Make labor your biggest lever.

Restaurant workforce management software covers how you find, schedule, manage and pay the people running your restaurant: onboarding, scheduling, time cards, PTO and absence, team communication, and the handoff to payroll. The best of it connects to your sales data so the schedule matches actual demand, and shows you labor cost as it happens rather than weeks after the month closes. Some operators search for this as restaurant staff management software — it’s the same category.

The Scheduling Assistant uses your sales forecast, your configured labor targets and your team's availability to recommend how many people you need, when, and for which positions. GMs review and adjust, they don't build from scratch. The intensity setting lets your ops team control how lean or generous the model runs per site, so each location can be set to its own labor strategy without re-training every GM.

Yes. Most Nory customers see labor cost reduce by 10-25% in the first weeks, depending on starting point and how disciplined the team is on the schedule. Passyunk Avenue cut labor cost by 26% across locations. Josie's cut it by 23% in four months. Barge East by 10%. The pattern: set labor targets per site, let the Scheduling Assistant build to them, and watch the planned vs actual gap close week by week.

7shifts, Deputy and Planday are scheduling-first tools. They digitize the schedule and let you report on labor cost after the fact. Nory's scheduling is driven by demand forecast, so the schedule matches what you'll actually sell. Labor cost is live, not lagging. Standalone workforce tools only see one side of prime cost. Nory sees both (labor and food) in one system.

Yes. Employees onboard via the team app (digital documents, contracts, personal information), see their shifts and PTO balance, request time off, swap shifts, and receive feedback. Managers approve time cards, manage absence and shift changes from their phone. A separate AI HR Assistant (currently in beta) can answer employee questions from your uploaded policies.

Nory tracks the rules you configure: overtime premiums, break rules, working time regulations, PTO accruals. When a schedule breaks one of those rules, Nory flags it before publish. To be clear: you set the rules, Nory enforces them. Nory does not independently verify that your configured rules meet your jurisdiction's law. That's the operator's call (or your legal team's), with our settings as the enforcement layer. Automated compliance verification is on the roadmap for later in 2026.

The bulk of the setup is in your labor configuration: positions, pay rates, overtime rules, break rules, PTO accrual methods, labor targets per site. Once that's done, scheduling, time cards, absence and tips all run on it. Day-to-day work (schedule build, clock-in, approving time cards, requesting time off) is designed to be mobile-first and fast.