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Time tracking and scheduling for restaurants

FOH/BOH coverage, tip pooling, late-night shift swaps, and a kiosk by the POS — built for owner-operated restaurants, not a chain HQ.

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Pain points every restaurants owner knows

These aren't hypothetical — they're the exact headaches that eat your Friday afternoons and make payroll week miserable.

  • FOH and BOH share a roster but need different rules — servers tip out, line cooks don't, and your spreadsheet can't tell the difference.
  • Saturday night a server walks. The group chat lights up, three people claim the shift, and nobody actually shows.
  • Tip pooling math eats Sunday afternoon — hours by role, by shift, by tipped vs non-tipped, all tracked by hand.
  • Late-night clock-outs at 2am go missed and the closing manager fixes them on Monday from memory.

Features that fix it — mapped to your workflow

Every bullet below links to a feature page with full details, screenshots, and FAQ. Nothing vaporware — it's either live or on the 90-day roadmap.

POS-side kiosk

iPad on the wall by the line — PIN-and-photo clock-in, no smartphones required for the back of house.

FOH/BOH scheduling

Separate role views for front and back, copy-last-week templates, and availability that respects college schedules.

Structured swaps

Open shifts post to qualified servers only — no group-chat chaos, full audit trail.

Late-night exceptions

Missed clock-outs surface for the closing manager before they leave, not on Monday.

Monday-to-Friday in ShiftDeck

Here's what a typical week looks like for a restaurants shop running ShiftDeck. No theory — just the steps.

  1. Set up FOH and BOH as separate roles with their own pay rates and tip-pool flags.
  2. Pin an iPad by the POS for kiosk clock-in; staff with phones use the mobile app.
  3. Build the week from a Saturday-night template, publish to phones in one tap.
  4. Sunday: review tipped hours by section, export to payroll with tip totals broken out.

Restaurants FAQ

Hours and roles are tagged on every punch, so you can export tipped hours per role per shift and feed them into your tip-pool spreadsheet or POS. We don't run the distribution itself — your POS or accountant does — but we make the inputs clean.

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Run your restaurants team on ShiftDeck

GPS-verified clock-ins, drag-and-drop scheduling, one-click payroll export — built for owner-operators, not enterprise procurement.

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$69/mo · $690/yr (save ~17 %) · $499 Founders Lifetime (100 spots)