Fourth’s suite of AI-powered tools gives you a complete restaurant scheduling software solution.
From granular demand forecasting, through labour modelling and shift generation, to auto-scheduling and skills matching, Fourth lets you generate schedules in seconds, not hours.
AI that truly delivers. Fourth’s best-in-class demand forecasting algorithm is trained on 20 years of Hospitality data and used by 100s of your peers every day.
- Revenue & item level forecasting
- Configurable demand categories (e.g. food, bar)
- Forecast up to 8 weeks ahead, with daily refreshes
- 15 or 30 minute time intervals
- Integrate demand drivers including holidays, events, weather, promotions, bookings and more.
- In-built performance dashboards
- Edit and upload forecasts
- Forecast approval workflows and audit trail
Our sophisticated labour productivity tools create a precise model of your labour needs – ensuring you always schedule the right people, in the right place at the right time.
- Visual Labour Demand Graph, showing deployment accuracy against forecast
- Custom Labour deployment rules based on revenue and activities
- Configurable rulesets define how many staff, in which roles, are needed per sales or activity level
- Minimum, fixed and variable staffing categories
- In built tracking costs, budgets & actuals
- Sales & Labour scenario planning
Fourth’s core scheduling solution has it all – from manually creating a basic rota to fully automated Auto-Scheduling. The breadth and depth of the feature-set is a class apart.
- Fully integrated with Fourth HR, Payroll and T&A
- Manual shift creation and management
- Auto-Scheduling – shift creation & assignment
- Publish and approval workflows
- Shift templates and set shift patterns
- Post open shifts & multi-site shift-pooling
- Integrated contractor & agency shifts
- View availability, holidays and preferences
- Labour budget vs cost tracking
- Compliance warning and constraints
- …and so much more!
Fourth’s time and attendance software captures data in real-time and automatically synchronises with your scheduling and payroll solution, driving accuracy and efficiency.
- Real-time tracking of hours worked across multiple sites
- Automated synchronisation with payroll and scheduling systems
- Tablet-ready clock-in app
- Offline functionality to ensure uninterrupted and accurate time and attendance capturing
- Shift sentiment tracking and reporting
- Sign-off workflows
Empowers employees to take control of their workload and reduces the admin burden on their managers, all from their phones.
- Dedicated app for mobile devices
- View assigned shifts and co-workers
- View co-workers on same shift
- Add and view comments on shifts
- Swap, drop and give shits
- Set unavailability time periods
- Claim Open shifts at primary and nearby locations
Fourth’s in-built analytics and reporting system provides visibility into deployment performance, labour productivity, and forecast accuracy. Interactive dashboards enable reporting across locations, brands, and operational areas, helping operators measure scheduling effectiveness and labour deployment.
- Deployment performance against sales, labour costs and demand
- Labour productivity reporting, including Sales per Labour Hour (SPLH) and items per labour hour (IPLH)
- AI and manager forecast sales accuracy analysis
- AI and manager forecast accuracy analysis against actual sales
- Budget vs actual labour percentage tracking over time
- Area, location and brand-level labour performance reporting
- Day-part analysis across sales, labour, costs and productivity
- Passive hours reporting highlights training, meetings and administration time spent
- Self-service dashboards with operational drill-down capabilities
