SHIFT PLANNER #1 FOR FOOD SERVICE

Cafes, restaurants & bars: a schedule without chaos and shifts covered on time

Stop juggling spreadsheets and chasing people in chats. See your whole team's month, catch coverage gaps before they turn into an empty dining room.

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Sound familiar?

Familiar scenes.
Solved in a minute.

Pain

A waiter no-shows on a busy Friday - you find out an hour before service.

Solved

You see the coverage gap days in advance: an alert fires the moment a shift gets thin.

Pain

Every schedule change means phone calls, three chat threads and re-sending the spreadsheet.

Solved

Change a shift in one click. The staffer gets a notification, the team sees the live version.

Pain

Weekends swing between too many shifts and overpaying, or short staff and chaos in the kitchen.

Solved

Smengo shows coverage by role: «Kitchen · Sat - 2 slots open». You fix it ahead of time.

Features

Built for shifts in the kitchen and the floor

Six tools that cover 90% of what a restaurant manager does every week.

A month at a glance

Every kitchen, bar and floor shift on a single screen. Rows are people, columns are days, no separate sheets.

Telegram bot for the team

Staff see their shifts in Telegram. One-tap check-in, late arrivals highlighted automatically.

Shift swaps without chats

A barista can't make it - a replacement claims it from the feed in a minute. Manager approves in one click.

AI scheduling assistant

Smengo proposes next week's schedule for you, factoring in hours, time off and typical shift load. And if you run a Poster till, the attendance forecast feeds on its data automatically.

HR dashboard

See who's overworked, whose review is coming up, who hasn't finished paperwork - before it becomes a problem.

Onboarding for new hires

A new waiter goes through checklists and training right in the app - shows up to the first shift ready.

Get going in 3 steps. No training needed.

Sign up

Email and venue name. No card, no long forms.

Import your team

CSV or by hand: 30 staff added in 5 minutes.

Publish the schedule

Staff get a notification in Telegram or by email - everyone knows their shifts.

Telegram bot for your team

The whole shift lives in a bot your team already has

Clock-ins, today's schedule, availability, swaps and rules answers — inside the messenger your staff already uses. One link connects an employee in 30 seconds, no apps or passwords.

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Don't overpay for extra shifts. Don't lose revenue when you're short-staffed.

Smengo shows coverage by role and by hour - you can see where a shift is thin, and where you've put two people in a spot that only needs one.

Average shift coverage as a clear metric
Total hours per person for any period - no manual counting
Alerts when someone is on track to exceed hours this month

Average coverage improvement

+18%

Estimate based on a modeled team scenario — not customer data.

Early access

Join now — and shape the product around your shifts

Lock in early-access pricing for the future
Influence the roadmap — we build for real shift teams
14 days full access, no card

Ecosystem

Everything for floor and kitchen shifts — built in

Hiring waiters, training new staff, a schedule with POS demand forecast, check-ins and swaps in Telegram — one loop instead of five tools.

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Build your cafe's schedule in one evening.

14 days of full access. No card. 5-minute setup.

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Cafes, restaurants & bars: a schedule without chaos and shifts covered on time

Familiar scenes.
Solved in a minute.