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Simple shift scheduling for restaurants
Kitchen and front-of-house, lunch and dinner, part-time and full-time — restaurant schedules have more moving parts than almost any other shift-based business. ScheduleSpark gives you one weekly calendar to build the whole schedule and get it in front of your team.
Restaurant scheduling problems ScheduleSpark solves
- Kitchen and front-of-house coverage. Tag each worker by role and see both sides of the house on one calendar, so you can spot a gap on the line or at the host stand before the shift starts.
- Lunch and dinner shifts. Build separate shifts for the same worker across a split day instead of forcing one long block that doesn't match how the floor actually runs.
- Weekend scheduling. Weekly recurring shift templates mean you don't have to rebuild your busiest days — Friday and Saturday dinner — from scratch every week.
- Part-time employees and split shifts. Assign as many or as few shifts as a worker's availability allows, without any per-worker pricing penalty.
- Employee availability. See each worker's stated availability while you're building the schedule, instead of finding out about a conflict after you've published it.
- Late closing shifts and last-minute replacements. When someone calls out, reassign their shift and the new worker is notified immediately — no group chat scramble.
- Shift acknowledgements and fewer no-shows. Workers acknowledge each shift with one tap, so you know who has actually seen tonight's schedule and who hasn't.
How ScheduleSpark helps
Build the week on a Teams-style weekly calendar, check employee availability before you assign anyone, and let shift notifications handle telling the team. When plans change, shift change management keeps everyone on the same current version of the schedule.
Publishing your restaurant schedule in three steps
- Add your kitchen and front-of-house workers, tagged by role.
- Build the week on the calendar, checking availability as you assign each shift.
- Publish — every worker is emailed their own shifts and can acknowledge them with one tap.
FAQ
Can ScheduleSpark handle both kitchen and front-of-house staff?
Yes. Every worker is tagged with a role (line cook, server, host, bartender, dishwasher, and so on), and the weekly calendar shows kitchen and front-of-house shifts side by side so you can see total coverage for any shift at a glance.
Can I schedule split shifts for lunch and dinner separately?
Yes — you can create separate shifts for the same worker on the same day, so a server can be scheduled for the lunch rush and the dinner rush without one long block covering the slow afternoon in between.
How do workers find out about a last-minute schedule change?
The moment you update a shift, ScheduleSpark emails the affected worker with the new details, and they can acknowledge it with one tap from a mobile-friendly page — no app to install.
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