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For restaurants, bars, and cafés

Service covered. Tips recorded. Hours ready to export.

A restaurant week starts with the sales forecast, the food-handler and alcohol-server cards you record, a note for the next manager, and cash tips entered with the shift.

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A place setting on a dining table, with a plate, napkin, and water glass. No people.

The week before AppyShift

What restaurant managers are juggling

A guess at tonight's floor

The schedule is a copy of last week, not tonight's sales forecast.

Tips in a notebook

Tip pools get rebuilt at the end of the night, then typed into payroll again.

A card in a drawer

The food-handler card expired and the server is already on the floor.

One week in AppyShift

The same week, with this industry's tools

Each screen is a real AppyShift page from a sample company, showing a tool this industry turns on.

Before serviceEvery plan

Staff from the sales forecast

Sales and labor for the week sit on one screen, so the floor matches the night you expect.

  • Forecast sales and scheduled labor for each day
  • Labor by role, such as line cook and server
Budget Tool for a sample restaurant for Nov 2 to Nov 8, 2026, grouped by role: $24,300 in forecast sales for the week and $6,396 of scheduled labor, 26.3% against a 28% target, with each day's sales, labor and hours, and line cook labor below.

The sales forecast from a sample restaurant. Each day's forecast sales sit beside the scheduled labor, and the labor share turns red on the days it runs over the 28% target.

On the schedulePro plan

The cards you record

A shift can require the food-handler card, or the alcohol-server card, that you keep. A missing or expired card stays off that shift.

  • The restaurant records the card
  • AppyShift does not confirm it with the state
Certification settings for a sample restaurant: an alcohol server card and a food handler permit, each expiring with a 30-day warning, and the requirements: a food handler permit for line cooks and servers, and an alcohol server card for servers.

The alcohol-server card and the food-handler card this restaurant records, and the roles that need them. AppyShift does not confirm either one with the state.

During servicePro plan

A note for the next manager

When the salmon special is 86'd, the note is in the log the next manager opens.

  • The title and the note stay on the shift
  • The next manager reads it in the log
Manager log for a sample restaurant on Oct 29: a flagged handoff to 86 the salmon special and offer the chicken or the trout, a walk-in cooler check at 38°F, a follow-up about a wobbly booth, and a party of 20 on Saturday, with the open follow-ups beside them.

The manager log from a sample restaurant. The flagged handoff tells the next shift the salmon special is 86'd.

After closeEvery plan

Cash tips for the shift

Tips are entered with the person and the shift, then leave with the hours export.

  • Cash tips recorded at close
  • They go out with the hours
Cash tips in the employee app for a sample restaurant: today's 3:00 PM to 9:00 PM shift with $64.50 typed in, Save and No cash tips, and the reminder that tips of $20 or more in a month are reported to the employer.

After clocking out, each person enters the cash tips for that shift on the phone. They leave with the hours export.

Turned on for this industry

What signup sets up

AppySchedule and AppyTime are in every plan, from $30 a month. These are the extra tools this industry starts with, the AppyShift module each one is part of, and the plan it needs. You can change them in setup.

Every plan

Sales forecasts

Plan how many people each shift needs.

AppySchedule

Pro plan

Food-handler checks

The card you record, checked before a shift is offered.

AppySchedule

Every plan

Tips and tip pooling

Recorded with the shift and included in the hours export.

AppyTime

Pro plan

Manager logbook

Shift notes the next manager can read.

AppyConnect

Certification checks use the cards you record, and can keep someone off a shift when a required card is missing or expired. AppyShift does not confirm a license with the state. Approved hours leave in a payroll export (ADP, Gusto, UKG, Paychex, Paycom, Paylocity, or a CSV). Or run payroll right in AppyShift with AppyPayroll.

Servers Cooks Hosts Shift leads Openers and closers

Questions from restaurant managers

What this setup does, and what it leaves with you.

Can employees pick up a restaurant shift after a call-out?

Yes, when open-shift pickup is enabled. Managers choose whether qualified pickup requests require review or can follow configured automatic approval.

Can AppyShift manage different restaurant roles?

Managers can organize schedules by positions and locations, then use those configured requirements in scheduling and eligible pickup workflows.

Build a clearer restaurant coverage process

Review AppySchedule, AppyTime and the policy guide that support coverage-change handling.

Module

AppySchedule

Employee scheduling built for shift-based teams: build and publish schedules, manage availability, and keep everyone informed about when they work.

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Module

AppyTime

Time and attendance that tracks every hour and gives managers what they need to manage hourly labor.

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Free resource

Employee Availability Form Template

Use the weekly form to record an effective date range, available hours, and shift preferences, then share or export a copy for your manager.

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Free resource

Time Card Calculator with Breaks and Overtime

Enter each shift and unpaid break to calculate regular hours, overtime hours, decimal totals, and an optional gross-pay estimate. Everything stays in your browser.

Learn more →

The AppyShift modules

Eight modules, one app

A different kind of team

Other industries

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