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What is turnover costing your group?
Restaurant turnover averages 75% a year, and replacing one hourly employee runs $2,700–$5,900 once hiring and training are counted. Drag the sliders to your operation and see the yearly number — then see what keeping just five points more of your people is worth.
The defaults are published industry averages, not your numbers: 75% turnover and $2,706 per hourly departure, each sourced and linked in our cost breakdown. A manager runs about $11,940 and a GM $17,651. Drag every slider to your own reality — what comes out is an estimate built from what you put in, not a measurement of your business.
Where these numbers come from
The math is departures × cost per departure. Defaults use the ~75% industry turnover average and the $2,706 per-hourly-departure estimate from the 2026 State of Restaurants data; every input is adjustable because every group is different. Full sources and the deeper math live in The Real Cost of Stale Training.
One lever you control this quarter
You can't slider your way out of an industry-wide labor market — but training quality is yours. 62% of restaurant workers say a lack of training would push them out. PlateSpec keeps training current automatically: tell it what changed, and every location's lessons and quizzes update before pre-shift. See it on your menu →