The same software, speaking four different trades.
Helm Shift ships four setups: restaurants, bars and pubs, cafes and bakeries, pizza shops. They are not four products and they are not a rename. What changes is the vocabulary, the role suggestions, the cost wording and the shift windows, which is exactly the set of things that makes software feel like it was built for someone else.
Generic software makes you translate.
Pick any general scheduling tool and you will spend the first week translating. Your Open shift becomes their Breakfast. Your pizzaiolo becomes their Line Cook. Your cocktail list gets a “food cost”. None of it is wrong, and all of it is friction, every single day, forever.
That friction is the reason software gets abandoned in week two. So we did the boring work instead: each setup arrives already speaking the trade’s own language, and you can change any of it afterwards.
Same three questions, four different answers.
Restaurants
Shifts: Morning, Lunch, Dinner, Closing.
Roles suggested: Server, Line Cook, Head Chef, Host, Dishwasher.
Menu costing: food cost on every plate.
Bars & pubs
Shifts: built around a late close, not a dinner service.
Roles suggested: Bartender, Barback, Door, Bar Manager.
Menu costing: recipe cost on every drink, because a cocktail is not food.
Cafes & bakeries
Shifts: Open, Mid-day, Afternoon, Close. Open starts at 6am; there is no dinner.
Roles suggested: Barista, Baker, Counter, Shift Lead.
Menu costing: recipe cost on every drink and pastry.
Pizza shops
Shifts: Prep, Lunch, Dinner rush, Close.
Roles suggested: Pizzaiolo, Driver, Prep Cook, Counter.
Menu costing: food cost on every pie.
One product, one price list, one login.
You choose it once, in about a second.
You pick your trade during setup and everything above is already in place when you land on the dashboard. If you are genuinely between two, pick the closer one; the shifts and roles are editable and nothing depends on the choice being permanent.
See it set up as your trade.
Free for 30 days, no card. We pick your setup together on a 30-minute call and import what you already have.