Restaurant rota software that shows your wage percentage as you build it

Wage percentage, live, not on Monday morning

In hospitality, labour is either your first or second biggest cost, and the number that matters is wage as a percentage of sales. Crewo shows it as a live figure in the corner of the rota. Enter a forecast for the week, drop shifts onto the grid, and watch the percentage move. If a Tuesday lunch is overstaffed, you see it before you publish, not when you reconcile.

The wage bill itself is honest: gross pay plus employer National Insurance, pension contributions and holiday accrual. So the percentage on screen is the percentage the week will actually deliver, not a floor that hides a ceiling.

Split shifts, service periods, weekend cover

Hospitality does not work in nine-to-fives, so Crewo does not pretend it does. Split shifts are a native shift type, with a paid or unpaid gap in the middle. You can group shifts by service, colour by daypart, and see morning, midday and evening cover at a glance. When Friday evening looks thin, it looks thin on screen, so you fix it in seconds.

Weekend cover uses the same drag-and-drop as the rest of the week. Copy last Saturday, tweak the two staff who booked off, publish. Anyone who checks their phone from that second on sees the current version, so nobody turns up on the wrong day because they screenshotted last week's rota.

Tronc and tips, on the record

Tronc distribution with itemised records per staff member, works alongside your troncmaster and payroll. Crewo doesn't operate PAYE. The module takes the pot for a period and splits it across the team by hours worked, role weighting or a points system, whichever your venue uses. Every distribution is stored and exportable, and per-person totals drop straight into your payroll export.

This is the right home for tronc content on Crewo. The rest of the site keeps the product copy industry-agnostic, but if you serve food and drink, tronc is not an extra, it is part of the job.

Made for how UK hospitality actually runs

Minimum wage bands by age, unpaid breaks, paid breaks, standby, holiday accrual on variable hours, none of it is bolted on. The rota, the wage bill and the tronc all speak the same language, so payroll is a one-click export, not a rebuild.

If you want the underlying tools in plain form, see our rota software, wage bill software and minimum wage compliance pages.

FAQ

What is restaurant rota software?

Restaurant rota software replaces the printed grid and the spreadsheet with a live weekly schedule your whole team can see on their phone. Crewo is built for UK hospitality specifically, so split shifts, weekend cover, service periods and tips all sit in the same place as the rota itself.

Does Crewo show my labour cost as a percentage of sales?

Yes. As you drop shifts onto the week, Crewo shows your projected wage bill and, once you enter forecast or actual sales, the labour cost as a percentage of sales, live. You can see the number move as you add or remove a shift, so you never publish a rota and find out the cost on Monday.

Does Crewo handle tronc and tips distribution?

Tronc distribution with itemised records per staff member, works alongside your troncmaster and payroll. Crewo doesn't operate PAYE. The module takes the pot for a period and splits it across staff by hours worked, role weighting or points, and produces a per-person breakdown you can hand to payroll.

Can I roster split shifts and weekend cover easily?

Yes. Split shifts are a first-class shift type, not a workaround. Weekend cover uses the same drag and drop as weekdays, and the colour-coded grid makes gaps in Friday evening or Saturday lunch obvious before you publish.

Is there a free plan for a small restaurant?

Yes. The Starter plan is free forever for up to 10 staff at one site, with the rota builder, availability, holiday requests, shift swaps, live wage bill and tronc module. No card needed to start.