Case Study: My Muscle Chef achieves 50% faster payroll processing and award-compliant, scalable payroll with KeyPay

My Muscle Chef - Customer Case Study

My Muscle Chef, a Sydney-based food manufacturer supplying high-protein meals since 2013, faced rapidly growing headcount and an increasingly slow, manual payroll process that struggled with Manufacturing Award interpretation and messy timesheet management. Having used Xero and Deputy initially, My Muscle Chef adopted KeyPay in May 2018 to gain reliable, scalable payroll, award interpretation, rostering and time-and-attendance capabilities.

KeyPay automated award interpretation and applied penalty rates directly from timesheets, streamlined approvals and reporting, and replaced manual calculations—reducing payroll time by at least 50% (from about 5 hours to ~2 hours for 600 employees). The KeyPay solution also improved timesheet reliability, enabled better location and payroll-tax reporting, and gave management clearer labour-efficiency insights.

My Muscle Chef

Sanak Ahmed

Finance Manager