Sideworks is a platform for restaurant managers — not corporate auditors. Assistant managers, GMs, and shift leads get one home base for checklists, schedules, guest feedback, handoffs, and maintenance. Less juggling, fewer logins, more time leading the team. Because when the manager has the right system, everything downstream gets better.
Give a great manager the right system and it shows up in retention, consistency, and the guest experience. Give them fifteen disconnected tools and they spend the shift logging in instead of leading. The platform should make the manager's job easier — that's the whole bet.
Gallup found managers account for 70% of the variance in team engagement. Better tools build better managers build better teams.
A manager who can lead instead of firefight keeps more people — and each one kept is real money.
One home base beats a pile of apps, spreadsheets, and group chats. Less login fatigue, more leadership.
Assign checklists, verify with photo proof, and know the shift ran right — even on your day off.
Cover the week, control labor cost, and handle swaps and time-off without the back-and-forth.
Shift notes carry context to the next manager so nothing gets lost between shifts.
Guest and employee feedback surface problems early — in the dining room and in the team.
Performance tracking and goals help managers coach their people — and develop themselves.
Maintenance, work orders, expenses, and SOPs — the back office that usually eats a manager's morning.
Your managers are already great at hospitality. They just spend too much time juggling disconnected tools, chasing updates, and re-explaining the same processes. One unified home base helps them become the leaders you hired.
Consistent systems reduce the confusion and friction that push staff out the door.
New managers ramp faster because the system carries the playbook, not just the people.
One app for checklists, schedules, feedback, and maintenance means more face time with the team.
It is built for the people who run the shift — assistant managers, general managers, and shift leads at independent restaurants, food halls, hotels, bars, and cafés. It is not an enterprise compliance tool for corporate auditors; it is a daily home base for the manager on the floor.
It replaces the dozen tools and group chats a manager juggles with one app: checklists with photo proof, scheduling with labor cost, guest and employee feedback, shift handoffs, and maintenance. Fewer logins and less chasing means more time leading the team.
Yes. Beyond task tracking, Sideworks includes shift notes, performance tracking, and goal setting — tools that help managers develop their teams and themselves, not just check boxes for an auditor.
Yes. It is mobile-first and intuitive, so new managers ramp fast. Because the playbook lives in the system — checklists, SOPs, schedules — the knowledge carries over even when people change.
Yes. The free tier includes digital checklists and one location with no credit card. Paid plans add multi-location support, scheduling, surveys, and events.
Checklists, scheduling, feedback, handoffs, and maintenance — free to start, set up in minutes.