Your restaurant’s team is key to your business success. Without proper staff management, you could be wasting lots of time and effort. Not to mention wasting money and valuable resources!
This is why Perfect Venue is partnering with 7shifts! This is a powerful staff scheduling and employee management solution. 7shifts is designed for the hospitality industry and offers a wide range of features to help restaurants and venues with efficient staff management.
Let’s explore what 7shifts is, how it works, and how you can use it with Perfect Venue.
What is 7shifts?
7shifts is a complete team management platform designed for restaurants. The platform gives restaurant owners all the tools they need to enhance their operations and manage their staff. This can help restaurants boost staff retention, make more profitable staffing decisions, and save time, effort, and headaches in managing staff.
7shifts is designed for both front-of-house and back-of-house staffing. As restaurants rely so heavily on their teams, having the right employee management solution in place is essential. 7shifts is trusted by over 40, 000 restaurants and 1 million restaurant professionals and is a worthwhile platform to consider.
7shifts Features
As one of the most extensive restaurant scheduling solutions, 7shifts comes with a wide range of features.
The platform takes care of all your staffing needs via five main areas. These are:
- Hire: 7shifts includes beneficial hiring, onboarding, and document storage tools to make sure your restaurant is set up with the right staff members.
- Train: With training videos, task management, and team communication features, 7shifts ensures staff members are all set up on the right foot. This helps your business get the most out of every team member.
- Schedule: Labor compliance, time-tracking, and scheduling tools make it far easier to stay on top of your workforce for easier staff management.
- Pay: 7shifts also covers tip pooling, and payroll management, and handles tip payouts for staff. This saves loads of time and makes managing staff a far easier process.
- Retain: Hospitality businesses can keep staff engaged through various communication, engagement, and manager logbook features. This increases the lifetime value of each staff member.
By using all of these different features together, which are all perfectly integrated, managing restaurants and venues with large staff counts becomes a far easier and more efficient process.
Benefits of Using 7shifts for Your Business
Using the right employee scheduling software can help restaurants in many ways. As staff plays such a fundamental role in any restaurant’s operations, you need to be able to efficiently manage staffing operations and make smart staffing decisions.
Here are some of the main benefits of using 7shifts to help you pull this off.
Saves Money
One of the main advantages of using 7shifts for your restaurant is to save money on labor costs.
By using 7shifts, you can smarter decisions around staffing. This means you always have the right number of staff working certain shifts, without ever having to worry about under or over-staffing your restaurant.
This helps you optimize your employee management, which can save restaurants significant amounts of money. Restaurants that use 7shifts can save $2, 000 per month on labor. What’s not to love?
Saves Time
Managing and scheduling staff is a time-consuming process - especially when you have many staff members. Using 7shifts makes this process a lot easier, saving restaurants 80% less time scheduling staff.
The platform can help automate staff scheduling, ensuring the right people are working the right shifts every time. No need to worry about scheduling issues or errors, as the platform will handle all of this for you.
Improves Staff Communication
7shifts can help restaurants reduce staff calls and texts by 70%. This is because the platform automates scheduling, and notifies staff of any changes in their schedules. If staff members have queries, they can communicate this easily through the platform.
So not only does 7shifts make it easier for restaurants to manage their schedules, but it also streamlines operations for restaurant staff.
Limits Time-Theft
The saying “time is money” is only too true when it comes to running a restaurant. By using 7shifts to manage staffing operations, restaurant managers and staff can save significant amounts of time. Valuable time that can be spent attending to customers.
Forget about wasting time checking schedules or managing shifts, this is all done automatically through the platform. By using 7shifts, restaurants are saving $500 per month by limiting time-theft.
Using 7shifts and Perfect Venue
7shifts is a preferred partner of Perfect Venue - offering the ideal software complement to our all-in-one event management solution.
While our event management platform is extensive, it does not offer solutions for managing all of your staffing needs. By using 7shifts alongside Perfect Venue, restaurants and events venues can significantly streamline all of their operations. Staff play such a crucial role in these venues, so it only makes sense to use powerful employee management software to make things easier.
7shifts is simple to set up, and when implemented, it gives hospitality professionals far greater power in managing their businesses. By using the alongside a solution like Perfect Venue, all of your venue management needs will be met.
Final Thoughts
If more effective staff management is something you’re interested in, then 7shifts is the ideal solution to help you get it right. Although the two platforms are not fully integrated just yet, you can easily use 7shifts alongside Perfect Venue to help make running your restaurant far more efficient.
If you're eager to use the two platforms side by side, reach out to the team at Perfect Venue (hello@perfectvenue.com) today to learn more.
