Staff Management

7shifts is purpose-built for the restaurant industry, offering AI-powered scheduling that predicts staffing needs based on sales data. The platform includes tip management, labor forecasting, and team communication tools, with a generous free plan for small operations.

Homebase offers a generous free plan for restaurants with up to 20 employees, including basic scheduling, time tracking, and POS integration. Paid plans add advanced features like geofencing, shift swapping, and payroll management.

When I Work is designed for fast-paced restaurant teams needing real-time schedule updates and communication. With auto scheduling, schedule templates, labor forecasting, and mobile-first design, it enables flexible shift management and team messaging starting at just $2.50 per user per month per location.

Deputy is a user-friendly workforce management platform popular across the hospitality sector. It offers robust scheduling features, advanced time clock functionality, optimized schedule creation, employee availability tracking, shift swapping, and task management. Its simple interface and high flexibility make it ideal for restaurants of all sizes.

Planday is a cloud-based scheduling platform with a visually appealing interface designed for multi-location restaurants with shift-based teams. It optimizes workforce efficiency, manages multiple teams and shifts, and provides strong after-sales support, though at higher-end pricing compared to Deputy or other competitors.

HotSchedules (by Fourth, merged 2019) is a market-leading workforce management platform for large restaurant teams and chains. It provides comprehensive scheduling, labor management and forecasting, team communication hub, labor cost control, and POS integrations—ideal for enterprise-scale operations requiring scalable solutions.