the burden you can automatically select your privacy preferences for every website by using an opt-out preference signal, or OOPS for short.

An OOPS is a user-friendly and straightforward way for consumers to automatically exercise their right to opt-out of the sale and sharing of their personal information with the businesses they interact with online. An OOPS, such as the Global Privacy Control. It can either be a setting on your internet browser or a browser extension. With an OOPS, consumers do not have to submit individual requests to opt-out of sale or sharing with each business.

Right to Limit

Californians also have the right to direct businesses to limit the use and disclosure of their sensitive personal information.

Businesses covered under the CCPA must provide a link on their website that allows you to request the limiting of your SPI, if they plan on using it in certain ways. That link will also typically be at the bottom of a webpage and will say: “limit the use of my sensitive personal information” or “your privacy choices.” Once you send this request, the business must stop using your SPI for anything other than to:

  • Provide requested goods or services
  • Ensure security and integrity
  • Prevent fraud
  • Maintain system functionality
  • Comply with legal obligations

Bringing it Together

In summary, the CCPA gives you the right to opt-out of the sale and sharing of your personal information and gives you additional rights to further limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information.

When you exercise these rights together, you exert greater control in protecting your personal data which is important for your identity, safety, and financial health.

If you are on a business’s website and you can’t find the links to exercise your rights, remember to check their privacy policy. The privacy policy should tell you how you can exercise your rights under the law.

If you find your rights being violated, you can submit a complaint to CalPrivacy.

Next in the LOCKED series, we will explore the right to correct and right to know. Follow us on social media to get live updates or check back in one week for the next post.

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Personalization

Allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For example, a website may provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing data about your general location.

Analytics

Help the website operator understand how its website performs, how visitors interact with the site, and whether there may be technical issues.

Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information

You also have the right to limit how we use sensitive personal information (such as precise geolocation, financial data, etc.).

Your preference has been saved. We will not sell or share your personal information.

Workstream is restaurant-grade payroll and HR. The modern, all-in-one platform delivers payroll, scheduling, hiring, onboarding, benefits, and compliance for multi-location restaurants. 46 of the top 50 restaurant brands use Workstream for effortless people operations.

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