Restaurants that use 7shifts team communication tools
reduce calls and texts by 70%
Team communication app
Your all-in-one team communication app
Connect with your team anytime
Send members of your team 1-on-1 messages or easily create group chats based on departments or roles on your schedule. Managers can group message departments or teams to let them know about changes to the schedule, or more.
Ensure your message is seen & heard
Send one-way broadcast announcements to your entire team with read receipts and reminders to ensure they’ve received the message.
Share important documents
Attach important documents – such as new menus or policies – in messages to make sure key information doesn’t fall through the cracks.
Connect with your team anytime
Send members of your team 1-on-1 messages or easily create group chats based on departments or roles on your schedule. Managers can group message departments or teams to let them know about changes to the schedule, or more.
Ensure your message is seen & heard
Send one-way broadcast announcements to your entire team with read receipts and reminders to ensure they’ve received the message.
Share important documents
Attach important documents – such as new menus or policies – in messages to make sure key information doesn’t fall through the cracks.
Restaurant request management
Empower staff to collaborate on their schedule
Streamline requests and availability
Give your team the tools to manage their own availability and requests for employee scheduling. Once approved by a manager the schedule is updated.
Make shift trades easier
Empower your team to trade shifts with one another or offer up their shifts to others, with or without manager approval.
Keep work communication secure
Ensure your team's privacy with a dedicated work communication app and platform that doesn’t require your team to give out their personal information or connect on other platforms.
Streamline requests and availability
Give your team the tools to manage their own availability and requests for employee scheduling. Once approved by a manager the schedule is updated.
Make shift trades easier
Empower your team to trade shifts with one another or offer up their shifts to others, with or without manager approval.
Keep work communication secure
Ensure your team's privacy with a dedicated work communication app and platform that doesn’t require your team to give out their personal information or connect on other platforms.
Restaurant notifications
Set your recurring team communications on autopilot
Reduce errors and no-shows
Your team gets automated reminders for upcomings shifts and tasks so you don’t have to spend time reminding them.
Break time!
With 7shifts integrated time & attendance you can provide your team with automated break alerts so they know when it’s time to take a breather.
Keep employee communication secure
Your staff are immediately notified of their shifts when the schedule is published or updated—making your staff more accountable for their shifts.
Reduce errors and no-shows
Your team gets automated reminders for upcomings shifts and tasks so you don’t have to spend time reminding them.
Break time!
With 7shifts integrated time & attendance you can provide your team with automated break alerts so they know when it’s time to take a breather.
Keep employee communication secure
Your staff are immediately notified of their shifts when the schedule is published or updated—making your staff more accountable for their shifts.
Restaurant Manager Log Book
Get your managers in the loop
Centralize and share shift notes
With customizable categories, your managers can keep a record of daily shift details – that are automatically shared with other managers – keeping them in-sync.
Support your team
Team shift feedback is added to Log Book entries so managers can keep a pulse on employee engagement and job satisfaction.
Keep a record of operations
You have your restaurant’s operational history at your fingertips with the cloud-based manager log book. You can search, sort, or review any entries on your mobile or desktop device.
Centralize and share shift notes
With customizable categories, your managers can keep a record of daily shift details – that are automatically shared with other managers – keeping them in-sync.
Support your team
Team shift feedback is added to Log Book entries so managers can keep a pulse on employee engagement and job satisfaction.
Keep a record of operations
You have your restaurant’s operational history at your fingertips with the cloud-based manager log book. You can search, sort, or review any entries on your mobile or desktop device.
Restaurant task management
Communicate what needs to get done and when
Improve team engagement & accountability
With built-in task management your team will know exactly what to do with custom task lists assigned for each shift with time-based reminders.
Give instruction where needed
Provide optional details and instructions for your team on how you would like a task to be completed to ensure it’s done the right way the first time.
Keep team communication secure
Managers can get real-time notifications whenever tasks are completed, who completed it, and which tasks are outstanding.
Improve team engagement & accountability
With built-in task management your team will know exactly what to do with custom task lists assigned for each shift with time-based reminders.
Give instruction where needed
Provide optional details and instructions for your team on how you would like a task to be completed to ensure it’s done the right way the first time.
Keep team communication secure
Managers can get real-time notifications whenever tasks are completed, who completed it, and which tasks are outstanding.
Employee attendance
Cover shifts on the fly
Empower staff to swap shifts
Take the work off your plate by having staff find their own shift replacements by offering up shifts in the Shift Pool. Any shift bids are sent to managers for approval and schedules will be automatically updated.
Find coverage easily
Stop stressing about last-minute scheduling with “Find Who’s Available”, a mobile-exclusive feature. You’ll be able to easily find employees to cover late, sick, or no-show shifts while avoiding labor violations, overtime, and scheduling conflicts.
Empower staff to swap shifts
Take the work off your plate by having staff find their own shift replacements by offering up shifts in the Shift Pool. Any shift bids are sent to managers for approval and schedules will be automatically updated.
Find coverage easily
Stop stressing about last-minute scheduling with “Find Who’s Available”, a mobile-exclusive feature. You’ll be able to easily find employees to cover late, sick, or no-show shifts while avoiding labor violations, overtime, and scheduling conflicts.
Real restaurants, real results
What restaurateurs like you are saying about 7shifts
"..since we’ve moved to 7shifts my email use has reduced so much and there are so many super valuable elements to the platform that are really functional for us. So, I know that I have a lot of requests and I appreciate the communication tools."
Nancy Harrison, Director of Retail, French Truck Coffee
Trusted by 700,000+ restaurant pros around the world
The world's best restaurants use 7shifts to simplify employee scheduling and team management.
Team communication apps to keep your whole restaurant in-sync
Team communication is key in your restaurant, especially as the industry faces a 73% turnover rate with poor communication being the number one reason staff quit. Implementing 7shifts’ staff communication tools and apps can help keep your team informed, build a strong work culture, and retain your employees long-term.
Keep manager-employee communication channels open with 7shifts’ direct and group messaging functionality built into the app. Employees can message their coworkers about upcoming shifts or connect after-hours to build camaraderie.
Managers can stay in-sync with the Manager Log Book. The whole management team will be in-sync across shifts, activities, and restaurant operations.
By removing the need for staff to provide their personal numbers and social media profiles, everyone’s privacy can be protected, and communication can be kept to the appropriate work-specific channels in 7shifts—the team communication app and platform built for restaurants.
Team communication is key in your restaurant, especially as the industry faces a 73% turnover rate with poor communication being the number one reason staff quit. Implementing 7shifts’ staff communication tools and apps can help keep your team informed, build a strong work culture, and retain your employees long-term.
Keep manager-employee communication channels open with 7shifts’ direct and group messaging functionality built into the app. Employees can message their coworkers about upcoming shifts or connect after-hours to build camaraderie.
Managers can stay in-sync with the Manager Log Book. The whole management team will be in-sync across shifts, activities, and restaurant operations.
By removing the need for staff to provide their personal numbers and social media profiles, everyone’s privacy can be protected, and communication can be kept to the appropriate work-specific channels in 7shifts—the team communication app and platform built for restaurants.
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