Case Study: Celeste Group achieves 48-hour restaurant openings and unified HR across venues with Paylocity

How Celeste Group Streamlines Restaurant Openings with Paylocity

The Celeste Group, a 300-employee Chicago hospitality company with six venues including a Michelin-starred restaurant, faced operational bottlenecks from fragmented HR and payroll systems—manual POS exports, inconsistent onboarding, excessive administrative work, and no clear labor-cost visibility. To solve this, Celeste Group engaged Paylocity to deploy its unified HR and payroll platform with implementation, service, and support teams.

Paylocity retooled Celeste Group’s HR infrastructure—helping configure cost centers, workflows, and organizational hierarchy, rolling out phased migrations and preparing API integrations. The results: a full restaurant launch and onboarding of 50 employees in just 48 hours, elimination of much administrative overhead, standardized training and mobile self-service onboarding, accurate labor-cost reporting, a single portal for paystubs/benefits/HR, and enhanced employee support via Paylocity’s AI Assistant.

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