Schedule your restaurant in minutes

Restaurant staff scheduling software you and your team will love.

Manage schedules, tasks and time. One login, any device.

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Restaurant schedule in Schedules Made Simple on a laptop, tablet and iPhone

Made for the Heartbeat of Restaurant Life

You’re juggling a thousand things at once, and your team is the engine that keeps it all moving. That’s why we built an employee time management solution that moves with you. On mobile or at the computer, see who is working, who’s on breaks, review time requests, manage tasks, and much more.

Need to get going fast? Give us a few bits of information about the shifts to be assigned each day and we’ll do the rest.

TOTALLY RISK FREE. NO CREDIT CARD NEEDED. NO COMMITMENTS
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100% free restaurant staff scheduling software interface showing automated shifts.

Great Shifts Rely on a Supported Team

Smart scheduling that puts your people first balancing availability, coverage, and cost so your team stays happy and your floor runs smooth.

Great Shifts Rely on a Supported Team
Vin Diego Cook Breakfast Monday 5:00 AM 11:00 AM
John Server Breakfast Monday 5:00 AM 11:00 AM
Billy Cook Lunch Tuesday 11:00 AM 5:00 PM
Dirk Dishwasher Lunch Tuesday 11:00 AM 5:00 PM
Restaurant employee roster schedule balancing worker availability and shift coverage

Lower Stress and Reclaim Hours

With smart scheduling and intuitive tools, we calm the chaos. Your employees can trade shifts, review team schedules and communicate availability with no juggling required by you.

Lower Stress and Reclaim Hours
Mobile shift trading interface inside the Schedules Made Simple app

Be Treated Like Royalty

We go above and beyond for our customers, offering exceptional, US-based support that truly cares, You’ll always speak with someone knowledgeable who can quickly answer questions or solve issues efficiently.

Be Treated Like Royalty

Join our Family of Successful Businesses

Sayre Hospitality Group

Sayre Hospitality Group, is an Ohio-based culinary and hospitality company delivering exceptional guest experiences and operational excellence under numerous brands including Lem’s Pizza, The Golden Bear, Sam’s Pizza, The Chameleon Cafe and more exciting restaurant concepts to come.

“Our growing and diverse operations are demanding and require us to continually operate at peak efficiency. I have been pleased to work with Schedules Made Simple to help manage our staff scheduling and time management. They offer an exceptional level of support, responsiveness, and flexibility that is unmatched by their competitors.”

— David Drumm, Director of Restaurant Operations

Jeffrey's Family Restaurant

Jeffrey’s Family Restaurant, serving the community for nearly two decades, has been a staple on McClellan Avenue in Marquette, Michigan. Bringing warm hospitality and award-winning comfort food to the Upper Peninsula, Jeffrey’s has built a legacy on timeless favorites, celebrated year after year for serving the best breakfast in town.

“We use Schedules Made Simple to keep our front-of-house and kitchen shifts running smoothly. The mobile app makes it easy for our team to check their schedules and see who’s working. The support is fantastic, it’s very easy on our budget, and it saves me a lot of time managing the schedules.”

— Carissa Taylor, General Manager

In your restaurant, making a profit means every penny matters.

Labor is your restaurant’s largest controllable expense, yet most managers only calculate costs after payroll runs. By then your thin profit margins have already been eroded! That’s why we’ve introduced easy to use tools to make sure that your labor costs stay aligned with your sales.

Easy to use tools to make sure that your labor costs stay aligned with your sales.

Bring Clarity and Control to Your Daily Operations

You didn’t build your restaurant for spreadsheets, you built it for people. The hustle, the heat, the shared pride of a shift done right. That’s why our platform takes the pressure out of scheduling. We understand your team’s real-life needs. We give you the tools to quickly adjust for last minute no-shows. No missed shifts. No last-minute stress. Just a team that feels valued, guests who feel cared for, and more space for you to focus on what really matters.

Download Schedules Made Simple on the App Store
Get Schedules Made Simple on Google Play
iPhone schedule editor with the daily cost plan and a shift card
Say Goodbye to Learning Complicated Software

Say Goodbye to Learning Complicated Software

Create an excellent schedule in minutes using only your phone. Tell us your restaurant hours and who your employees are – we will take it from there.

Skeptical? Download the free app or login to the web, and give us 15 minutes to prove it.

Don’t Break the Bank

Looking for a high-value, low-cost alternative to expensive restaurant workforce management software and a vast improvement from manual scheduling with spreadsheets?

Our pricing is simple – 100% free or $7.95 month. Both plans give you the professional tools like auto-scheduling, schedule templates, time-off management, shift offers, shift reminders, task assignments and notifications at a fraction of the cost of our staff scheduling competitors.

We are totally risk-free with no credit card required. There are no upsells and no pressure; just a smooth and commitment-free experience.

Don’t Break the Bank! Our pricing is simple – 100% free or $7.95 month.

Everything Your Restaurant Needs, Right in Your Pocket

By embracing intelligent scheduling and time management tools, we’ve taken the chaos out of the day-to-day—creating a smoother, more connected environment. And when your team is in sync, you can pour energy into what really matters: giving your customers an unforgettable experience you came for.

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Built for Your Phone

Designed from the first sketch for the phone. Press and hold any shift, drop it on a new day, and watch hours and labor cost update as you go.

Dragging a shift to a new day in the iPhone schedule editor
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Web, Tablet and Phone Together

Build the week on the web or the tablet’s full week board, then fine-tune it from your phone during the rush. One login on every device.

The same restaurant schedule on the web, a tablet and an iPhone
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Customized shift notifications

Employees will receive reminders of upcoming shifts and new schedules with notification delivery times that they control.

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Hablamos español

The Schedules Made Simple mobile app fully supports both English and Spanish. If there is a language you want, please ask. We have more languages coming soon.

Native support for Spanish speakers
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Team Empowerment

Your staff see their week at a glance, request time off, offer shifts and tell you which days they’d like to work, right from their phone.

A worker's My Schedule screen with the week's shifts
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See who is working today

With a glance of your phone you will see who is scheduled for the day with the option to send them a notification.

Who's Working shows everyone on today by shift and role
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Printed and emailed schedules

Shared or print schedules that include both a calendar shift assignments along with daily “roster” views.

Email and print schedules to share or post
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Know Who Read Your Message

Message the whole team, a role or one person, then see exactly who read it and who replied. Workers without the app get it by email.

Message recipient status showing who read it and who replied
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Cover Call-offs in One Tap

Release the shift and offer it to everyone in that role. They request it from their phones and you approve with a tap.

Releasing a shift and offering it to workers for pickup
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Manage time off requests

Time off, preferred days and shift trades arrive in one list. Check the worker’s schedule, then approve or deny in seconds. Every decision is recorded.

Reviewing a time off request with Approve and Deny
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Know Your Labor Cost Before the Week Starts

Hours and dollars update with every change. A daily cost plan shows each day as a percent of plan, and overtime is flagged by name.

Daily cost plan and labor cost per day in the schedule editor
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Opening and Closing Checklists

Assign opening, prep and closing tasks by shift, role or person, and watch progress live.

Opening and closing task checklists with progress
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Catering and Off-Site Check-In

Workers check in from the job site, and you see when and where each one clocked in, right on the map.

A catering worker checked in at an off-site job
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Easy worker preferences

Requests for preferred work days and times can be submitted for you to review and approve. See a clear indicator of preferences when assigning shifts.

Each team member can request shift preferences
Efficiently assign shifts and track total hours with drag and drop capability using schedules made simple

Drag and Drop Shifts

Efficiently assign shifts and track total hours with drag and drop capability using schedules made simple.

Quickly edit all the days in a workers schedule

Quickly Edit All Days

In addition to drag and dropping, you can edit all the days in a workers schedule at once

Release a shift to be offered for pick up by another worker

Release Shifts

Release a shift to be offered for pick up by another worker

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Who's Working in the Schedules Made Simple app