Schedule Your Restaurant Team Without Spreadsheets or 7shifts

The real cost of this problem

The typical independent restaurant stack has a scheduling tool ($30–$60/location/month), a chat tool ($5–$10/user/month), a separate PTO tracker, and a Google Sheet that ties them together. Each tool has its own login, its own permissions, its own data. The team manager spends 2–4 hours a week reconciling them.

Built-in scheduling means a schedule change updates the team's push notifications, the PTO calendar, and the shift trade availability automatically. No reconciliation. No "did everyone see the update?" group chat.

For multi-location operators, the math gets worse: every separate tool charges per-location. Three locations on three tools means triple bills and triple admin.

How Aedan Rose solves it

1. 1

   Publish the schedule from the operator dashboard

   Build the week's shifts visually, assign people, hit publish. Every assigned employee gets a push to the operator mobile app. No exporting a PDF and pasting it into a group chat.

2. 2

   Employees request time off, you approve in one tap

   Time-off requests come in with the days, the reason, and the team-coverage context. You approve or deny in one tap from the mobile app. Approved leave shows on the calendar and flows into the next schedule build.

3. 3

   Shift trades and coverage requests with manager veto

   An employee who needs to swap a shift posts a trade request inside the platform. Other eligible employees can claim it. A manager approves the swap if your policy requires it — built-in, no third-party app.

4. 4

   Team chat in the same platform

   Group channels and direct messages live inside Aedan Rose, so the team doesn't need WhatsApp, Slack, or a side group chat. Permissions enforce who can see what. Reactions, threads, pins, and mutes all supported.

What you get out of the box

• Schedule builder with shift publishing to the operator mobile app
• Time-off requests and approvals
• Blackout dates that block PTO during peak periods
• Shift trades and coverage requests, manager-approved
• Team chat — group channels + direct messages — with threads, reactions, pins
• Role-based permissions: Owner, Manager, Server, Host, Kitchen, Custom
• Per-restaurant data isolation — multi-location groups stay separated

Every capability above is shipped, in production, and used by operators today. See our pricing page for which plan tier unlocks which feature.

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