Every tool records the shift.PreShifter® runs it.
Pre-shift briefs, live menu intelligence, and team comms: one real-time app your staff actually opens. Built on the floor of NYC restaurants, not in a boardroom.
A $1.5 trillion industry runs its most critical hour on a whiteboard.
Every operator knows the pre-shift decides the night. Yet in most rooms it still lives on printouts that are wrong before the ink dries, in group chats buried by 6 PM, and in a huddle half the team missed. That's not a people problem. It's a missing system. And it bills you nightly.
Where the night leaks
Outdated the second it prints
The binder, the printout, the whiteboard: static tools narrating a live event. The menu changed at 4:50. Nobody told the paper.
Buried under everything else
Specials, 86s, allergens, and VIPs scattered across texts, Slack, email, and verbals. Five channels. Zero source of truth.
Repeated until it isn't
Managers spend hours every week re-saying the same brief, one person at a time: hours that should go to the floor, the guest, the team.
YOUR NUMBERS VARY. THE LEAK DOESN'T.
One brief. Every pocket. Zero ambiguity.
PreShifter is the connective layer your stack was missing. It sits above your POS, scheduling, and reservations, and turns everything your systems know into a live, shared picture of tonight, in every team member's hand.
Built around the moments restaurants lose the most.
Three pillars, one platform, covering the full lifecycle of a shift.
Tonight's plan, published in minutes, not meetings.
Specials, 86s, counts, sidework, VIPs. Build it from anywhere, hit publish, and every phone updates instantly. It's a living document: when the night changes, so does the brief.
Every dish, deconstructed. Two taps away.
Allergens, ingredients, builds, pairings, upsell prompts: always current, never guessed. Retire the binder. Train new hires in days, not weeks.
One thread. Zero noise.
FOH, BOH, bar, and management: finally speaking the same language, with push alerts for what can't wait.
86 it once. Everyone knows.
Flip a switch in the kitchen. The whole floor knows in seconds. No yelling down the line. No table 14.
SmartShift: briefs that draft themselves.
Every shift you run builds your restaurant's operating memory. SmartShift turns it into auto-drafted briefs and per-person focus cards. The data moat starts with tonight.
What changes by week one.
Five minutes to set up. One shift to feel it.
No onboarding calls. No hardware. No IT ticket.
Set up your room
Download PreShifter, name your restaurant, and load tonight's menu. About 5 minutes.
Drop one team code
Staff join free with a single access code: FOH, BOH, bar, management. No seats to buy.
Publish your first brief
Every phone lights up. Lineup runs itself. You feel it on the first service.
It's the first app my team actually uses without being told to. Everything just runs like clockwork now.
One subscription runs the whole house.
Admins subscribe. Everyone else rides free: every server, cook, barback, and host. Sized to your team, not your check average.
Questions operators ask.
No — and that's the point. Toast, 7shifts, and Resy record and plan the business. PreShifter runs the shift itself: the live layer between the schedule being set and the books being closed. It sits on top of your stack, it doesn't fight it.
Yes. Only admins and managers need a subscription. Every team member joins free with your access code and gets the brief, the menu, and team chat at no cost, so adoption never hits a paywall.
It makes the huddle better. Run lineup off a live document instead of a printout, and everyone keeps a reference they can check at 9 PM when memory fails. Skip the huddle on slow days and publish remotely; either way, nothing gets lost in the air.
About five minutes. Create your restaurant, load your menu, share one code with the team. There's no training manual because your staff already knows how to use an app. That's the whole design philosophy.
iOS and Android: both built natively for the phones already in your team's pockets. A web companion is on the roadmap. Mixed-platform crew? You're covered from day one.
Your move, chefRun tonight's shift on PreShifter®.
Five minutes to set up. One service to feel the difference. Fourteen days to prove it — free.
Field notes on running a tighter shift: one email a week, no fluff.
