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Restaurants need more than just scheduling. Use a mobile-first, all-in-one scheduling, hiring, onboarding and payroll platform purpose-built for your restaurant reality.

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Workstream is built for franchise and business owners

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All-in-one restaurant HR

Manage your entire employee lifecycle – posting jobs, onboarding new hires, creating schedules, and running payroll – all in one platform

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Workstream is mobile-first from the ground up, supporting fast hiring, onboarding, time tracking, and real-time team communication easily.

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Restaurants trust Workstream for consistent, knowledgeable support every day your restaurant is open.

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Custom Hiring Templates & QR Codes
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Integration to 25,000+ Job Boards
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Full service payroll processing
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“Workstream is the best! The customer service is phenomenal, it’s very reasonably priced, some of the new products are so exciting, and I just see such a bright future for us with Workstream.”
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Franchise Owner of 41 Bojangles Locations

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“Workstream is the best! The customer service is phenomenal, it’s very reasonably priced, some of the new products are so exciting, and I just see such a bright future for us with Workstream.”
Rajiv Dinakaran
Franchise Owner of 41 Bojangles Locations