Restaurant scheduling
Availability, the schedule and shift changes in one app your whole team already has on their phone.
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The schedule
Forecast, labor targets and confirmations in the same view. Publish it, and every teammate has it live in their pocket, never on a printed sheet.
Availability
Each person sets a usual week once, marks the days that change, and answers when you open a new period. The schedule is then built on what the team can actually work.
Shift changes
In the Shift Marketplace, a shift can be handed to a teammate, opened to the team, covered or picked up.
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In the Shift Marketplace, a shift can be handed to a teammate, opened to the team, covered or picked up. The conversation about a change happens in the team chat that already carries the shift and the tasks around it, not in a separate app.
The moment you publish, it is live in every teammate's pocket: the same schedule, the same version, on iOS, Android or the web. No printed sheet, and no separate thread to keep in sync by hand.
Yes. Gid runs on iOS, Android and the web, so the schedule, the tasks and the training live in the pocket of everyone on shift. Nothing depends on the office computer.
Yes, they are the same app. Tasks, shifts and every ops detail travel right inside the conversation, and the whole team sees what is done and what is next, live from the floor.
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In My Availability, each person saves a usual week, every day Available, Off or Replacement only, then adds time off and exceptions for the dates that change.
They add an exception for those dates in Time off and exceptions, and mark them unavailable or available. Their usual week does not change.
Yes. The Availability Cockpit shows who has given availability for the period and who has not, and one tap reminds the team, at most once a day.
When you assign a shift, Smart assign leaves out people who are not available that day, and an open shift cannot be picked up outside someone's saved availability. A manager's override for a day is kept, with its note, in the activity history.
Each person sets the hours and the days they want each week, and can pick up open shifts in the Shift Marketplace within their availability and weekly hours.
$29 USD per location per month at the Founders rate, $89 USD at the public rate, with your whole team included; adding people never raises your bill. Availability, the schedule, the tasks and the team chat are the same app, at the same price.
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Price and next step
The Founders rate is $29 USD per location per month, $89 public; adding people never raises the bill. Try a free workspace first, no card.
The problem
The shifts are in one app, the group chat is personal texts, the tasks are on a whiteboard, and the training is a binder nobody opens on a Tuesday. Six places to update, six places to miss something.
In a real shift
Gid's schedule manager is built for callouts and last-minute coverage. In the Shift Marketplace, a shift can be handed to a teammate, opened to the team, covered or picked up. The chat that already has the schedule and the tasks handles the conversation around it.
What you see
This week's shifts, the labor target, the team chat with today's tasks inside it, and a training session that takes about five minutes. Nothing lives in a tab you have to remember to open.
Why one app, not a stack
The schedule is linked to the tasks, tasks can be sent in the chat, the chat knows the shift, and training and onboarding sit in the same app, on iOS, Android and the web.
What you can count on
The moment you publish, it is live in every teammate's pocket: the same schedule, the same version, on iOS, Android or the web.
How it works
Three views, the same app, no export in between.
Step 1
Forecast, labor targets and confirmations in the same view. Publish it, and every teammate has it live in their pocket, never on a printed sheet.
Step 2
Team health, labor and the reviews waiting on you, in one glance, so you fix what matters first before it becomes a fire during service.
Step 3
A callout, a handoff, a task, sent straight into the conversation the team already has open. Nothing gets confirmed in a side channel nobody else can see.
Under the hood
The three moving parts of a real week, and how Gid keeps them in one place.
In the Shift Marketplace, a shift can be handed to a teammate, opened to the team, covered or picked up.
Shifts and tasks travel inside the team chat, so a handoff or a callout gets resolved in the conversation the team already has open, not in a separate inbox.
The moment you publish, it is the same schedule in every pocket: iOS, Android or the web. Nothing depends on the office computer.
A real shift
An example of one afternoon, from the callout to a covered dinner service.
The callout
A server who cannot make the dinner shift opens it in Gid and taps Find me a cover. Gid asks the trained crew first, then widens it to the whole team.
The pickup
A teammate picks it up in the Shift Marketplace, where an open shift cannot be picked up outside someone's saved availability, over their weekly hours, or over approved time off. The manager confirms whoever steps in.
Dinner service
Its open tasks move to whoever takes it, and the updated schedule is the same in every pocket, on iOS, Android or the web.
The stack you have today
Nothing here is a knock on any specific tool. It is what happens when the schedule, the tasks, the training, the chat, the documents and the guest reviews were never built to know about each other.
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Restaurant operations • Availability
Each person sets a usual week once, marks the days that change, and answers when you open a new period. The schedule is then built on what the team can actually work.
Why availability goes wrong
Most scheduling mistakes start before the schedule: an availability nobody wrote down, or wrote down in several places at once.
Texts
One person texts, another tells you at the pass, a third writes it on the sheet in the break room.
Stale
A server's classes changed in January. The schedule still thinks they are free on Tuesdays.
Deadlines
Half the team answers after the week is built, and the schedule is rebuilt twice.
Hours
One person wants thirty hours and gets fifteen, another wants twenty and gets forty. Both start looking elsewhere.
Time off
A day off asked for in March is forgotten by May, and someone is scheduled on the day of a wedding.
Cover
When someone calls out, the manager calls down the list without knowing who is actually free.
The availability form
Four blocks to copy into your own form, or to ask out loud at the next team meeting.
Usual week
Hours
Time off
Before each schedule
How Gid collects it
The same form, run in the app your team already has on its phone.
| What it needs | In Gid |
|---|---|
| A usual week, set once | Each person saves a usual week: every day Available, Off or Replacement only, with the hours they can work. |
| The hours each person wants | They set the hours and the days they want each week, ideal and maximum, and the manager is flagged when a week goes over the maximum. |
| Days off and exceptions | In Time off and exceptions, they pick the dates, mark them unavailable or available, and submit. |
| An answer before each schedule | When a manager opens a scheduling period, each person submits availability for it before its deadline, starting from their usual week. |
| Knowing who has not answered | The Availability Cockpit shows who has given availability for the period and who has not, and one tap reminds the team, at most once a day. |
| A manager's correction | A manager can override one person's availability for a day, with a note kept in the activity history. |
| A schedule that respects it | When you assign a shift, Smart assign leaves out people with the wrong role or who are not available that day. |
| Extra work for the right people | An open shift in the Shift Marketplace cannot be picked up outside someone's saved availability, over their weekly hours, or over approved time off. |
How it works in Gid
Three views, one app, nothing retyped from a sheet.
Step 1
The command center shows the next scheduling period, so availability is collected before the week is built, not after.
Step 2
Build the week with availability already behind it. Once it is published, each person confirms their own shifts on the phone.
Step 3
When someone calls out, open the shift in the schedule and start a discussion with the people it concerns.
A real period
An example of one scheduling period, from the first question to the published week.
Two weeks before
The manager opens the summer period with a deadline. Each person starts from their usual week and marks the days that change.
The deadline
The Availability Cockpit shows three people without an answer. One tap reminds the team, and two of them answer that evening.
The build
Smart assign suggests people with the right role who are available. A server who asked for fewer hours is not pushed over their maximum without the manager knowing.
The honest part
Not every restaurant needs an availability tool. Here is when yours does not.
About this page
Members of the Gid team owned and operated restaurants before building software. This page describes the schedule as it works in the app today. If your week needs something it misses, tell us at contact@gidai.ca.
One connected operations app for restaurant teams: scheduling, shift confirmations, tasks, team chat, continuous training, onboarding, performance evaluations and an AI assistant grounded in your own documents. One price per location, whole team included.
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Last updated October 25, 2026