A labor platform built around hospitality

Putting hospitality back into every shift.

Your operators weren't hired to operate software.
They were hired to operate restaurants.


Axial Shift is a labor solution built to pull operators out of the back office and onto the floor; where your business actually wins. We build and partner with best in class solutions to bring the work of running a restaurant into one place, so your operators spend less time on admin and more time leading the team, serving the guest and growing the business.

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A shift that runs well feels like this.
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Restaurants don't need more technology.

They need their technology to work better together.

The problem
Operators manage systems instead of restaurants.

Nine logins, nine passwords, nine places to check before anyone touches a table. The work of running the business got buried under the work of running the software.

The Axial View
Technology should disappear into the operation, not become the operation.

If your team has to think about the tool, the tool is in the way. Good software gets quiet and hands the shift back.

How we do it
Connect the tech stack you already run, or let us bring one

No required rip and replace. We partner with and build best in class solutions that make hospitality run.

The outcome
More time with teams and guests. Stronger execution. Better results.

Managers coaching instead of reconciling. Shifts that run the way they were planned. A P&L that moves because the floor did.

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This is the job. Everything else is overhead.
Pre-shift huddle with the team
Coaching the shift, not closing out reports.

A labor platform whose real output is operators on the floor.

Axial has every traditional labor tool you'd expect. What makes it a different purchase is the operations layer around them: we connect what you already run, decide what matters this shift, and put it in front of the person who can act on it, so the shift goes to hospitality instead of admin.

CONNECT

Toast, Simphony, Revel, Aloha, HotSchedules, R365, Dayforce, Crunchtime. No rip and replace.

MEASURE

Dashboards, reporting, KPIs: one number everyone reads the same way.

COACH

Messaging, competitions, forms: behavior moves where the shift happens.

OPERATE

Scheduling, time & attendance: the labor plan and the labor spend in one place.

PREDICT

Forecasting that writes back into the schedule, not a chart you read later.

Technology was supposed to buy your operators time. Instead it moved them into the office.

Every system you add takes another hour of operator attention, and that hour comes out of the dining room, the only place your brand actually gets built.

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Too expensive

Nine tools, nine contracts, nine renewal dates. The line item you can't see is the payroll spent operating them.

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Too disconnected

POS says one thing, scheduling says another, the P&L shows up three weeks later. Nobody trusts the number.

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Too far from the guest

Your best GM is in the office reconciling tabs instead of reading the room, touching tables and growing the brand. That's the real cost.

Why Axial

What makes Axial different.

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Built for operators, not administrators.
Axial was created by restaurateurs, for restaurateurs. 93% of team members use it as part of their daily routine, with leaders logging in 18 times a week and hourly staff 11 times a week.

What our customers say.

What changes when the admin work stops competing with the shift.

“With Axial Shift, we're not only improving the quality of information we give to our operations teams, we are reimagining ways to drive new value!”
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Brian Pearson, CTO
Mendocino Farms
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“Axial has been a strong partner for us. The core product has been gold, and since we brought it into Loro, we’ve seen real momentum with Contests and better engagement around the data. It’s user friendly, it works, and it’s had meaningful impact on our teams.”
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Eric Berman, VP of Ops
Hai Hospitality
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Get your operators out of the office.

Bring your stack. We'll show you how many operator hours it's costing you, and what happens when you spend them on hospitality instead.