Case Study: Gusto 54 achieves streamlined people operations and scalable growth with Push Operations

How Gusto 54 Is Building a Culinary Empire

Gusto 54, a Toronto-born restaurant group now operating 14 locations across Toronto and Los Angeles, faced fragmented people operations: a legacy platform that left employees unable to find pay stubs, concerns about tax accuracy, scattered communications, manual time-tracking on clipboards, and limited scalability as they planned expansion. To address this, Gusto 54 selected Push Operations and adopted Push’s all-in-one people management platform.

Push Operations implemented a centralized system for payroll, scheduling, digital time tracking, communications, onboarding, POS integration, and compliance management. The switch eliminated manual tracking and frequent pay-stub complaints, gave managers real-time labor and cost data to control overtime and meal-break violations, streamlined hiring and onboarding, and ensured compliance with new California rules—freeing managers to spend more time on service and enabling measurable improvements in operational efficiency and cost control.

Gusto 54

Tyler Rutherford

Director of Business Operations and Expansion