![Jeb V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jeb V.") JV Jeb V. General Manager Restaurants Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/13/2017 "Eliminate scheduling chaos and frustration. ." 5/5 What do you like best about 7shifts? Budgeting tools. Ease of building schedules. Drag and drop features. Easy to approve or deny requests, time off. I like the ability to block days off for requested time off. Scheduled made in a fraction of time as Excel. No longer walk into the restaurant with notes on employees calling out or had their schedule wrong. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about 7shifts? If I could import sales data from Micros easily I would like to see that for forecasting. Also break out projected sales into lunch and dinner shifts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering 7shifts: I knew it would help the staff, but I loved how much extra time I had and how many less headaches trying to cover shifts . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is 7shifts solving and how is that benefiting you? A few years ago I had a long term assistant manager leave for a new job 1 week before our summer season started. I quickly looked for ways I could organize my own time as I would be doing both jobs for a while. At the time scheduling was a chaotic mess of spread sheets and rough drafts on legal pads that we always getting lost. Requested time off by employees were on notes, in Facebook messages, texts to other employees, emails, or conversations you can;t remember. Setting up my staff of about 50 people was very easy with the help of the 7shifts team. We ran the 7shifts program side by side with our Excel schedule for one we and after that we were sold. We never went back to spreadsheets ever again. Requested time off, availability, and even partial time off are all handled in the app or online. My staff love the fact that they can see who is trying to get a shift covered and can bid on it in the shift pool. As a manager I can approve, deny or change everything from the app. Checking the daily lineup, approving a day off and swapping shifts can be done while standing in line at the grocery store. the staff loves the fact they have schedule as soon as its published. There are no longer any Friday or Saturday night calls to the hostess asking to check the schedule. I have been managing for 12 years in this restaurant and I can honestly say the best tool I ever bought that helped myself out was 7shifts. The headaches of dealing with not having enough staff because messages were relayed to the proper person are gone. I have more time for other tings. Literally hours more time each week. The budgeting tools help with year to year labor costs savings and this summer alone we have saved about 100 hours a week in overtime for my summer staff of 102 people by using 7shifts. My employees love this app and so do I. I honestly could not recommend it enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic See what 129 reviewers think of 7shifts 4.5 out of 5 ยท Verified reviews from real users [ Read all reviews ](https://www.g2.com/products/7shifts/reviews)