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Restaurant Profile
Set it once. Gravity Assist can carry the restaurant and location into supported workspaces.

Store / location # is optional for a single-location restaurant. Multi-location companies can use it so printed forms, SOPs, schedules, and records identify the correct operation. Profile information is stored in this browser only.

Restaurant scheduling & labor workspace

Gravity Shift Lab

Build the schedule and availability calendar as one workspace. Carry employee profiles, requests, qualifications and privacy settings forward; control opening and closing labor, OFF/OPEN/CLOSE entries, overtime, labor %, coverage, schedule revisions and employee-safe QR publishing.

Open the Lab◷ Time • Coverage • Labor
Shift Lab boundary: this is the weekly scheduling workspace. It does not replace payroll, timekeeping, legal scheduling requirements, or Gravity Aware. It helps the manager build and inspect the planned schedule before posting it.
Weekly control board

Employee Schedule

DraftNot published
Add employees to begin.
EmployeeRoleHome SectionWageSunMonTueWedThuFriSatTotal

Coverage by Section / Station

Designed to grow later

Shift Lab builds the schedule. Gravity Aware can eventually watch the patterns.

Keep the basic scheduling workflow useful on its own. Later, Gravity Aware can add historical performance, repeated overuse, coverage behavior and other intelligence without turning the schedule builder into a complicated monitoring system.

Continue in another workspace

Choose where to continue with this work. Review the transferred details in the receiving tool.

The receiving workspace shows what arrived before you use it.

Windows Beta · x64

Gravity Shift Lab for Windows

Download the complete desktop program. Extract the ZIP, then double-click the clearly named INSTALL file. No build tools or administrator password should normally be required.

Download Windows Beta (152 MB)

October 19, 2026 · Optional Windows Preview

Download preview installer (.exe)   Portable ZIP

Optional preview, not an automatic upgrade. The installer is unsigned. Saved data from older Windows editions may not migrate. Keep the existing installation and export backups before testing. Check printing, scanning, and other hardware features on your own computer before live use.

Current Windows preview manual · October 2026Download PDF manual · Editable Word · Read online

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Before you start

Beta software: back up your restaurant data before use. Working data stays on this Windows computer. Gravity Guide requires internet access. Registration is required for this download; Founding Year access is $0 through October 1, 2027.

Manager privacy

Manager Pay Lock

Set a manager password/PIN. The scheduler will still see accurate labor %, hours, overtime warnings and coverage while wage fields stay hidden.

Protected manager settings

Labor Basis & Contact Privacy

Hidden does not mean ignored. These settings continue driving labor calculations when Shift Lab is locked for a delegated scheduler.
Added only when management labor is set to Include. Use the weekly amount your restaurant wants represented in scheduled labor.

Management employees are identified by a Home Section of Management. Phone numbers are never included in employee-facing schedules, QR links or downloads.

Call-off & replacement help

Find Coverage

Choose the day, shift and section. Shift Lab searches qualified employees, checks their availability and time-off rules, ignores anyone already scheduled that day, and flags overtime/custom-hour risks. Pay rates remain private.

Employee schedule publishing

Publish Employee Schedule + QR

The QR contains an employee-safe snapshot of the published schedule: names, roles, scheduled times and sections only. It never contains pay rates, labor dollars, phone numbers or manager-only notes. Because the snapshot travels in the QR link itself, employees can open it from another phone without logging in.

For a two-week QR, save the next week first. Very large two-week schedules may need to be published as separate weekly QR codes to remain dependable when scanning.

Generate the employee schedule to preview the QR.

Schedule accountability

Schedule Change Log

Shift Lab records saves and published revisions for this week. It is a local device history, not employee timekeeping or payroll history.

Employee scheduling rules

Employee

Contact & scheduling safeguards

Manager-controlled privacy setting decides whether delegated schedulers can see this number.

Safeguards are restaurant-configured controls. Shift Lab does not determine local labor-law requirements; managers remain responsible for applicable rules.

Normal availability repeats every week. Leave blank for any time; use Off for unavailable, or a range such as 4p-close. A recurring day-off request is a standing preference. Date-specific requests automatically stop affecting later schedules after their date passes, but remain in history.

DayNormal availabilityRecurring request

Add a date-specific request off

Availability Calendar

Time-Off & Availability Calendar

Easy method — works on phone or computer: tap an employee, tap the date, choose what applies, choose One Time or Repeat, then save. Desktop shortcut: drag an employee name directly onto the date.

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Restaurant coverage map

Sections / Stations

Enter the work areas you schedule separately, one per line. These carry forward every week. Employees can have a home section plus additional qualified sections, and any individual shift can be assigned to a different qualified section.

Common examples: Management, Dish Pit, Prep, Cook Line, Pizza, Salad, Expo, Servers, Hosts, Bar.

Opening and closing labor rules

Posted Open / Close + Setup / Closing Work

Shift Lab understands restaurant schedule language. OFF is a valid zero-hour entry. OPEN-4p uses the posted opening time minus the before-open setup allowance. 5p-CLOSE uses the posted closing time plus the after-close work allowance. Standalone OPEN or CLOSE is kept as an assignment marker but is intentionally excluded from labor totals until a second time is added.

DayPosted openBefore-open setupPosted closeAfter-close work

Need to create or revise a procedure? Open SOP Foundry.

Published employee schedule

Employee Schedule

This view contains employee-facing schedule information only. For changes, contact your restaurant manager or scheduling lead.