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Restaurant template

The weekend-heavy restaurant week.

Friday and Saturday dinner carry the month, so they get double front-of-house and a second cook. Monday and Tuesday run lean. Copy the grid, download the CSV, or let the AI draft it against your real roster.

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The template

One week, at a glance.

Pattern
Fixed weekly, demand-weighted
Coverage
Mon-Sun, 10:00-23:30
Fits
10-16 staff, 1 location
People in the grid
10
Scheduled hours / week
294.5h
Positions
Server, Cook, Bartender, Host
Weekend-heavy restaurant schedule — weekly shift grid, one row per staffing slot.
SlotMonTueWedThuFriSatSunShift
Server AMServer10:30–16:30×210:30–16:30×210:30–16:30×210:30–16:30×210:30–16:30×2OffOff6h
Server PMServerOffOff16:30–23:00×216:30–23:00×216:30–23:00×216:30–23:00×216:30–23:00×26.5h
Server WeekendServerOffOffOffOffOff11:00–17:00×211:00–17:00×26h
Cook10:00–22:0010:00–22:0010:00–22:0010:00–22:0010:00–22:0010:00–22:0010:00–22:0012h
Cook PeakCookOffOffOffOff16:00–23:3016:00–23:30Off7.5h
BartenderOffOffOff16:00–23:3016:00–23:3016:00–23:3016:00–23:307.5h
HostOffOffOffOff17:00–22:3017:00–22:3017:00–22:305.5h

One row per staffing slot; ×N means that many people on that block. Times are local to the location. +1 marks a shift that ends the following calendar day.

Use this pattern when…

  • Your Friday/Saturday dinner covers 40-50% of weekly revenue and Monday is nearly dead.
  • You have enough part-time staff to flex headcount by day instead of running flat coverage.
  • You want a baseline to argue with — most managers keep 80% of this and change the mid-week lunch.

What to watch out for

  • Closing Saturday at 23:30 and opening Sunday at 10:00 is a 10.5-hour turnaround — legal in most places, but the same person doing both weekends in a row burns out. Rotate the close.
  • The second Saturday cook is the first thing managers cut and the first thing they regret. Cut a server before cutting the kitchen.
  • Weekend-heavy scheduling concentrates tips. If your house splits pooled tips, the same rotation month after month becomes a fairness complaint.

From CSV to a live schedule

Three steps, no data entry.

The download is not a PDF you print and pin up. Its columns are the ones Weekwright's schedule importer reads, so the file you edit in Excel is the file you upload.

  1. 1

    Swap in your team

    Replace the placeholder names in the Employee column with your staff. Leave Day, Start, End, and Position alone — those are what the importer maps.

  2. 2

    Upload it

    Drag the file onto the schedule page. Every row is previewed with its detected columns before anything is created, so a bad cell is a warning, not a surprise.

  3. 3

    Tell the AI what changed

    “Maya is off Thursday, cover it”. The agent repairs the week against your real availability, skills, and compliance rules instead of you re-editing the grid.

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Common questions

Weekend-heavy restaurant schedule FAQ.

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