Case Study: 3 Girls Catering achieves fast, accurate payroll and streamlined staffing with QuickBooks

Caterer shares preferred tools for event staffing and accurate payroll

3 Girls Catering, run by sisters Gretchen and Lisa for over 13 years, grew quickly after landing a stack of bookings early on—but growth brought administrative pain points. Juggling invoices, time tracking, crew scheduling and manual payroll from notebooks and spreadsheets was time-consuming and error-prone, limiting the owners’ ability to focus on baking, events, and business development.

They implemented QuickBooks Payroll and QuickBooks Time to centralize invoicing, hours, scheduling and payroll. Employees use the mobile app to clock in, view shifts and leverage GPS/geofencing while the office manager runs payroll in about 20 minutes a week. The result: faster, more accurate payroll and staffing, less time chasing details, and freed-up hours the team redeploys into booking events and growing revenue.

3 Girls Catering

Gretchen Talbert

Owner