Case Study: The Blue Cat Café cuts scheduling time from hours to minutes and boosts payroll accuracy with Deputy

Deputy and The Blue Cat Cafe make the puurrfect pair

The Blue Cat Café is an Austin-based cat café and adoption center that combines food, coffee and retail with an on-site adoption program. Owner Rebecca Gray juggled sales, inventory, payroll and a 12-person staff while handling unpredictable customer and adoption demand, which made scheduling, communicating shifts and maintaining accurate timesheets time-consuming and error-prone.

By adopting Deputy (integrated with payroll partner Gusto), Rebecca now creates schedules from her phone using real-time availability, sends push notifications to staff, uses a kiosk with face detection for clock-ins, and enables shift offers/swaps with manager approval. Within days the café cut scheduling time from hours to minutes, improved visibility into labor and sales, eliminated timesheet errors, boosted revenue through more accurate payroll, and restored confidence that the right employees show up when needed.

Blue Cat Cafe

Rebecca Gray

Founder and Owner