Marty vs. Deputy: Workforce Management and Managed Profit Control
If Deputy already runs your schedules, ask whether the remaining gap is configuration, data quality or work that never gets followed through. A capable workforce platform and a managed profit-control routine can serve different needs.
Keep working scheduling, timekeeping and payroll processes in place.
Marty targets U.S. restaurant groups with 5–50 locations and $10M–$100M in revenue, led by an owner, COO, CFO, controller or operating partner who needs consistent follow-through across locations.
Deputy goes beyond publishing a schedule
Deputy's official multi-location page describes live labor-cost and break visibility, comparison with POS sales, cross-site staffing and budget controls. Its published product update also describes overtime warnings and a breakdown of shift costs. Availability depends on configuration, supported rates and rollout. It would be inaccurate to say Deputy stops working when the schedule is published. Deputy multi-location, Overtime warnings update.
Decide which problem you have
If managers are not seeing available warnings, review permissions and settings first. If punches are wrong, fix the timekeeping process. If sales and labor disagree, establish whether both reports use the same location, period and cost definition.
A broader review becomes useful when the question extends beyond producing a roster: why do costs keep missing plan, which records support the cause, and what should leadership address first?
Bring a specific issue to the comparison
For a hypothetical Location A, actual labor is above plan after a busy service. Start by separating additional hours, rate differences and changes in sales. A higher cost may have supported additional revenue or required coverage. It is not automatically waste.
Then identify the next decision: change a future schedule, correct a data mapping, investigate a recurring close task or leave a justified exception in place. That decision should retain the evidence and the person responsible.
| Requirement | What to evaluate |
|---|---|
| Scheduling and time tracking | Your Deputy configuration and operating workflow |
| Labor warnings and visibility | Available Deputy features before adding another tool |
| Cross-location diagnosis and prioritization | Scope of a Marty Cash Recovery Plan |
| Continuing alerts and follow-through | Optional Managed Profit Control after the baseline Review |
Confirm access before buying
Provide the systems and locations involved. Ask which records Marty needs, how they can be accessed and what history is available. Confirm the supported access method and refresh cadence for those records.
Keep the team’s working tools. Evaluate Marty when leadership needs a repeatable routine for finding issues, assigning actions and checking results across locations.
Work a Deputy labor exception end to end
Deputy documents POS-based labor comparison and configured overtime warnings in the sources above. A practical evaluation can use those existing tools:
| Stage | Deputy / restaurant team | Proposed managed work |
|---|---|---|
| Find | Manager reviews the configured labor/POS comparison and actual shift records | Establish whether hours, rates or sales explain the variance |
| Assign | Operator authorizes the future staffing or process decision | Name the owner and evidence needed |
| Follow up | Manager records the agreed change and service context | Chase the action and escalate a missed step |
| Verify | Payroll and POS records provide the later comparable period | Check the result and any changed demand or coverage |
If warnings are disabled or source mappings are wrong, configure Deputy first. If schedules and pay records are sound but nobody resolves recurring cross-location exceptions, assess managed help. The workflow does not establish a native Deputy-to-Marty connector; confirm permitted access, available history and cadence.
For the broader cost decision, review labor, coverage and profit together. The source-backed restaurant review examples show why time records and reporting completeness matter before assigning a fix.
Follow the labor decision beyond Deputy
Marty is a managed profit-control layer: Find → Assign → Follow up → Verify. The paid Cash Recovery Plan establishes what to watch first, with evidence, owners, actions and a 30-day plan. Delivery is seven business days after required access is complete; read-only access and the flat fee are confirmed first.
Optional Managed Profit Control continues the agreed checks, manager alerts, follow-up, escalation and verification. Start the Cash Recovery Plan.