Industrial caterers run canteens inside factories, IT parks, hospitals and hostels, deploying cooks, helpers and servers across many client kitchens. Staff move between sites and shifts, and each canteen contract is billed on its own terms.
These are the roles this vertical staffs most, each on its own minimum-wage band. Open a role to see its wage across states.
Catering staff are covered by the state minimum-wage schedule for their category, plus PF, ESI and, on larger sites, the Contract Labour Act. Overtime for extended service hours must be paid at twice the ordinary rate, and canteen contracts inside factories bring the principal employer's compliance scrutiny.
ZeniaHR prices each role at its correct skill band, captures split-shift attendance and overtime, runs the statutory deductions, and produces per-canteen wage registers and invoices, so multi-site catering payroll closes on time. Onboarding, attendance, leave, employee self-service, ID cards and reports sit in one system, so your team stops stitching spreadsheets together.
Unlike a generic HRMS, ZeniaHR is built for one industry, yours. For a industrial catering services operation that means the workflows already understand a cook, helper, steward mix on different skill bands, per-client sites billed separately, and the minimum-wage revisions that hit every six months. You start free for your first 100 workers, then pay per worker as you grow, so the cost tracks your actual deployment rather than a fixed licence.
A cook is generally treated as semi-skilled, while kitchen helpers are unskilled. ZeniaHR maps each role to the right band automatically for the applicable state.
Yes. Overtime beyond normal hours is captured from attendance and paid at twice the ordinary rate, per the Minimum Wages and Factories Acts.
ZeniaHR checks every worker against the right state wage, runs PF, ESI, PT and LWF, and invoices each client separately. Free for your first 100 workers.
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