The Pre-Shift Podcast
The #1 podcast for restaurant growth
When it comes to keeping employees happy and retaining them for a long time — is there anything more important than a healthy paycheck?


Meet the host
I'm D.J.
7shifts resident Content Writer and the host of The Restaurant Growth Podcast. I come from a family of culinarians and I’ve spent my career immersed in the food and restaurant industry, first as an employee and then as a writer. I helped to launch the Restaurant Growth Podcast in 2021 to provide restaurant owners, managers, and workers with an easy-to-digest way to listen to advice from our industry’s best minds, Send me a note and let me know what you think of the show, and who you’d love to hear from.
Listeners love the Pre-Shift

“[7shifts is] user-friendly, and makes messaging and communicating easy. The small quality of life things they’ve done for the staff (scheduled hours, expected income, etc.) are nice touches that you don’t realize how much the staff appreciate.”
April Mankiewicz
Owner, Sweet Basil Cafe
