Friends Coastal Restaurant is a really cool, fun Key West / New Orleans fusion joint in Madisonville, LA. They rebuilt a great place after Katrina - the building has been around since 1850. After using Excel for a couple of years to create their restaurant staff schedule, they realized there had to be a better way - and moved to Schedulefly.
Richard and I spend a quick 10 minutes talking about their old scheduling and communication process, their new process, what the managers think, what the staff thinks, and how "there is no way to communicate with the entire staff easily without Schedulefly."
Wow! Wes just knocked it out of the park with our new job posts tool. You simply won't find an easier way to post a restaurant job, as well as manage the incoming resumes, share comments with fellow managers, etc. Enough commentary. Just watch this....
An article in the Feb/Mar 2010 issue of BC Restaurant News talks about how Linkedin, Facebook and Schedulefly are using their social applications to help restaurants find, manage and communicate with their staff. We are thrilled to be included in such great company!
"...Schedulefly may just be the tool that gets rid of your staffing headaches once and for all. It makes staffing your restaurant easy and efficient, and engages everyone in your business."
Check out the one page article below.
You can also find the BC Restaurant News article online - page 13.
One thing we've learned is that people care a lot more about what our users say about Schedulefly than what we say about it. In fact, we're very focused on letting our users do as much talking as possible for us - they are the true "Faces of Schedulefly." After all, who cares what we think? We're admittedly biased. And we're passionate about what we do, which is cool, but our passion is not nearly as contagious as the passion oozing from the people that use Schedulefly in their restaurants every day.
So instead of a filling up our web site with a bunch of content we've written about us, we prefer to share stories from our users. Which led us to buy a cool Flip video cam, which we send around to customers. We don't tell them what to say. Not even a hint. We simply ask them to say what they think about Schedulefly. And we have over 40 quick clips now, with many more on the way. Here's a fun "movie" I made, with quick snippets from a bunch of different clips...
And here's a cool display of all of the videos we have to date - they're all short and sweet, so check a few out....
The Schedulefly Flip cam is traveling all over the U.S. and Canada, coming home every time with more fun, cool user videos. Stay tuned for more....
About a year ago, a lot of our quick service and fast casual restaurant customers were asking for a bar graph view of their staff schedules. They wanted an easy way to see of they had any gaps in coverage. We thought a simple graph view would be useful to most or all of our restaurant customers. So we did it. Since you can color code your shifts, the graph is very easy to view.
We've had it for a year now - I'm not sure all of our customers have checked it out yet. So here you go....
This is a cool testimonial from Scott Young at The Palm - Tribeca in NYC:
"Schedulefly has taken scheduling & communicating with our staff to another level. Rather than using an Excel spreadsheet and "saving as" I can copy the previous week's schedule and rotate my stations in a matter of minutes. I also find it very easy to look at a schedule and see who is available to work an extra shift or who not to schedule. Controlling labor costs with Schedulefly is easier than any other program out there. Schedulefly also has allowed us to communicate important training documents, pictures of new menu items and wines to our staff. Trading shifts amongst restaurant employees has always been a tricky thing. Did both employees sign off on it? Did a manager sign off on it? With Schedulefly it's all done online and in real time."
Also, check out all of the documents that Scott and his team conveniently have available to view from anywhere, any time, online. There are actually more than 30 documents, so one screen shot only shows about 1/3 of their list! None of these documents ever has to be printed and provided to all employees. No waste. No mess. No staff meeting just to hand out a bunch of paper. Each document takes just one click to upload and to alert all employees to view it.
Eric Harris is the GM of The Pit in Raleigh, N.C. He's got over 100 restaurant staff members to help serve up the masses who come to taste mouth watering barbecue cooked up by Ed Mitchell. With so many employees, it used to be impossible to communicate important information with all of them at one time.
But that immediately changed when he started using Schedulefly's easy restaurant employee scheduling & communication app. Now he can type one sentence and send it out to everybody as an email, a text, and a Message Wall post - with a single click. But don't take it from us - here's what he has to say:
