🍽️ Restaurants

Time Clock Software for Restaurants & Food Service

Split shifts, tipped employees, late callouts, and a payroll that has to be right every time. CKZ handles the front-of-house and back-of-house clock-in reality that generic software ignores.

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Common Restaurant Challenges

What every restaurant manager deals with weekly

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Split shifts & double shifts

Lunch and dinner rushes mean the same employee might clock out at 3 PM and back in at 5 PM. CKZ tracks multiple punches per day cleanly — no manual edits needed to calculate the total.

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Last-minute callouts

Someone calls out at 4:45 PM on a Friday night. You need to find cover immediately. The shift swap and open-shift workflow puts the request in front of available team members automatically.

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High staff turnover

New hire on Monday, off-boarded by end of month. Adding, onboarding, and deactivating employees needs to be fast. CKZ does this in under 2 minutes per person with no IT help required.

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Payroll every two weeks, all manual

Copying hours into your payroll system takes 1–2 hours every pay period. Direct export to Gusto, Square, QuickBooks, or ADP eliminates that — one download, done.

How CKZ Fits Restaurants

Feature by feature

Kiosk Clock-In

PIN clock-in at the host stand or break room. No phones required.

Set up a tablet by the employee entrance. FOH and BOH both use their PIN — servers, hosts, cooks, and dishwashers alike. No personal login, no app to download. The kiosk handles clock-in, clock-out, and breaks. Badge scanning supported for operations using employee ID cards.

PIN clock-in Break tracking Badge scan option Any tablet

Host Stand Kiosk — Dinner Rush

Sofia V. — Server

PIN: •••• 5:01 PM

Clocked In

Darius H. — BOH

PIN: •••• 5:03 PM

Clocked In

Mei T. — Host

On break since 4:45 PM

On Break

Shift Management

Publish the schedule. Handle callouts without a group text.

Build shift templates for lunch and dinner service, then publish the week. When someone can't make a shift, they submit a swap request — a coworker accepts it and you approve. The whole transaction is in the app. You're not in the middle of a group chat trying to coordinate.

Shift templates Shift swap requests Open shift posting Manager approval

Tonight's Lineup

5–10 PM Dinner Shift

3 servers · 2 BOH

Covered

Open: Saturday Brunch

10 AM–3 PM · 1 taker

1 Pending

Payroll Export

Hours calculated and exported — no spreadsheet required.

At the end of each pay period, lock it and export. Split shifts, overtime, and auto lunch deductions are already calculated. Export formats available for Gusto, Square Payroll, QuickBooks Payroll, Paychex, ADP, and more. Your payroll provider gets the right numbers without you touching a cell.

Export to Gusto / Square Overtime calculated Auto lunch deduction Pay period lock

Pay Period Export — Dec 1–14

Team total

8 employees · 14 days

Ready

Overtime hours

3.5 hrs across 2 employees

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Export format: Gusto CSV — ready to upload