Restaurant Employee Scheduling & Management Benefits

The restaurant shift scheduling app built for modern teams.

Simplify staff planning, management, and communication with our intuitive platform designed to bring your entire team onto the same page. From shift planning to real-time updates, we make it easy to coordinate tasks, reduce confusion, and ensure everyone stays aligned.

Empower your team with clarity, consistency, and a seamless experience that enhances productivity and workplace harmony.

The Restaurant Shift Scheduling App Built for Modern Teams

Simplify Staff Management

Put away the pencils and spreadsheets, and take back the hours you used to spend building schedules by hand. Whether you’re running a full-service kitchen or a single coffee shop counter, this restaurant shift scheduling app gets your team a published schedule in minutes, not hours.

Build or adjust a schedule from your phone, from anywhere, so a last-minute call-out doesn’t mean rushing back to a computer. When you’re at a desk, the same drag-and-drop scheduler stays in sync with the mobile app automatically, so nothing gets missed, double-booked, or lost between devices.

Simple Restaurant Staff Management
  • user-octagon Team members self-manage time-off and preference requests, no chasing down a manager
  • dollar-square Cut labor costs by spotting overstaffed shifts before they happen
  • calendar-edit Reduce scheduling errors with an app your team learns in minutes
  • Frame-1618868351-25x25 Team members see shift assignments the moment they're published, right on their phone
  • notification-status Manage schedules from anywhere, so you're never stuck at a computer
  • notification Fewer no-shows and late arrivals, thanks to automated shift reminders
  • Find a replacement fast when someone can't make their shift, no group texts required
  • profile-2user Support your whole team in English or Spanish, right out of the bo

Maximize Profits By Controlling Labor Costs

Labor is restaurants’ single largest operating expense, running well above 30% of sales industry-wide. Add one extra server to a slow Tuesday shift and you might not notice until payroll. With real-time labor cost tracking built into every schedule, you see the number before you publish it, not after.

Every overstaffed shift this restaurant shift scheduling app catches early is money back in the business, and it doesn’t take an accountant to see it. The cost estimate updates as you build the schedule, right alongside the shifts you’re assigning, so the moment gets caught before the shift ever happens.

It’s 100% free for smaller restaurants, with mobile scheduling, time-off requests, shift notifications, and team messaging included from day one. As your team grows, you can see exactly what’s included at every size on our pricing page. Your first schedule can be built and published in minutes.

Save Money Without an Enterprise Suite

Save money without buying into an expensive POS suite. Sling, for example, is now owned by Toast, one of the biggest point-of-sale companies in the industry, and its real scheduling features, labor cost tracking, overtime alerts, PTO management, sit behind a per-employee bill on top of that.

Schedules Made Simple is a restaurant shift scheduling app built specifically for smaller, independent restaurants that need those same real scheduling tools without the enterprise price tag. No POS contract required. No per-employee bill that grows every time you hire. Just an affordable app built to fit your restaurant, not the other way around.

Coordinate Your Team

Assign tasks alongside shifts, from sanitation checklists to opening and closing routines, and set how often each one needs to happen. Team members see only what’s assigned to them, and a single tap on their phone marks it done, so you always know what’s been completed and what’s still outstanding. See how task management works.

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Enable Just the Features You Want

Enable or disable any of the time features along with setting the advance time that requests can be made.

Enable just the features you want in this restaurant shift scheduling app
2

Schedule Multiple Locations

Assign team members to one, or many, locations and then assign them to schedules for those locations.

Schedule Multiple Locations in Schedules Made Simple
3

Create, Post or Share Printable Schedules

All schedules can be saved as a PDF to be printed or emailed. Both calendar and daily roster views are available.

Create, Post or Share Printable Schedules in Schedules Made Simple
4

Avoid Coverage Gaps

Clean graphical schedule views, designed for mobile devices, allow for easy identification of gaps in shift coverage that could lead to poor customer satisfaction.

Avoid Coverage Gaps in Schedules Made Simple
5

Easily Schedule for Next Period

With a single click, the next schedule can be automatically created by duplicating the current schedule. Any required changes can be easily made.

Easily Schedule for Next Period in Schedules Made Simple
6

Reduce Schedule Creation Time

Use the schedule copy feature to use an existing team member’s schedule as a template to create a schedule for a new worker.

Reduce Schedule Creation Time in Schedules Made Simple
7

Know Who is Working

See single view showing who is active and planned to work the current day. In the event of a no-show, one button press will record the event and start the process of finding a replacement.

Know Who is Working in Schedules Made Simple
8

Improve Communication With Your Team

Easily select team members to deliver timely messages about schedules, special events or any other topics that workers should be aware of.

Improve Communication With Your Team in Schedules Made Simple
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Reduce Your Workload

Let your employees to assist in changes. If enabled by management, team members can offer their shift to be picked up by other workers. Shift change requests are then easily reviewed and approved by managers.

Reduce Your Workload in Schedules Made Simple
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Reduce Language Challenges

To accommodate spanish speaking team members, all screens are fully spanish. Other languages can be available on request.

Reduce Language Challenges in Schedules Made Simple
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Improved Break Management

Always know who is on break. Team members easily see time remaining for their meal and rest breaks. At a glance, managers see who all is on break and when the breaks will be completed.

Improved Break Management in Schedules Made Simple
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Better Employee Morale

Preferred day requests, submitted and approved by managers, greatly aid in creating schedules that makes team members feel appreciated.

Better Employee Morale in Schedules Made Simple
13

Streamline Time-off Requests

Full and partial unavailable time request can be easily submitted for review by team managers. All time requests can be enabled or disabled by management along with setting rules when requests can be made.

Streamline Time-off Requests in Schedules Made Simple
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Improve Timely Attendance

Shift reminders help ensure that everyone is aware when they are scheduled to work. Reminder times can be customized to be delivered at the best times.

Improve Timely Attendance in Schedules Made Simple
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Reduce Schedule Surprises

Team members are always aware of their schedule and are notified when new schedules are published or changed.

Reduce Schedule Surprises in Schedules Made Simple

Download the App for Free and Discover How Effortless Team Management Can Be

Using your phone, see who is working at anytime, anywhere.