Save your restaurant
time & money
An improvement on a familiar look
You'll recognize our schedule layout whether you've used Excel or pen and paper. We've taken it a step further with our intuitive drag and drop schedule and auto-scheduling feature.
Build schedules in one click
Using auto-scheduling and custom shift templates, our system builds a schedule based on staff availability and weekly shift requirements.
Take control
of your labor costs
Set and view labor costs by department
Our budgeting tool allows you to see how much you're spending on your staff on a daily and weekly basis in real time. Instantly determine how much money this can save your business with our labor cost savings calculator.
Instant alerts around overtime
Get notified if you are about to schedule an employee into overtime.
Be in compliance with
labor standards
7shifts can help you stay in compliance with your local labor laws without having to sacrifice staff, customers, food quality, your bottom line, or your sanity.
Combining hours that staff have already worked with what they’re still scheduled for, we’re able to notify you in real-time if staff are scheduled to go into overtime.
We'll help ensure all staff members take their minimum scheduled break at the necessary times to avoid paying penalties.
Track your
performance
Restaurant dashboard
Get a quick look at the most important things in your restaurant – your sales and labor costs – so you can make better scheduling decisions.
Integrate your POS data
Integrate your sales data from some of the top restaurant POS systems in the industry. 7shifts will forecast your sales automatically.
View all our integrations
Keep everyone in
the loop
Instant notifications
Your staff are immediately notified of their shifts when the schedule is published or when changes are made to their shifts.
Approve or decline staff requests on the fly
Using our free mobile apps, get notified to approve or decline requests for time off, availability and shift trades.
What restaurateurs are saying about 7shifts
"7shifts helps streamline scheduling across all of our locations and provides our staff with an easy way to communicate with each other. We love that it integrates with our TouchBistro POS."
Bryan Osowiec, Dineen Coffee
"The biggest benefit to being a 7shifts client is definitely efficiency and simplicity. 7shifts has a simple vibe and easy functionality. People catch on quickly."
Konrad Droeske, General Manager
"We're a busy, multi-unit tequila bar in Toronto. 7shifts has helped me save money on labor and made scheduling across locations easier than ever—never going back!"
Matthew King, General Manager
Trusted by 250,000+ restaurant pros around the world
The world's best restaurants use 7shifts to save time and reduce costs
Why 7shifts is your ultimate restaurant employee scheduling software
7shifts makes creating simple and reliable restaurant employee schedules a breeze. Whether you’re a mom-and-pop shop, a full-service restaurant, or a national burger chain, our employee scheduling solution makes it easy to build and manage your employee schedule to better meet your labor targets.
Cloud-based restaurant scheduling software is a critical piece of the modern restaurant technology stack and trustworthy solution to simplified labor management. Put your pen and paper scheduling habits in the past with 7shifts’ robust restaurant scheduling app, time-clocking tool, advanced reports, and more.
With 7shifts employee scheduling software, your managers will spend 80% less time figuring out how to schedule employees in the restaurant, 70% less time dealing with calls and texts, and more time serving your restaurant guests.
Take your restaurant “to go” with our free restaurant scheduling app
Managers and employees can take their scheduling and team communication into their own hands with free mobile apps.
Use the manager mobile app to improve your restaurant manager’s productivity and empower employees with shift swapping, availability management, and time-off requests – all from their smartphones.
Empower your employees with schedule availability collaboration and team communication with the free employee mobile app, and keep employees in-the-loop with their upcoming schedules.
Why restaurant employees love 7shifts
Restaurant employees are delivered a beautiful and seamless experience in the 7shifts employee app, where they can chat with their team, submit availability, and view upcoming shifts. Maintaining schedule flexibility with availability and time-off requests has never been easier, and team bonding is made simple with our in-app direct messaging functionality.
When it comes to managing their schedules, employees have more collaborative opportunities with Shift Pool, where they can offer up or bid on open shifts to swap amongst themselves with manager approval. Employees are held accountable to their schedules and your managers can worry less about no-shows and last-minute call-ins.
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