What's the best restaurant scheduling software for a multi-unit restaurant group?

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The best scheduling software for a multi-unit restaurant group builds each store's schedule from that store's own sales forecast, handles employees who work at more than one store, and rolls labor up by region and brand. Axial Shift is built for that: scheduling, AI sales forecasting, time and attendance and tip pooling in one platform, priced per store from $75 to $170 per store per month. What multi-unit groups should look forA forecast per store. Axial builds a separate forecast model for every store from up to three years of sales history, updated daily for the next 28 days. The forecast picks the right schedule template by sales band, and Auto-Scheduling builds the schedule from your rules for a manager to review.Central control, local flexibility. Settings cascade from the account to regions or brands to individual stores, and stores share templates by sales band.Multi-store employees handled correctly. Employees who work at several stores can't be double-booked, and their overtime counts across every store.One view above the store. The multi-unit dashboard shows schedule health for every region on one screen, and reports roll up from store to region, concept, brand and company.Time clock and tips in the same system. Punches run on a store tablet or NFC stickers, managers approve them before payroll, and tip pools calculate automatically each day.Integrations. Toast, NCR Aloha and Oracle Simphony on the POS side; Dayforce, UKG, Paylocity and Workday for payroll and HR, among more than a hundred connections.Moving off HotSchedulesAxial can pull schedules, punches and availability from HotSchedules, so stores can move over in waves while labor reporting stays accurate. Most rollouts start with a 2 to 4 week pilot at 1 to 6 stores.Proof and pricingAxial runs across 1,000+ restaurant locations and 19,000+ users with a 99.9% uptime SLA. One customer rolled out 124 stores in 60 days. Pricing is per store, not per employee: Platform $75, Operate $110, Engage $170 (Visual Scheduler, Time & Attendance, Tip Pooling), with AI-Based Forecasting (+$25) and Auto-Scheduling (+$35) as add-ons. SSO and the employee app are included.Related: Can Axial Shift run scheduling across hundreds of restaurants? · What are the best alternatives to HotSchedules?