Every time you hire a new server, most restaurant scheduling platforms add another charge to your monthly bill.

That’s how per-user pricing works — and it’s how almost every major scheduling platform is built. Most charge $2 to $4 per employee per month for the features restaurants actually need. The free tiers exist, but the features that actually run your kitchen — labor cost tracking, overtime alerts, real-time shift visibility — sit behind the per-seat paywall.

Do the math for a typical restaurant. Twenty-five employees at $2 a month is $50. At $4, it’s $100. Add a second location and you’re doubling that. Hire for a busy summer season and your software bill goes up before your revenue does. You’re being charged more for growing your team, which is exactly backwards.

And that’s before the platform complexity. Some of these tools come with AI demand forecasting, HR onboarding workflows, document management, payroll modules, Fair Workweek compliance engines — features built for enterprise franchise operations with dedicated HR departments. If all you need is to build next week’s schedule and make sure your team shows up, you’re paying for a lot of software you’ll never open.

We built Schedules Made Simple differently. The free plan is a real free plan — not a stripped-down demo. And if you want unlimited locations and workers, it’s a flat monthly rate of $7.95/mo. Totally unlimited workers. It doesn’t cost more because you hired a dishwasher.

No POS integration required. No HR module to configure before you can post a shift. No 30-day rollout plan. Add your team, build the schedule, publish it to their phones. That’s it.

➜ Unlimited workers and locations — the bill doesn’t grow every time your team does

➜ Labor costs in real time — visible as you build the schedule, not locked behind a tier

➜ Built for restaurants — not for construction crews, call centers, or enterprise franchise HR departments

Start free. Stay free or the price of a monthly bagel. Unlimited locations. Unlimited workers. No HR degree required.