For restaurants & bars
No signup, nothing for your team to install. Drop your servers, hosts, line cooks and bartenders into a spreadsheet-style Mon–Sun grid and ShiftCraft adds up everyone’s hours and shows the cover on each service, so no dinner rush goes short. Print a clean sheet or save a PDF in about two minutes — free.
No login. Nothing to install. Free · your team stays on this device · next week starts from last week.
| Staff | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | Hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maria — Head chef | 8 | · | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | · | 53 |
| Tom — Line cook | · | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 46 |
| Aïsha — Server | · | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 37 |
| Jordan — Host | · | · | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 26 |
| Sam — Bartender | · | · | · | 5 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 25 |
| Coverage | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 187 |
Your real rota updates these totals live as you type. Start a blank week →
Most “restaurant schedule templates” are a blank Excel grid you still have to do the maths on. ShiftCraft is a working weekly shift schedule maker: type the hours each person works and it totals their week, flags how many people are on each day, and lets you print a clean sheet for the pass. It is built for the way restaurant weeks actually run — quiet Mondays, building toward a heavy Friday and Saturday dinner service.
Because everything saves in your own browser, there is no account to set up and nothing to install. Open it on the office laptop, build the week, print it for the kitchen and email a CSV to anyone who needs it.
Every venue is different, but most small restaurants juggle the same handful of shift shapes across front- and back-of-house. Map your people onto these before you start typing hours.
Kitchen prep
7:00 – 15:00
Chef and a cook in early to receive deliveries, prep stock and mise en place before doors open.
Lunch service
11:30 – 15:30
A lighter front-of-house — one or two servers and a host — through the midday covers.
Split / turnaround
break 15:30 – 17:00
Staff who work lunch and dinner take an unpaid break between services; log the combined hours.
Dinner service
17:00 – 23:00
Your heaviest shift — full kitchen, more servers, a bartender and a host on the door.
Labour is usually the second-biggest line after food cost, and the rota is where you either control it or lose it. Think in covers and sittings, not just bodies: a Saturday running two dinner sittings needs a deeper line — a chef on the pass, a commis prepping, an expo calling the tickets — while a slow Tuesday can run on a skeleton brigade. Before you publish, read each station against the forecast: are you carrying a third server on a night that rarely breaks forty covers? ShiftCraft’s weekly hours total turns that hunch into a number. Multiply the week’s scheduled hours by your blended hourly rate, set it beside projected sales, and you have a labour-cost percentage you can defend to an owner before a single shift is worked.
Yes — completely free, with no account, trial or card. Your rota is saved in your own browser rather than on a server, so it stays private to you.
Yes. Enter the total hours a person works that day. For a split lunch-and-dinner shift, type the combined hours (for example 7.5) and the weekly total adds them up automatically.
Each person is their own row, so you can group servers, hosts and bartenders together and keep chefs and line cooks in their own block. The coverage row counts everyone scheduled on each day.
Yes. The footer totals scheduled hours for the week, so you can weigh labour against your sales forecast before the rota goes up.
Free, no sign-up, saved on your device. Add your team and the hours total themselves.
Open the rota maker →