The roster gets built from last week’s roster. That’s how most venues do it, and that’s why labour creeps up two points a year without anyone deciding it.

This sheet costs the roster before it goes out. Hours, rates, penalties, super at 12% — it gives you the labour percentage of your forecast sales while you can still change something.

Healthy is 28–35%. Over 40% and the roster is running the venue, not you. It also shows you which single shift has the worst sales-to-labour relationship — usually not the one you’d guess.

What you get

• The Labour Cost Control Sheet (Google Sheets, yours to copy)
• Roster costing with penalty loading and 12% super built in
• Labour % against forecast sales, per day and per week
• Shift-by-shift ranking so you know which one to fix first

Who it’s for — owners who are working the floor to cover labour and want to stop before the next roster goes out.

Who it’s not for — anyone wanting rostering software. This tells you what the roster costs. You still write it.