Specialty skills tracked on profiles
Shifters list their sushi experience, knife skills, and restaurant history. You see it before connecting.
Restaurants & Food Service
Your sushi chef can't just be replaced by any line cook. ShiftSee connects you with sushi-trained shifters in your city — so coverage works.
The moment that matters
Your itamae has a family emergency and won't be in for three days. The sushi bar is the core of your restaurant — most customers come to sit there. A generic line cook can't cover. You need someone with real sushi experience, and you need them by tomorrow evening.
ShiftSee is built for exactly this moment — and for every shift you run between now and the next one.
What you get
Shifters list their sushi experience, knife skills, and restaurant history. You see it before connecting.
Send direct shift requests to sushi-experienced shifters in your city. Negotiate rate and duration before confirming.
For coverage that spans multiple days or shifts, schedule the full block in one workflow.
Itamae with real experience command rates well above standard line cooks. ShiftSee makes those rates visible and negotiable.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sushi chef / Itamae | $24-35/hr | $26-42/hr | $25-45/hr |
| Sushi line cook | $20-28/hr | $22-32/hr | $21-32/hr |
| Server (with tips) | $22-38/hr | $25-45/hr | $22-45/hr |
| Host | $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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