07/14/2026
When food costs spike and margins shrink, the schedule is usually the first thing a restaurant owner touches.
Trim a few shifts here, cut someone’s hours there, and watch the labor percentage drop. Except it often doesn’t drop the way you expect.
At U-Nique Accounting, we see this pattern constantly with the operators we work with, and it’s worth breaking down why cutting hours can be a frustrating fix for a more structural problem 👉 https://u-niqueaccounting.com/why-cutting-staff-hours-doesnt-always-reduce-restaurant-labor-costs/