Split shift scheduling for restaurants.

Lunch rush, a quiet afternoon, dinner rush — plenty of restaurants open in two separate windows instead of running straight through. SchedulR builds around that shape natively, instead of forcing every day into one continuous open-to-close block.

What counts as a split day?

A split — or "siesta" — day is one with more than one open window, like 11:00–15:00 for lunch and 18:00–23:00 for dinner, with the restaurant closed in between. That's different from a long single shift, or two shifts that just happen to run back-to-back inside one continuous open window — those are a double shift, not a split day. SchedulR keeps the two cases distinct, because the scheduling question is different: a split day is really asking who's available (and willing) to work two separate stretches on the same date.

How SchedulR schedules it

Set up a station with two (or more) open windows for a day, and SchedulR treats each window as its own set of shifts to fill — using the same per-person availability you've already set, the same fairness rules, and the same weekly hour caps. If a window still needs coverage after the first pass, SchedulR looks at who's already working that day and offers them the second window, rather than pulling in someone who wasn't scheduled at all — the same instinct a manager has when filling a gap by hand.

Not everyone wants a split day, and SchedulR doesn't assume they do — a staff member can be marked as never available for a second shift on the same day, and SchedulR simply won't offer them one, full stop. Hours from both halves of a split day still count toward that person's weekly cap automatically, so a double-window day never quietly pushes someone over their limit.