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.
Sound familiar?
Familiar scenes.
Solved in a minute.
Pain
A waiter no-shows on a busy Friday - you find out an hour before service.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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%
Based on anonymized data from pilot teams.
«We used to spend 2 hours a week putting the schedule together - now it's 15 minutes. Conflicts show up in advance, and we stopped firefighting on Saturday mornings.»
Alexander, GM
Coffee shop chain
Build your cafe's schedule in one evening.
14 days of full access. No card. 5-minute setup.