Your team works multiple roles, swaps shifts on the fly, and never stops moving. ShiftFlow keeps up so your timesheets are accurate, your labor costs are visible, and payroll just works.
1,240+ restaurant teams using ShiftFlow
Restaurants combine payroll complexity, service-time pressure, and nonstop staffing changes. Generic time clocks usually solve clock-ins. Restaurant time tracking has to solve operations.
Pay Rules
A single Saturday can combine tipped work, support work, and different hourly rates for the same team member.
Service Pressure
Restaurants do not run on static schedules. Breaks get interrupted, coverage changes by the hour, and labor cost can swing fast.
Operations
High turnover, same-day hires, and spotty Wi-Fi are normal restaurant conditions, not edge cases.
Before & After
Every "before" scenario comes from real restaurants running paper timesheets and generic time clocks. ShiftFlow eliminates each one automatically.
Server at $5.50/hr also hosts at $14/hr and payroll calculates overtime on the lowest rate
Server works through Saturday lunch rush and the system auto-deducts 30 minutes anyway
New hire starts Tuesday but can't clock in until Thursday because the system isn't set up yet
POS says 38 hours, time clock says 42, and the manager has to figure out which is right
Weighted overtime calculated automatically from role-tagged hours across the full workweek.
Actual break start and end times recorded by the team member. No assumed deductions.
Team members download the app and clock in the same shift they're hired.
Time records and POS data reconciled before export. Discrepancies flagged before they become payroll problems.
Back Wages Recovered
$274M
Food service leads all industries in DOL wage violations. In 2023 alone, $274M was recovered across more than 163,000 workers.
8 to 15
Missed Punches Per Week
The average restaurant sees 8 to 15 missed punches every week. Each one takes a few minutes to fix, adding up to over an hour of lost manager time.
~33%
Target Labor Cost
Profitable full-service restaurants keep labor cost between 30 and 35 percent of revenue. Without real-time visibility, most don't catch overruns until payroll closes.
75%+
Annual Staff Turnover
Restaurant turnover averages 75 to 100 percent per year. Your time clock needs to onboard new team members in minutes, not days.
Restaurant Testimonial
“We had three servers working double roles and a bartender on a different pay rate. Our old system calculated overtime on the lowest rate. ShiftFlow got us the weighted average right the first week.”
Maria Santos
General Manager, Sal's Kitchen & Bar
Role-based clock-in, verified break tracking, tip credit monitoring, weighted overtime, and payroll-ready exports. Built for restaurant operations, not retrofitted from generic tools.
Compliance
When every punch, break, and edit is tracked automatically, audit-ready records are a natural byproduct of daily operations instead of a separate project. ShiftFlow gives you what DOL investigators actually ask for: timestamped clock-ins with role and location, verified break logs, every timecard edit with who changed what and why, and complete payroll records organized by pay period.
Restaurants with organized, timestamped records resolve investigations faster and face lower penalties. With ShiftFlow, you already have what they need because accurate timekeeping is how the system works every day, not something you scramble to produce when audited.
Deep dives on tip compliance, weighted overtime, break law, and the specific timekeeping problems that cost restaurant operators real money.
How to identify illegal edits, prevent off-the-clock work, and build defensible time records that protect your business.
How to track meal and rest breaks, avoid auto-deduct traps, and stay compliant with state break laws.
Federal and state overtime rules, how weighted rates work for multi-role staff, and how to prevent overtime from inflating labor costs.
The root causes of sync errors between POS and payroll systems and how to build a reconciliation workflow that catches them.
How to evaluate offline mode limitations, build a damage control plan, and prevent outages from wrecking your labor records.
How role-based time tracking prevents weighted overtime miscalculations, pay rate mistakes, and labor cost distortions.
Tip credit rules, pooling requirements, dual-job restrictions, and how to build a compliant tip tracking workflow.
A compliance checklist to build audit-ready timekeeping records that protect your business from back-pay claims and penalties.
The real financial impact of buddy punching and how to prevent it without disrupting service.
Why missed punches are an epidemic in restaurants and the system design fixes that reduce them.
Answers to the overtime, tip credit, break compliance, and operational questions restaurant operators actually ask.
14 day free trial with every feature unlocked. Set up your restaurant in minutes and team members clock in the same shift they download the app.
