Build your staff rota from one sentence
Tell Weekeye who works in your restaurant, when the rushes are and what the rules are. It builds the organization, the shifts and a fair weekly rota — in minutes, not evenings.
Your starting sentence — edit it before you sendOpen the builder with this exampleI run a restaurant with 12 employees: 2 chefs, 3 line cooks, 5 waiters and 2 bartenders. Two shifts a day, 11:00–17:00 and 17:00–23:30, Friday and Saturday evenings need one extra waiter. Nobody works more than 5 days a week.
Free, no sign-up. The sentence is only a start — change anything, then send.
Why teams choose Weekeye
- Rules that hold: rest between shifts, weekend fairness, maximum days per week — enforced by the scheduler, not by memory.
- Already have a rota in Excel or PDF? Drop it in and Weekeye reads roles, shifts and people out of it.
- Every waiter, cook and bartender sees their own shifts on their phone, with a notification when the board changes.
A restaurant staff rota built around the rush
Staff the rush, not the clock
Start the rota from what each part of the day needs, not from who happens to be free. Tell Weekeye how many cooks, waiters and bartenders lunch, the quiet afternoon and the dinner rush need, and remember that the numbers are concurrent: four waiters at 20:00 means four people on the floor at the same moment. Friday and Saturday evenings can carry their own headcount, so the extra waiter is planned in advance instead of called in. The scheduler covers every role in every slot, and a shift it could not fill is flagged before you publish.
Split shifts and part-timers without mistakes
Restaurants run on mixed contracts: students who can only work evenings, part-timers with a weekly cap, a chef on a split shift with a break between lunch and dinner. Describe each pattern in plain language, for example "part-time waiters work at most 3 shifts a week" or "lunch 11:00–15:00 and dinner 18:00–23:00 as separate shifts". A part-timer's cap becomes a hard rule instead of something you try to remember, and rest between a closing shift and the next opening is checked on every draft. When you move someone by hand, the change is checked against the same rules.
Weekend fairness you can actually show
Friday and Saturday nights are where complaints about favouritism start. Instead of rotating by memory, Weekeye balances weekends, nights and unpopular shifts across the whole team, so the same three names stop landing on every hard shift. You can still pin exceptions, such as a bartender who chooses to work every Saturday, and the rest of the week is generated around the pin. Employees send availability and swap requests from the app, a manager approves them, and the rota everyone sees on their phone stays the single, current version.
What it costs for a restaurant: a 25-employee example
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to sign up before I see anything?
No. The builder runs as a guest: describe your restaurant, watch the organization and rota appear, and sign up only when you want to save it.
Can it handle split shifts and weekend peaks?
Yes. Shifts, extra weekend staffing and per-role headcounts are all part of what you describe in plain language, and the scheduler covers them.
What if my staff have different availability every week?
Employees submit their availability and requests from the app; the next rota is generated around them while keeping your coverage rules.
Can I import the rota I already keep in Excel?
Yes. Upload your current rota as an Excel, CSV or text-based PDF file and Weekeye reads the roles, shifts and people out of it. The builder shows what it understood and asks before it assumes anything, and without an account you can try one file of up to 5 MB.
Can it enforce rest between a closing and an opening shift?
Yes. Minimum rest between shifts is a rule you state once, for example "at least 11 hours between shifts". The scheduler will not create a close-then-open pairing that breaks it, and a manual edit that breaks it is flagged. Check which minimum applies where your restaurant operates, since rest rules differ by country.
How does my team see the rota?
Once you save the organization, every waiter, cook and bartender sees their own shifts on their phone, submits availability and swap requests from the app, and gets a notification when the rota changes. No more posting a photo of the spreadsheet to the group chat every time something moves.
Ready to build your next schedule in minutes?
Describe your organization and let Weekeye's AI create the roster, rules and shifts for you.
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