7shifts Blog

10 Essentials of Opening a Coffee Shop

Your dream of opening a coffee shop doesn’t have to feel like a daunting task if you focus on these 10 essential elements.

Operations

Restaurant Accounting And Bookkeeping: Start Here

Restaurant accounting can be overwhelming and tedious. In this guide, find the key accounting metrics and essential bookkeeping reports a manager needs to know to communicate with an accountant on your restaurant’s financial health.

Staff

Essential Communication Techniques For Restaurant Management And Staff

When restaurant staff work well together they provide a better customer experience, which is better for your bottom line. Read on for restaurant communication techniques that will help you connect with and engage your staff.

Marketing

5 Successful Restaurant Concepts to Magnetize Hungry Patrons

Struggling to choose a restaurant concept for your next expansion, refresh, or new venture? These five successful restaurant concept breakdowns will help simplify your decision making process.

Staff

Nurture Great Customer Service in Your Restaurant With These Tech Tools

Knowing how to provide and encourage good customer service is essential in a restaurant. Read on to see how you can use the tech to help your staff create an unforgettable customer experience.

Staff

25 Restaurant Employee Engagement Activities & Ideas

Boost employment engagement in your restaurant with one of these 25 activities and you’ll see improved employee performance, reduced staff turnover, and increased sales.

Operations

Everything You Need to Know About Virtual Restaurants

Knowing how to provide and encourage great customer service is essential in a restaurant. Read on to see how you can use these tech tools to help your staff create an unforgettable customer experience.

Integrations

7shifts + Lightspeed: Reduce labor cost by increasing efficiency

7shifts announces its integration with Lightspeed POS to help restaurateurs schedule more efficiently and reduce labor costs by unlocking the power of their real-time sales & labor data.

Staff

Restauranteur's Guide to New York State (NYS) Overtime Laws

If you’re not aware of New York’s unique labor laws, you may already be in violation. Here’s what you need to know about labor compliance in the Big Apple.

Insights

The Future of Technology In Restaurants: Are Your Servers Ready?

Data from a new survey of over 1000 American diners shows that having (and using) technology in restaurants requires a balanced approach–and is more critical than ever to get right.

Clients

Smoothie King – Smoothies (and scheduling!) with a purpose

Smoothie King was using a POS scheduler that wasn’t cutting it, and needed a better way to organize. Implementing 7shifts gave Smoothie King a quicker easier way to schedule & communicate while reducing labor.

Operations

Marijuana Legalization in Canada: Pros and Cons for Your Business

Canada makes history by becoming the first industrialized nation to legalize recreational cannabis. Here are the pros and cons of how that could affect your business, workforce, and customer service.

Marketing

How Restaurants Can Increase Sales in the Winter

There are plenty of ways restaurants can keep guests coming in during the winter months. From tailoring menu offerings to the season to participating in winter events in the community, here are some fun and effective ways to increase your restaurant's sales.

Clients

Cain Holding Group – A franchise group built on core principles

Learn how The Cain Holding Group uses 7shifts to power workforce management and forecasting for their entire franchise group.

Staff

How to make 24/7 shift schedule patterns work (with 5 examples)

Scheduling shifts at any restaurant is time-consuming enough. But when a restaurant is open 24 hours 7 days a week, scheduling can seem like an overwhelming task. Here’s how to choose and implement a 24/7 shift scheduling pattern that balances the needs of your staff with those of the operation.

Integrations

7shifts Partners with Piik to Offer Restaurants Unparalleled Insights for Business Decision-Making

Our new partnership with Piik takes restaurant operations management to the next level by seamlessly connecting disparate systems.

Operations

Restaurant Survey: Are you serving a meal or an experience?

According to the results of a new survey of 1,108 restaurant diners across the United States, it is the dining experience–not just the meal–thast makes a lasting impression.

Operations

Improving Your Restaurant Customer Experience Before & After the Meal

Learn how you can improve your restaurant customer experience through online efforts including reputation management and online information management.

Product News

Give a Shift - Employee Feedback

Shift Feedback, creates a space for employees to have a voice. It helps restaurant managers get valuable insights and candid feedback in real-time providing a unique window into the health of their operations.

Integrations

7shifts Integrates with Koomi to Help Restaurants Reduce Labor Costs

7shifts announces its integration with Koomi to empower restaurants with sales performance insights to make efficient, profitable labor decisions.

Staff

How to Make An Employee Time Off Request Policy In 5 Steps

Improve and streamline your operation’s employee time off request policy and reign in one of your most time-consuming and frustrating tasks as a restaurant manager. Includes free downloadable form template.

Staff

Savvy restaurateurs adopt tech to master fair workweek laws

New city- and state-level fair workweek laws are redistributing the stress and difficulty in the jobs (and lives) of restaurant employees, and moving it to the jobs (and lives) of restaurant owners and managers.

Marketing

Why Your Online Restaurant Menu is a Powerful Marketing Tool

Restaurant owners are always looking for ways to get more business, earn a higher profit, and attract new customers. Learn how to take your restaurant menu online and use it as an effective marketing tool.

Integrations

Rezku POS Proudly Announces Integration With 7shifts Scheduling Platform

7shifts is a best-in-class restaurant staff scheduling platform, now fully integrated with Rezku POS, an innovative iPad point of sale system designed for restaurants. Rezku CEO Paul Katsch details what 7shifts integration means for Rezku POS customers present and future.

Operations

5 Restaurant Management Tips To Improve The Way You Work

There’ a fine line between a good and a great restaurant manager. Read on for five essential soft- and hard-skills you need to master to become a great–and stress free–restaurant manager.

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