"If I lost Ando, it would feel like losing my iPhone.

"If I lost Ando, it would feel like losing my iPhone. I wouldn't know how to operate without it." That's Natasha Dauzat, Head of Ops Salad Station, and she said it after four weeks.

Some tools save time but the best ones become part of how the business runs. That is what happened at Salad Station.

Across seven corporate locations, the team had been scheduling through Revel, with managers relying on their own judgment to balance demand, staffing levels, and the countless small decisions that go into building a schedule.

Ando was set up in four weeks. After the pilot, Salad Station moved scheduling from Revel to Ando across all seven corporate locations.

Results:

• 7 locations live on Ando

• 4-week setup

• 1,290 manager administrative hours returned annually across seven locations, based on approximately 3.5 hours per location per week no longer spent creating and managing schedules

• $170,000 in projected annual labor savings across seven locations from more accurately matching staffing to customer demand

• Full corporate rollout after the pilot

Tiffany Alford, GM of Salad Station Corporate Blvd, told us she’s “amazed about how much Ando takes into consideration. At my previous company, I used to have to do it all myself.”

That's the point. Ando translates demand into labor deployment across locations while taking the administrative burden of scheduling off managers' plates. The result is a better deployment of labor across the business and more time for managers to focus on customers, coaching their teams, and running their restaurants.