Best Restaurant Scheduling Software (2026): Top 11 Compared

7shifts builds team management software only for restaurants. Its pricing page offers three plans. Comp is free for a single location with up to 15 employees and covers schedule building, open-shift trading, availability, time-off requests and one-way announcements. Pro adds templates, break scheduling, team messaging, SMS reminders, time clocking, PTO accruals and labor compliance tools, including geofenced clock-in and state-based labor law checks. Premium adds employee training, payroll, tip management, task lists and onboarding packages.

Prices are set per location and change with the team-size selector. Franchise groups are directed to sales for discounted terms, and a 14-day trial of Pro needs no credit card.

Homebase sells scheduling, time tracking and team management to small hourly businesses and has a dedicated restaurant page. Basic is free for one location with up to 10 employees and includes basic scheduling, time tracking and point-of-sale integration. Essentials adds advanced scheduling, advanced time tracking and team communication. Plus adds an AI scheduling assistant, PTO controls and departments and permissions. All-in-One adds onboarding, labor cost management and HR and compliance tools.

Add-ons include payroll, a Tip Manager that reads tips from the POS, background checks, task lists and hiring tools. During the October 2026 check, the page advertised a limited-time offer of six free months of payroll and Plus.

Sling is a scheduling and team communication app that now operates as Sling by Toast, according to a banner on its own site. The free plan covers shift scheduling, team messaging and calendar synchronisation for up to 30 users. Premium adds mobile time tracking and labor cost management that compares labor against sales. Business adds kiosk time tracking on a shared device, reports on hours and wages for payroll, no-show and sick call-out tracking and PTO approval.

The pricing page notes that Toast customers can view plans in Toast Shop. Sling remains sold separately to businesses that do not use Toast.

When I Work sells employee scheduling, time and attendance and team messaging to hourly businesses and maintains a restaurant page. Essentials includes auto scheduling, multi-week and multi-location scheduling, templates, forecast tools, in-app messaging, OpenShifts, shift swapping and payroll and POS integrations. Pro adds scheduling rules, role permissions, labor sharing across locations, custom unit forecasting, callout reporting and custom reports. Premium adds API keys, webhooks and SAML single sign-on.

Time Tracking and Attendance is switched on or off per plan. The FAQ states multi-location businesses start at $5 per user, so a restaurant group should budget from Pro.

Deputy sells workforce management for shift-based businesses. Lite covers basic scheduling, time tracking, messaging and payroll and HR integrations. Core, marked most popular, adds advanced scheduling, auto-scheduling, micro-scheduling, biometric time clocking, advanced labor law compliance, demand forecasting, labor optimisation, wage and labor budgets and a customer success manager for eligible accounts. Pro adds custom access controls, automation, deeper insights and priority support.

Deputy lists payroll through Paycor, an HR module, Messaging+ and Analytics+ as add-ons. The FAQ states that administrators and supervisors also count as users, which a restaurant should include when estimating the per-user bill.

Connecteam is an employee app for frontline and deskless teams, sold as three hubs. The Operations Hub contains the time clock with GPS, job scheduling, forms and quick tasks. Basic includes open shifts and payroll integration; Advanced adds repeating shifts, templates and a shareable schedule link; Expert adds automation. The Communications Hub covers chat, updates and surveys, and the HR and Skills Hub covers time off, training, documents and onboarding.

Connecteam does not publish a restaurant-specific product. It suits a restaurant that values checklists and flat pricing more than POS sales forecasting.

Square Shifts is Square's labor management product for sellers on Square Point of Sale. Its page lists scheduling and shift management, time tracking and attendance, labor-cost reporting, payroll preparation, time-off requests, shift swapping, tip and commission management and automatic timecards. The pricing page describes shift scheduling with availability, open shifts, trades and cover requests, plus timecards with break and overtime tracking and tip pooling across tip-eligible staff on shift.

The Shifts FAQ states the product is included in Square Plus and Square Premium. It integrates with Square Payroll or exports to third-party payroll providers.

Push sells payroll, HR and workforce management for hospitality and lists restaurants, quick service, coffee shops and pizzerias as target industries. Signature includes payroll, digital onboarding, applicant tracking, license and visa expiry tracking, POS-integrated scheduling, labor forecasting, shift swapping, compliance alerts and photo-capture time tracking. Supreme adds auto scheduling, advanced forecasting, multi-location employee linking, facial recognition time tracking, province-specific break compliance and an enterprise dashboard. Enterprise adds BI Insights and engagement surveys.

Every listed plan includes unlimited employees, administrators and locations.

Toast Scheduling is Toast's scheduling product for restaurants on its POS. The product page describes sales forecasting from historical POS data, with weather and labor costs as inputs, and a Scheduling Agent that drafts schedules from availability and projected sales for a manager to review and publish. Toast IQ highlights past overstaffing and lets managers edit shifts on the go, and staff use the MyToast app to view, offer and swap shifts.

Toast also owns Sling, which it sells separately for businesses outside the Toast POS.

HotSchedules is the scheduling and team management product of Fourth, which owns it and sells it within a restaurant operations suite. The HotSchedules page claims 120,000 locations and describes schedules built from sales and labor data, demand-matched staffing to reduce overtime, predictive scheduling and labor law alerts for multi-location compliance, and mobile access for managers and staff. It also lists instant digital tip payouts and early wage access.

Fourth sells payroll, HR, inventory and analytics alongside HotSchedules, and Fourth iQ adds AI forecasting.

Harri describes itself as a workforce platform for hospitality and lists limited-service restaurants, full-service restaurants, hotels and franchises as target segments. Its pricing page splits the platform into hiring bundles and workforce bundles. Base covers scheduling, break compliance, absence management, shift swaps, timeclock, communication, task management and earned wage access. Core adds predictive scheduling, minor employment rules, smart scheduling, POS demand forecasting, shift pools and offline timeclock. Perform adds activity-based scheduling, geofenced timeclock, leave of absence and a risk dashboard.

The harri.com domain now redirects to harri.ai.