Plan lunch and dinner services with front and back of house in one rota, handle call-outs without a phone tree, and see the week’s base wage estimate before you publish.
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Sample restaurant week
3 open shifts on this rota
Auto-fill
Tue
Manager
10:00–18:00
Carlos
Line cook
10:30–15:00
Dev
Wed
Server
11:00–15:00
Hannah
Thu
Line cook
16:00–22:30
Dev
Fri
Server
17:00–23:00
Open shift
Host
17:00–22:00
Mei
Dishwasher
17:30–23:30
Sam
Sat
Line cook
16:00–23:00
Dev
Server
17:00–23:00
Hannah
Server
17:00–23:00
Open shift
Sun
Host
11:00–16:00
Open shift
What gets in the way of a good rota
Two services a day, two teams to plan
Build lunch and dinner shifts for floor and kitchen in one week view, and copy the pattern forward when it works.
Friday night call-outs
When someone can’t make it, they request cover in the app. They stay on the rota until you approve a replacement.
Labour creeping up on quiet nights
A base wage estimate updates as you build, so you can trim a slow Tuesday before the week is published.
Built for how restaurants work
Copy last week
Most weeks look like the last one. Copy it forward, adjust the few shifts that changed and publish.
Plan by location
Week grid and list views on any screen
Auto-fill open shifts
Fill every open shift in one step. Rosterly picks people who are free, have the shift’s skill and stay under the weekly hour limit you choose, least-booked first.
Stays within your weekly hour limit
Skips unavailable and on-leave staff
Shift release and cover
Staff ask to release a shift and others offer to cover. The original person stays rostered until a manager approves, so no shift is left empty by accident.
Requests in one place, not a group chat
Everyone affected hears about the decision
Labour cost estimate
See an estimate of base wages for the week as you build it, from each person’s base hourly rate. Penalty rates, awards and overtime stay with your payroll provider.
Rates visible to managers only
Per location and currency
One-tap time clock
Servers and cooks clock in from their phones when service starts. Server time means nobody’s clock runs fast, and breaks between services come out of paid time.
Server time
Breaks started and ended in the app
Timesheet approval
Managers review hours, correct mistakes with a reason and approve. Every change is recorded.
Corrections need a reason
Changes kept in an audit trail
Your first rota in three steps
01
Add your restaurant, then the roles you schedule: servers, hosts, cooks and dish.
02
Invite your team by email. Each person joins with a one-time code.
03
Build lunch and dinner shifts, auto-fill the open ones and publish to everyone.
Priced per workspace, not per person
Hiring another casual shouldn’t raise your software bill. Put in your own numbers to see what your rota costs today.
Staff on your team
Hours a week you spend on the rota
Your hourly cost as a manager
£
Per-person price you pay today (optional)
£
Rosterly for 29 staff
Business: A$119 a month, flat
Up to 60 staff, every feature, staff never pay.
Your time on the rota today: about £390 a month.
Your figures stay in your browser. Rosterly prices are in Australian dollars, including GST.
Rosterly vs a spreadsheet and a group chat
Swaps and cover
Requested and approved in the app
Messages that get missed
Right skills on
Checked before anyone is assigned
Checked by memory
Hours
Clocked on server time, breaks excluded
Typed up from paper
Payroll
Approved hours as a CSV
Copied by hand
Rosterly doesn’t read POS sales, forecast covers or calculate tips, overtime or penalty rates. Those stay with your POS and payroll provider.
Questions, answered.
Next week’s rota, done before close.
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