Staff scheduling for Canadian restaurants
The schedule knows the law where you are.
Build a week by dragging shifts onto a grid, and watch the labour cost as you go. Overtime, rest periods and statutory holidays follow the province or state your restaurant is actually in — sixty-six of them, in the product rather than in a setting you have to configure.
English and French. Canadian dollars. Built for the way a floor actually runs.
- 66
- jurisdictions with their own rules
- 702
- statutory holiday rules
- 2
- languages, from the first screen
A week, costed as you build it
Every shift you drop changes the number at the top. Overtime is worked out the way your jurisdiction works it out — daily thresholds, weekly thresholds, and the ones that do not stack — so the figure you are managing to is the figure payroll will produce.
A shift can end at close
A restaurant does not know when a Friday finishes. A shift can be scheduled until close, or until business slows down, and the team is told exactly that — while the manager keeps a private end time so the budget still means something.
Holidays arrive with a week's notice
Statutory holidays are stored as rules, not as a list that goes stale — the Monday on or before 24 May, the first Monday in September, Good Friday counted back from Easter. The week before one lands, the schedule says so, and tells you whether it is still empty.
Everyone sees their own week
Staff sign in to one screen: the shifts they are on, the hours they can work, time off, and a way to hand a shift to somebody else. Nothing else. Published weeks reach them by email, and soon by an app of their own.
Two branches, one roster
A second location brings its own jurisdiction, its own currency and its own week start. Somebody on both rosters stays one person.
The rules, in the open
This is the same reference data the product schedules against — overtime thresholds, rest periods, eating periods, minimum wage with the date it took effect, and the statutory holidays that apply. Every figure carries a source.
Not open to the public yet
ShiftNivo is being built in the open for restaurants in Canada. If you run a floor and want to try it — or you have found a figure here that is wrong — write to us.
hello@shiftnivo.com