Rota
Building the week, shifts, publishing, and seeing your own shifts.
How the rota works
The ideas behind the rota: weeks, drafts and published weeks, who can do what, and where each job is done.Web and iPhoneAdd a shift
Put someone on the rota from the web or the iPhone, and what Yes Chef does when the shift clashes with another shift or with time off.Web and iPhonePublish the rota
Send a finished week out to the team from the web or the iPhone, and send it again after you change it.Web and iPhoneEdit or remove a shift
Change who works a shift or when, move it, or take it off the rota, and what is different once the week is published or the shift has started.Web and iPhoneCopy a week of shifts
Fill a week from another week’s shifts on the web: last week, next week, or any two weeks, for every area or only some.WebSave and use a rota template
Keep a week that worked as a named template on the web, then put all or part of it onto any other week.WebSee your shifts
Find when you are working on your iPhone, open a shift to see where and what, and look at the rest of the team’s week.iPhoneSwap a shift with a colleague
Ask a colleague to take one of your shifts from your iPhone, and accept or decline when a colleague asks you.iPhoneApprove a shift swap
Approve or decline a swap two of your team have agreed, on the web, and see the swaps already decided.WebOffer out an open shift
Send a shift that needs cover to everyone who could work it, from the web, and let the first to accept take it.WebPick up an open shift
See the shifts your restaurant needs covered and take one from your iPhone. The first person to accept gets it.iPhoneSay when you can work
Set the days of the week you can work, prefer to work or cannot work on your iPhone, so whoever builds the rota sees it.iPhoneAdd a day note or mark a public holiday
Leave a note on a day of the rota, such as a big booking or a delivery, and flag a day as a public holiday, on the web.WebSee what the rota costs
Read the week’s hours, wage cost and labour percentage as you build the rota, set a sales target for each day, and know who can see these figures.Web and iPhoneUse Rota Insights
Compare hours, wages and sales with the plan for a day, a week or a month, and set budgets and sales targets.Web and iPhone