Schedule your regular crew
Build the weekly schedule with the cooks, servers, and dish staff you already trust. Visual calendar, role-based shifts, rate-per-shift control.
Restaurants & Food Service
Your kitchen, your front-of-house, your weekend crew — all connected. When someone cancels at 5 PM on a Saturday, the shift gets filled before the dinner rush starts.
The moment that matters
It's 5:47 PM. Your Saturday sous just texted that he's throwing up. Tickets start flying in 73 minutes. Your prep guy can cover the line but then who's on prep? You start the group text. Three don't respond. One is hungover. You end up running short, pushing ticket times past 40 minutes, and Table 8 walks before their entrees come out.
ShiftSee is built for exactly this moment — and for every shift you run between now and the next one.
What you get
Build the weekly schedule with the cooks, servers, and dish staff you already trust. Visual calendar, role-based shifts, rate-per-shift control.
One tap sends the missing shift to every qualified connected shifter. First to claim wins. Most restaurant emergency shifts get filled in under 20 minutes.
Senior cooks can counter-offer on shift time or rate. You get better coverage; they get the agency they deserve.
Every shift creates a CSV-ready line for your accountant. Gross, platform fee, net, Stripe fee — all exportable.
Typical roles and rates
Typical shifter rates by role and region. Rates are always negotiable on ShiftSee — the numbers below are where most shifts land.
| Role | Vancouver Island | BC Metro | Los Angeles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Line cook | $19-28/hr | $21-32/hr | $20-32/hr |
| Prep cook | $18-24/hr | $19-27/hr | $17-25/hr |
| Sous chef | $22-34/hr | $24-40/hr | $24-42/hr |
| Server (take-home with tips) | $22-38/hr | $25-45/hr | $22-45/hr |
| Dishwasher | $17.85-21/hr | $18-23/hr | $17-21/hr |
| Host / Hostess | $17.85-22/hr | $18-24/hr | $17-22/hr |
Why ShiftSee works here
Most of your shift work isn't new work. It's the same work, done again. The same weekend crew. The same specialty staff for peak events. The same closers on a Friday night. ShiftSee is built for that reality — every connection you make gets stronger the more you use it, and every shifter's rating and reliability follows them across every business they work with. After six months, you've built a trusted private crew that compounds in value month over month.
Getting started
(free). 2 minutes.
Everyone you'd text first when a shift opens up. They sign up, connect to you, and they're ready.
Schedule one. Broadcast one. Whatever hurts most.
Pat Rousseau, our co-founder, personally onboards every new business in the first 60 days. He'll walk you through setup, answer questions, and stay available by text during your first week live.
No subscription. No setup fees. You only pay when a shift happens. If ShiftSee saves you a single bad-day disaster, it's paid for itself several times over.
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