Case Study: Golden Tree Restaurants achieves 6× faster, paperless payroll and $204K in savings with ADP Workforce Now (ADP)

Golden Tree’s recipe for HR and payroll success with ADP Workforce Now®

Golden Tree Restaurants, a Richardson, Texas–based group operating nine restaurant brands with roughly 1,000 employees nationwide, faced inefficient, paper-based HR and payroll processes. Manual data entry made payroll slow and error-prone, managers lacked control over local workflows, and employees had no mobile self-service to manage pay or HR information.

Working with ADP Workforce Now, Wisely by ADP and ADP SmartCompliance, payroll manager Hector Nevarez led a move to automated payroll, digital workflows and mobile self-service. The changes cut payroll processing from 24 hours to four, enabled previews that catch 95% of potential issues, eliminated paper checks (saving $204,000), ensured timely pay via Wisely cards, and improved compliance and manager/employee empowerment.