Scheduling, clock, tips, checklists. One app.

Everything an independent floor needs — nothing an enterprise HRIS bolts on.

A server checking their phone in a back hallway and claiming an open shift. — An open shift, claimed between tables.

AI drafts the schedule. You publish it.

The draft reads how busy you actually were — the same weekday over your trailing eight weeks of sales, plus the events already on the books — alongside your roster, your crew's availability, approved time off and last week's coverage. Every proposed shift is re-checked against that same ground truth before you see it. You see the projected labor and the model's reasoning, edit what you want, and publish. The app never publishes on its own. On a brand-new venue there is no sales history to read yet, and the draft says so rather than inventing a busy Friday.

Reads your own sales history and your booked events.
Built around who can actually work.
Projected labor and labor % before you publish.
Manager-in-the-loop — always.

SavorCrew — Schedule builder — drag-to-assign grid with the live labor-projection bar (operator dashboard). — Schedule builder — drag-to-assign grid with the live labor-projection bar (operator dashboard).

One-tap clock. Even with no signal.

Crew clock in with one tap. Geofence confirms they're at the venue; an optional photo deters buddy-punching. On a weak-signal patio, punches queue offline and reconcile when signal returns.

Geofence clock-in (100 m default).
Offline punch queue, reconciled on reconnect.
Break tracking with state-rule compliance flags.

SavorCrew — Clock — the one-tap geofence surface with the offline queue state (crew app). — Clock — the one-tap geofence surface with the offline queue state (crew app).

Both tip models. Every number shown.

Run pooled (tenure-tiered) or tip-share with role weights. The run previews participants, hours, weights, and each share before you commit. Every distribution writes an immutable audit you can defend.

Pooled and tip-share, side by side.
The sum reconciles to the total on screen.
Re-runs chain to the original — never overwrite.

SavorCrew — Tips — the distribution breakdown with the math shown line by line (crew app). — Tips — the distribution breakdown with the math shown line by line (crew app).

Training tells the crew how. Checklists show it happened.

Every restaurant trains. The gap is proof — knowing the walk-in got temped, the line got wiped, the prep got done, on the night nobody was watching. Build per-role checklists with temperature, quantity, photo or text items; the crew complete them on their phones with a photo of the finished work, and anything out of range routes to you before it becomes a problem.

Per-role, per-shift, with due times.
A photo of the completed work, required where it matters.
Out-of-range items flag for corrective action, not just a red mark.

SavorCrew — Typed checklist runner — ten input types with the corrective-action flow (operator dashboard). — Typed checklist runner — ten input types with the corrective-action flow (operator dashboard).

Temps, waste, orders — the shift's paper trail, off paper.

Temperature logs that escalate with a corrective action when a cooler drifts. A waste log that names the reasons and the dollars. Floor order requests — 'we're low on limes' becomes a tracked line the crew can see move from requested to received (and, with Heard Recipes in the family, a chef-review queue turns it into the order guide). And a mock health inspection that hands you a practice grade before the county visits.

Temp logs with corrective actions — caught on the shift, not at the walk-through.
Waste logged with reasons and dollar value.
Order requests: requested → ordered → received, visible on the floor.

SavorCrew — Daily ops — temp logs, waste, and order requests (operator dashboard). — Daily ops — temp logs, waste, and order requests (operator dashboard).

It replaces the group text.

Channels by venue, by role, or by whoever you pick — threaded, and visible to managers by default, so the thing that got said stays somewhere you can find it. Crew reply to shift notes in the same place they read them. Direct messages are off unless you turn them on. Most independents are running the floor out of a group text nobody can search and everybody has muted; this is the part of SavorCrew people open every day.

Channels by venue, by role, or ad-hoc.
Manager-visible by default — DMs opt-in per tenant.
Crew reply to shift notes where they read them.

SavorCrew — Channels — venue, front of house and back of house, with unread counts and the manager-read line (crew app). — Channels — venue, front of house and back of house, with unread counts and the manager-read line (crew app).

Write the training once. Watch it land.

Build a course as a series of stages: the material they read, then the questions that prove it stuck. Pick-one, yes/no, a typed answer or a number — each worth as many points as it deserves, with a pass mark you set. The next stage opens when the one before it is passed, and there is no limit on retakes: a cook who needs three goes at allergens should take three goes at allergens. Marking happens on the server, so the phone never holds the answer key. Change a question later and the people who already passed stay passed, against the version they actually sat. And because revising from a wall of text is how people stop revising, every lesson also flips into flash cards — derived from the lesson itself, so there is no second thing to write and no way for the cards to drift out of step with what the quiz asks.

Four question types, weighted, with a pass mark you choose.
Stages unlock in order — the gate is on the training, never on the schedule or the clock.
Flash-card mode on every lesson, generated from the lesson itself — nothing to author twice.
Lessons carry headings, callouts, emphasis and real bullets, not a wall of plain text.
Every attempt kept, with its score and its date — you can see somebody getting there.
Set a renewal and it comes back round on its own, with reminders before it lapses.
The question most people miss is usually a training problem, and the report says which one it is.

SavorCrew — Taking a stage on the phone — the material to read, then the questions, with the pass mark in the header (crew app). — Taking a stage on the phone — the material to read, then the questions, with the pass mark in the header (crew app).

The walk-in that keeps failing has a file now.

Every piece of equipment gets a record: what it is, when it was installed, whether it is still under warranty, and everything that has ever gone wrong with it. A QR sticker on the machine means anybody on the floor can report a fault in a few taps, and the report knows whether the warranty still covers it before you call anyone. Preventive maintenance runs on a cadence you set, so the hood clean and the coil clean stop being things somebody remembers.

QR fault reporting from the floor — no login hunt at 7pm.
Warranty state shown at the moment of the report, not after the invoice.
Preventive tasks by cadence, with the certificate photo attached.

SavorCrew — Reporting a fault from the QR sticker on the machine — and it already knows this unit was reported earlier in the week, so the second person to notice adds detail instead of a duplicate (crew app). — Reporting a fault from the QR sticker on the machine — and it already knows this unit was reported earlier in the week, so the second person to notice adds detail instead of a duplicate (crew app).

Fail the practice one instead.

Walk your own kitchen against the real thing — the Georgia code, or the FDA fallback where a state template does not exist yet. Every item carries its point weight and the regulation it comes from, and the ones that can close a room are marked critical while you are standing in front of them, not in the score afterwards. Finish and you get a grade, the deductions that made it, and a corrective action per finding with a due date.

Critical items marked during the walk — 20 of the 59 Georgia items are.
A score, and the deductions that produced it, item by item.
Corrective actions with owners and dates. Verification does not rewrite the original score.
Photo evidence on a failed item, required or optional — your call, per venue.

SavorCrew — Walking the practice inspection — each item with its points, its reference, and the critical mark (operator dashboard). — Walking the practice inspection — each item with its points, its reference, and the critical mark (operator dashboard).

The shift gets covered without you in the group text.

Crew post a swap or claim an open shift from their phone. The app checks the rules first — who holds the role, who is already over hours, who is on approved time off — so what reaches you is a decision, not an investigation. Time-off requests, swaps and open-shift claims land in one queue with the context attached, and approving one writes the schedule.

Swaps, claims and time off in a single approvals queue.
Rule-checked before it reaches you — role, hours, existing time off.
Approve from the floor on a phone, or from the dashboard.
Availability is the crew’s to set and yours to read, so the draft starts from the truth.

SavorCrew — A swap in transit — posted, picked up, and waiting on one approval (crew app). — A swap in transit — posted, picked up, and waiting on one approval (crew app).

Labor against sales, while the week can still change.

Labor percent against the target band you set, plotted against sales as the week runs — not reconstructed the Monday after. Overtime shows as hours at risk while there is still a shift to move. When the period closes, payroll export runs the aggregation and hands you the file in your provider’s format, with the punches and their correction history behind every number.

Labor % against your own target band, per venue, as the week runs.
Overtime shown as hours at risk while a shift can still be moved.
Punch review first: flags for outside-the-venue and missed breaks, with an append-only correction chain.
Payroll export in your provider’s format, signed off per period.

And the rest of the floor.

Swaps that route to you for approval.

Time-off requests with a clean queue.

Open shifts crew can claim.

Labor vs sales, the hero number.

State labor rules in a table, not hardcoded.

Payroll export to Gusto, ADP, or QuickBooks.

Scan the QR on a unit to file a fault — warranty status shown before you call anyone.

Maintenance runs by cadence, with a certificate photo where the rule needs one.

A borrow log for the crew you lend between venues. One tap to return them.

A crew score that shows its math — coverage, consistency, on-time. No leaderboards.

What it isn't.

SavorCrew is scheduling, clock, tips, checklists, and shift comms. Not an HRIS. We export payroll files — we never file your payroll taxes. No applicant tracking, no LMS, no performance reviews. That's how it stays $9.99.

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