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7shifts is the company blog at 7shifts.com, writing about business and startups. Since 2013, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Tipping: How Gratuity Replaced Fair Wages in U.S. Restaurants”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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26mentions?
13HN people?
2013–2025first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments cite 7shifts blog posts as sources for restaurant cost figures, tip-pooling law, COVID-19 effects on restaurants and foods that travel well for delivery. Other comments mention the company's hiring posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Restaurant Scheduling, Payroll, and Retention tools in one app. Make team communication, tip management, and labor compliance easy.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/restaurant-costs/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-07-18
- /careers2 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2017-09-01
- Tipping: How Gratuity Replaced Fair Wages in U.S. Restaurants2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-26
What Hacker News says?
7shifts | Software Developers | Full-time | Onsite in Toronto & Saskatoon, Canada We're a restaurant scheduling platform working on scheduling, performance, and communication for restaurants. We just closed a $4.5m CAD funding round that we're using to fuel our growth and tech expansion into integration work with our Point of Sale partners. We're doing some interesting stuff with behaviour and receipt data to help r…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)”Submitted Tipping: How Gratuity Replaced Fair Wages in U.S. Restaurants as a story · 90 points
HN discussion7shifts also posted yesterday about the effects they're seeing from COVID-19. Their Seattle customers were hit extremely hard https://www.7shifts.com/blog/covid-19-for-restaurants/
Comment linking /blog/covid-19-for-restaurants/
on “The state of the restaurant industry”Submitted Why we stopped focusing on 66% of our customers as a story · 36 points
HN discussion7shifts | Fullstack Developers, Eng. Managers, Developer In Test | Toronto, ON & Saskatoon, SK | Full-time We're looking to expand our Engineering and Product operations in Toronto and our Saskatoon HQ. We offer competitive salaries for both markets, and relocation packages (including visa/immigration support). Reach me directly if you have questions johannes at 7shifts com. https://www.7shifts.com/careers 7shifts i…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)”Submitted How we built the wrong feature as a story · 31 points
HN discussion7shifts | Canada | Remote | Full-time | https://www.7shifts.com/careers At 7shifts, we’re building a team and product that will help change the restaurant industry for the better, one shift at a time. Our product simplifies labor management and improves performance for restaurants, freeing up time for managers to focus on serving their customers. 7shifts focuses 100% on the restaurant industry and works with best-in…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)”Submitted Making and measuring video testimonials for your startup with Wistia, Mixpanel as a story · 9 points
HN discussion7shifts | Canada | Remote | Full-time | https://www.7shifts.com/careers At 7shifts, we're building a team and product that will help change the restaurant industry for the better, one shift at a time. Our product simplifies labor management and improves performance for restaurants, freeing up time for managers to focus on serving their customers. 7shifts focuses 100% on the restaurant industry and works with best-in…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)”Submitted Better time drop downs for ranges: jQuery Time Autocomplete as a story · 3 points
HN discussion7shifts | Canada | Remote | Full-time | https://www.7shifts.com/careers At 7shifts, we're building a team and product that will help change the restaurant industry for the better, one shift at a time. Our product simplifies labor management and improves performance for restaurants, freeing up time for managers to focus on serving their customers. 7shifts focuses 100% on the restaurant industry and works with best-in…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)”7shifts | Canada | Remote | Full-time | https://www.7shifts.com/careers At 7shifts, we're building a team and product that will help change the restaurant industry for the better, one shift at a time. Our product simplifies labor management and improves performance for restaurants, freeing up time for managers to focus on serving their customers. 7shifts focuses 100% on the restaurant industry and works with best-in…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)”7shifts | Canada | Remote | Full-time | https://www.7shifts.com/careers At 7shifts, we're building a team and product that will help change the restaurant industry for the better, one shift at a time. Our product simplifies labor management and improves performance for restaurants, freeing up time for managers to focus on serving their customers. 7shifts focuses 100% on the restaurant industry and works with best-in…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)”7shifts | Canada | Remote | Full-time | https://www.7shifts.com/careers At 7shifts, we're building a team and product that will help change the restaurant industry for the better, one shift at a time. Our product simplifies labor management and improves performance for restaurants, freeing up time for managers to focus on serving their customers. 7shifts focuses 100% on the restaurant industry and works with best-in…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)”7shifts | Canada | Remote | Full-time | https://www.7shifts.com/careers At 7shifts, we're building a team and product that will help change the restaurant industry for the better, one shift at a time. Our product simplifies team management and improves performance for restaurants, freeing up time for managers to focus on serving their customers. 7shifts focuses 100% on the restaurant industry and works with best-in-…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)”7shifts | Canada | Remote | Full-time | https://www.7shifts.com/careers At 7shifts, we're building a team and product that will help change the restaurant industry for the better, one shift at a time. Our product simplifies labor management and improves performance for restaurants, freeing up time for managers to focus on serving their customers. 7shifts focuses 100% on the restaurant industry and works with best-in…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)”> A lot of people helped you get your meal, but your dishwasher is definitely not tipped. AIUI, front-end servers are supposed to kick some money into a pool for back-end staff. > Tip out is the restaurant practice where servers or bartenders share a portion of their collected tips with other staff members who contribute to the dining experience. This can include bussers, food runners, and sometimes even kitchen sta…
Comment linking /blog/restaurant-tipping-out-guide/
on “A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant (2017)”I think it's a spectrum: some foods deliver better than others. Not all cuisines are equal, so there's no one-size-fits-all business model. Here's a rough list of foods that travel well. https://www.7shifts.com/blog/food-that-travels-well-for-deli... Pizza travels exceedingly well over larger distances. Most types of non-soupy Chinese dishes also deliver well. There are proven delivery business models for pizza and…
Comment linking /blog/food-that-travels-well-for-delivery/
on “DoorDash from Application to IPO”7shifts | Canada | Remote | Full-time | https://www.7shifts.com/careers At 7shifts, we're building a team and product that will help change the restaurant industry for the better, one shift at a time. Our product simplifies labor management and improves performance for restaurants, freeing up time for managers to focus on serving their customers. 7shifts focuses 100% on the restaurant industry and works with best-in…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)”Every time I see a discussion about minimum wage I see at least three things: 1- You can immediately tell who has experience running a non-trivial business. Let's define that as a business that actually makes physical products (not private labeling something someone else makes) and has, say, more than ten employees. People who are not exposed to business mathematics say things that cause any business owner to immedi…
Comment linking /blog/restaurant-labor-cost/
on “$15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants”This randomly selected but high-google-ranked page disagrees with you: https://www.caminofinancial.com/restaurant-costs/ So does this one: https://www.7shifts.com/blog/restaurant-costs/ and this one: https://www.touchbistro.com/blog/restaurant-operating-costs/
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on “Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling small businesses during its busiest season”It looks likes Sweetgreen's food costs (28% of sticker and 24% of costs) are on the low end of the restaurant industry's average [1] and middle of the road for fast food [2]. The 35% corporate overhead seems like the exception. McDonald's, for example, charges a 4 to 5% royalty [3]. [1] https://www.7shifts.com/blog/restaurant-costs/ 25 to 40% [2] https://restaurant.lunchbox.io/what-are-food-costs-for-a-fas... 25% [3…
Comment linking /blog/restaurant-costs/
on “The Economics of a Sweetgreen Salad”Lol, tell me you never operated a restaurant without telling me you've never operated a restaurant. 1. Labor is only ~a third of costs. [1] 2. A slow day at Chick-fil-a would average like 25 people per hour (more during meals, less in between), averaging $10 per person. So $2k per 8 hour shift. [1] https://www.7shifts.com/blog/restaurant-costs/
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on “New California law raises minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour”The ultimate beneficiary is the owner since his business model makes an assumption on tipping to employ waitstaff and run a "viable" business. Business models that rely on tipping to cover basic business model costs should be reconsidered. For the business owner, they have to consider the tradeoffs if they want to maintain the current waitstaff: quantity of staff, hours, variety of menu options, decor, desired profi…
Comment linking /blog/history-of-tipping-restaurants/
on “Customers face a different tipping culture compared to a few years ago”> Or if there's nothing in the contract then management can probably keep them for themselves or donate them. That's a violation of federal labor law. https://www.7shifts.com/blog/restaurant-tip-pooling-laws/
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on “Starbucks Illegally Withheld Raises and Tips from Union Workers, NLRB Says”
