Case Study: San Diego bakery IZOLA achieves faster onboarding and upskilled pastry staff with Rippling

IZOLA uses Rippling to teach employees how to make San Diego’s best pastries

IZOLA, a 50-person San Diego bakery that “hires for values, not resumes,” faced inefficient training (handwritten tests and long YouTube playlists), limited HR features in QuickBooks, cluttered personnel records, and error-prone manual tip entry. To overcome these challenges, IZOLA turned to Rippling and its HR platform — including Rippling’s Learning Management System (LMS), HCM, and Payroll — to centralize onboarding, training, documentation, and payroll.

Rippling’s LMS let IZOLA build short, testable courses (e.g., new monthly pastries), verify comprehension, and upskill staff, while Rippling’s HCM centralized personnel files and automated 30/60/90‑day check-ins and equipment tracking. Rippling Payroll simplified tipped-wage processing with CSV uploads, and Rippling’s onboarding automations helped IZOLA bring on 40 employees quickly — including 25 front-of-house hires with the same start date — resulting in faster onboarding, better documentation, and fewer payroll hassles.

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