The Profit Leak P&L lines
Labour & Payroll
Checked against rostering, overtime and how many hours were actually productive.
Where it shows up
Labour is usually the single largest cost on the P&L, and the total spend can look perfectly reasonable while still hiding a rota built around habit rather than actual covers, unplanned overtime that nobody signed off, or a shift pattern that leaves the floor overstaffed on quiet nights and stretched thin on busy ones.
Why Profit Leak checks it
Profit Leak checks payroll against rostering discipline, overtime patterns and how many of those paid hours were genuinely productive — not just whether the total sits within budget. A well-run rota and a badly-run one can cost exactly the same amount of money and produce very different results.
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