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Take control of your labor in 2021 with 7shiftsTake control of your labor in 2021 with 7shifts

The platform that will help you take the labor out of labor management.

April 16, 2021

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The restaurant industry is going through a rapid period of change. Dining capacities are shifting. Takeout and delivery are skyrocketing. Many are building out or exploring outdoor dining options. While it’s easy to feel like a lot is out of your control, one thing that you can always control is your labor. A well-managed team is essential to success, and 7shifts can help. 7shifts is a labor-management platform that provides managers with a suite of easy-to-use tools they can use to create and adjust staff schedules, communicate with their team, meet labor targets, and ensure processes are followed—saving your restaurant time and money.

7shifts was founded in 2014 by Jordan Boesch while working for his dad’s restaurant. He witnessed the pains of building schedules first-hand while watching his dad manage and schedule employees across multiple locations. It was at that point that he built a simple scheduling tool and became motivated to build 7shifts to help restaurants everywhere. Today, 7shifts has evolved into a fully-fledged labor management platform built exclusively for restaurants. We help over 15,000 restaurants and 500,000 employees worldwide make their work lives easier.

One of those restaurants, Main Squeeze Juice Co., has implemented 7shifts across their 18 locations. In transitioning from Excel schedules to 7shfits, Main Squeeze saw a 25% savings in labor costs in just 9 months—turning labor management from a chore into a competitive advantage. “It's like having the best restaurateur in the world, in your ear all day long,” says Jessie Williams, the Director of IT.

7shifts labor-management suite is made up of a number of tools that help your restaurant.

Scheduling

Say goodbye to broken excel spreadsheets, endless updates, and photos of schedules floating around. And definitely no more paper schedules. With 7shifts’ easy-to-use scheduling tools, you can create and assign shifts in seconds, easily make adjustments, keep up-to-date with time off and availability, and manage shift trade requests– all of which are automatically updated back into the schedule keeping your team on the same page. You also get integrating time-clocking to enforce your schedule, make tracking timesheets simple, and prevent time theft. 7shifts scheduling tools save managers time that they can put back into helping the business grow.

Communication

Once your schedule is made, 7shifts suite of communications tools lets you publish them instantly to your team via our free mobile app. Empower your team to easily swap and or drop and pick up shifts with manager approval. Send team-wide announcements with read receipts to keep everyone in the loop. Use the Manager Log Book feature as a centralized place for manager communication: customer complaints, employee notes, sales reports, and more. Even get alerts when someone doesn’t clock in or misses a break. With our business-centric communication tool, there’s no more juggling between texts, calls, and emails, no more communication breakdown, and no more sticky notes on your POS.

Labor Optimization

7shifts integrates with your existing POS and Payroll systems to help you make smarter business decisions and reduce errors. Use real-time data to dive deep into labor performance with robust labor and sales reports. Look at worked hours and wages to see where those dollars are going. Track time and attendance to find your most reliable employees. 7shifts creates the opportunity to identify your biggest gaps and enables you to take action. There’s no need to rely on gut feelings—get the data to ensure you hit your labor targets every single week.

Task Management

The best way to keep your restaurant running smoothly is by ensuring team accountability and process adherence. Task management makes it easy to create and assign tasks for every shift your team works and tracks completion. Managers get notified when tasks are complete (and when they aren’t) to keep the team accountable and track productivity. Your team can also check off list items on their own devices, eliminating whiteboards and laminated task lists once and for all. You’ll never find yourself asking “who closed last night!?” again.

Integrations

7shifts works with the tools you already use and trust, with dozens of payroll and point-of-sale partners. The power of integrated systems can help you make smarter, labor-saving business decisions. It can also streamline payroll with easier-than-ever compliance and recordkeeping.

Start a free trial today and make labor management your competitive advantage. No contracts, no setup fees, no hidden fees. Just the all-in-one platform your restaurant needs to make 2021 your best year yet.

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