How does TheCheckIn handle multiple shifts — morning and evening — for restaurant staff?

Each shift (AM, PM, split) is configured in the admin dashboard. Staff check in when they arrive and check out when they leave. The system records which shift they worked and calculates hours automatically. You can set expected shift times so late arrivals are flagged.

Can I track kitchen staff and front-of-house staff separately?

Yes. You can create separate departments or groups in TheCheckIn — for example, Kitchen, FOH (front of house), and Management. Attendance reports can be filtered by department, making it easy to see kitchen headcount separate from service staff.

What if a chef checks in for a colleague who hasn't arrived yet (proxy)?

Enable face recognition. Every check-in requires the staff member to look at their own phone camera — a liveness detection test (eye blink) confirms it's a real person, not a photo. Nobody can check in as someone else. The face match happens on-device in under 3 seconds.

We have two restaurant locations. Can I manage both from one account?

Yes. Each location is a separate branch in TheCheckIn with its own QR code. You manage all locations from one admin account and see attendance across both in a single dashboard.

Restaurants & Cafes

Restaurant Staff Attendance — Fast Shift Check-in for Kitchen & Front of House

Your morning chef starts at 7am. Your evening service team comes in at 4pm. You have part-timers on weekends and a paper register that nobody fills in properly. At the end of the month, payroll takes a full day to sort out.

TheCheckIn gives every shift a clean digital record. Staff check in with a QR scan or face recognition when they arrive — it takes 3 seconds. You see who's in for each shift from your phone, and timesheets are calculated automatically at the end of every pay period.

Try the App Free Ask on WhatsApp

Free up to 10 employees · QR + face check-in · AM/PM shift tracking

Today's shifts

Saturday · Full day

AM Shift · 7:00–15:00 All in ✓

Head Chef

07:02 ✓

Sous Chef

07:15 ✓

Cashier

07:05 ✓

PM Shift · 15:00–23:00 Starts 3pm

4 staff scheduled · Pending check-in

Timesheet auto-calculated at month end

How restaurant shift attendance works with TheCheckIn

No hardware. No paper. Every shift gets a clean digital record automatically.

Set up shifts and branches

Create your AM and PM shifts in the admin dashboard. Add each restaurant location as a branch. Takes 5 minutes and you don't touch it again unless your schedule changes.

Staff check in on arrival

When the chef arrives, they scan the kitchen QR code or check in with face recognition. 3 seconds. No app login every time — just scan and go. Latecomers are automatically flagged.

Manager sees headcount live

Before service starts you can check — is the full kitchen team in? Did the evening crew arrive? See it from your phone without calling anyone. Know if you're going to be short-staffed before service opens.

Pay period closes automatically

At the end of the month, total hours per staff member are calculated from check-in and check-out data. Export to Excel for payroll — or connect to ERPNext or Sage 300 for direct import.

What restaurant owners get from TheCheckIn

The paper register is gone — no one misses it

Paper registers get left blank during busy service, filled in retroactively, or just lost. A QR code on the wall doesn't get lost. Every scan is a permanent, timestamped record that nobody can alter.

No more proxy check-ins between kitchen and FOH

In a busy restaurant, it's easy for one staff member to mark another as present. Face recognition with liveness detection stops that completely — only the actual person can check in for themselves.

Late arrival alerts before service starts

You can see who hasn't checked in yet as the shift start time approaches. If a key staff member is running late, you know in time to call them or arrange cover — not 20 minutes after service should have opened.

Payroll disputes end when every hour is documented

When a part-time staff member says they worked 18 hours last week and your calculation says 14, TheCheckIn shows the exact check-in and check-out timestamps. No dispute — just the record.

Works for every type of food service business

Cafes & coffee shops

Morning crew tracking, barista shift handovers

Fast food & QSR chains

High-frequency shift changes, multiple locations

Fine dining restaurants

Split shifts, sommelier and kitchen staff combined

Cloud kitchens & delivery-only

Kitchen crew attendance without a dine-in front desk

Questions from restaurant owners & managers

Real questions from people replacing the paper register for the first time.

The QR code scan is as simple as it gets — one tap to open the camera, point at the QR, done. No login, no form, no typing. For kitchen staff who really won't use a phone, Employee QR Cards work too: a supervisor scans each person's card as they walk in. No app required on the worker's side.

Multiple check-in events per day are fully supported. A staff member working a split shift (e.g. 8am–12pm, then 5pm–10pm) checks in and out twice. Both sessions are recorded and the total hours for the day are combined in the timesheet.

Yes. Each shift configuration has its own start and end time. You can set the kitchen AM shift to start at 7:00 and the service AM shift to start at 10:00. Late arrivals are flagged relative to their own shift start time, not a single global time.

Add them as temporary employees in the admin dashboard — just a name and phone number. They register their face on the app and can check in immediately. You can remove or deactivate them after the event. No additional hardware, no extra device.