Restaurant Scheduling Software for All Your Locations

Employee shift scheduling has never been so easy.

Labor & Scheduling Software for Restaurants

Put down the sticky notes, and stop trying to track down texts. The restaurant industry is fast paced and restaurant managers like you have much more important things to do. We’re here with our robust tools to help you with staff scheduling, task management, shift reminders, time tracking, employee requests, and labor compliance. Our restaurant scheduling software allows you to easily create and communicate schedules, manage compliance with labor laws, schedule staff at the levels you need, and enforce clocking.

Save time, streamline operations, and reduce labor costs with our cloud-based employee scheduling software. Coordinate all your locations from a single platform. Our employee scheduling solution holds everything in one place, across all locations.

Your New Restaurant Scheduling App - Cover by SynergySuite

Our restaurant scheduling app, Cover, is the perfect solution for your scheduling tasks, and companion for our restaurant management software. Make communication between managers and employees a snap across several restaurant locations. Cover gives employers the ability to easily manage restaurant staffing, while allowing employees to have better visibility into and power over their schedules, all in the palm of their hand. This is your all-in-one team management platform.

For Managers

Quickly build employee work schedules that push to the app
See employee availability at a glance
Automate reminder notifications to employees about their shifts
Real-time schedule management
Easy shift swap approvals
Manager approval made easy: approve or decline time off
Employee push communications

For Restaurant Staff

View work schedules from anywhere through easy user-friendly interface
Easily swap shifts
Show your availability
Request time off
View hours worked
See who else is scheduled with you

How Do We Drive Your Business?

Experience How We Can Help You Grow

4%

Savings on Food

3%

Savings on Labor

20%

GM Time Saved

75%

Faster Reporting

Reduce Time Spent by Streamlining Your Employee Scheduling

Automatic Schedule Creation

Generate an optimized restaurant schedule in minutes for each location based on forecasted sales.

Perfect for Multiple Locations

Centralized employee availability management. Make it easy and efficient to manage restaurant schedules at multiple locations with custom scheduling templates for each location manager, a central time-off approval portal, and advanced reporting across every location.

Easily Manage Team Requests

Employees can request shift swaps and time off from their mobile devices, and managers can quickly review and approve requests.

Overtime Tracking and Alerts

Violating labor regulations can be costly. Warn managers of potential overtime to avoid unnecessary overtime costs, keep your employees from being overworked, and stay compliant with local and national labor laws.

Improve Communication

Team communication is vital for any successful restaurant, but especially when it comes to restaurant scheduling. Utilize our restaurant scheduling app, Cover, to ensure your team has an easy and efficient communication channel.

Restaurant Scheduling Software Your Staff Will Love

Easily See Upcoming Shifts

Eliminate the challenges of last-minute schedule updates, so your employees can plan ahead and address any conflicts or concerns well before the shift starts. Scheduling templates and scheduling recommendations can help managers create and display schedules ahead of time.

Simple Shift Swaps

From one central restaurant scheduling app, employees can easily communicate about their schedules and work out shift changes and coverage, without putting a strain on the manager.

Update Availability

SynergySuite restaurant scheduling software allows every employee to update their availability, allowing managers to schedule accurately, team members to communicate about coverage, and to avoid time-consuming mix-ups.

View Hours Worked

Enable your employees to know exactly how many hours they’ve worked and are scheduled for, without having to text their managers.

Manage Time Off Requests

Scheduling time off is easy. In addition to managing their own shift swapping with other employees, your team can have a simple and easy way to request time off and receive approvals without having to find time in the middle of a shift to speak with their manager.

Get Alerts and Real-Time Updates for Any Schedule Changes

No one likes to be caught off guard. Our restaurant employee scheduling software provides real-time shift notifications and updates to each employee to notify them as soon as possible of any early or last-minute changes.

What Our Clients Say

“I’ve been a restaurant operator for a long time and one of the biggest challenges is finding a back-office solution that is as robust and easy to use as SynergySuite. It gives you all the right answers to your questions to run a successful operation. As an owner, it also shows correct indicators and what direction the restaurant is going.”

“The SynergySuite team listens... as opposed to a company that says, 'That’s just the way it is.' I like the dynamic approach to making changes. Once we got the system, we immediately started training on how to fully use the inventory portion as well as the labor scheduling and we continue to use that today. In those [more recently acquired] restaurants, we’ve improved food costs from when we purchased them by over 2%.”

“I’ve had managers say, ‘I have everything I need in the palm of my hand.’ And by saving managers time, we get better data, so win-win.”

"In this business, pennies make dollars... And we want franchisees to have an asset that makes them money. SynergySuite gives us that opportunity to look at food costs and labor costs in real time and see what's going on at the unit level, and allow us to forecast out and understand what's going on in the business."

“Using SynergySuite, I have seen as much as 2-2.5% decrease across the board in food waste.”

“My bible is the Daily Cash Report. This report allows me to quickly get a pulse on where the café is as far as overall sales, sales by items, categories, top sellers, and day part. This really helps us to keep on top of ordering and inventory.”

“We religiously do inventory across our organization and we review our variances on a weekly basis, and put action plans against any opportunities. This past year, we ran a food and paper cost of 26.5% across our organization, which was a record year for us.”

“SynergySuite gives us a good baseline to assess ROI — where we are, where we’re going. We can now get into a customer data platform, a loyalty platform, and really understand what our biggest sellers are. We can do competitive analysis among franchisees, and segment by regions.”

“We have more capability of looking into the details on this system than we did with our previous system. Your ability to look at things on a daily basis is much more intense. Whether it’s food costs, labor, end of day, cash reconciliation, all those daily reports and weekly reports, you’re able to deep dive quicker and, as long as you set up the reports and follow up on them, we’re able to react much quicker.”

Improve Schedule and Payroll Accuracy

Dedicated Clocking App

Our clocking-specific app creates better flow in the restaurant, while ensuring employees are clocking in on premises with IP or Wi-Fi restricted clocking.

Accurate Timekeeping

Ensure staff are clocking in and out for breaks or automatically deduct required break times to ensure proper documentation and labor-law compliance.

Payroll Integration

We can streamline the payroll process by integrating with your favorite payroll provider. Managers can easily validate and adjust clocking data and then send it directly into your existing payroll system for fast and accurate payroll processing. Our software integrates seamlessly with a wide range of systems.
. See our payroll integrations.

Hourly Sales vs Labor Costs

Labor cost management is a vitally important task in the restaurant business.

Optimize your labor budget with slick analytics features. Control labor costs and prevent excessive staffing costs with hour-to-hour sales versus labor cost reports, and other advanced reporting metrics to ensure your restaurants are always as efficient as possible.

Ensure Business and Regulatory Compliance

Monitor Employee Attendance

Maintain accurate records of and perform audits on employee clock-ins/outs to see if breaks are being taken at the required intervals.

Scheduling Laws

Get alerts when schedules breach shift warnings, including federal, state, and local labor laws, with alerts for managers to be aware of any potential overtime limits.

Schedule Changes

Maintain a standby list for employees who volunteer to pick up additional shifts to avoid paying premium rates or accidentally over-scheduling team members.

Custom Checklists

Complex tasks made simpler. The team app also includes custom checklists, so your team has everything they need at their fingertips to make their jobs easier, and ensure proper procedures across your locations.

See what's on our menu

Schedule a demo of our restaurant management system today to discover which features and modules will work best for your business.

Restaurant Scheduling Software FAQs

Learn more about SynergySuite’s restaurant scheduling software.

What is restaurant scheduling software?

Restaurant employee scheduling software is a type of software designed to help restaurant owners and managers streamline their employee scheduling processes. This software is a comprehensive solution that can automate many of the manual tasks associated with scheduling, such as creating employee schedules, managing shift swaps, attendance management and sending schedule updates to employees.

Overall, restaurant scheduling software can help restaurants save time and reduce costs associated with manual scheduling processes. By automating many of the tasks associated with scheduling, restaurant owners and managers can focus on other important aspects of their business, such as menu development and customer service, while also ensuring that they are meeting labor laws and maintaining proper staffing levels.

What systems does SynergySuite integrate with?

SynergySuite is designed to integrate directly with your POS, accounting, payroll and broadline distributors. View the list of compatible integrations.

Do I need to have a certain number of locations?

SynergySuite works best for multi-unit concepts. Our customers typically have 20 locations or more to get the most benefit from SynergySuite.

That said, we understand that every restaurant enterprise is unique, has unique challenges and requires unique solutions. If you’re curious about what SynergySuite can do specifically to make your restaurant run as efficiently as possible, get in touch with us and we’ll answer any questions you have and we’ll see what we can do for you to make your job easier.

Do you calculate overtime?

Yes. Easily manage overtime within SynergySuite, and receive alerts to better manage expected overtime.

Can I clock in on my POS or do you offer clocking?

Yes! Acting as a virtual punch clock is a core feature of SynergySuite. Clock in on your POS of choice, or utilize our Clocking App functionality to streamline your clock-in, clock-out process.

Is there an app for employees?

Yes, employees can manage their schedule with our Cover app. The Cover app also provides additional functionality for employees include shift swaps, time off requests and chat between managers and other employees.

Does SynergySuite comply with local labor laws?

Yes. SynergySuite is a powerful labor compliance tool. We provide the tools and resources to ensure that your managers are compliant with local labor laws across individual locations and regions.

Can you loan employees in the system?

Yes, easily loan employees across locations from within SynergySuite.