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The lineup and shift OS for quick-service restaurants.

Tonight's close does not have to look like last night's.

$189 per location, per month. Unlimited users. Annual $1,900. The per-store price drops at 2 and again at 6.

Built by Connor Grindstaff, a multi-unit operator. In daily use across seven stores.

5-star rated on the App Store

Runs on iPhone, on Android, and in any browser. Already on a team that uses FlowState? Sign in with your store number.
Getting the apps: iPhone · Android

Lineup posted in seconds Paper temp log, scanned to data A week's schedule, drafted for your approval Audit binder in one tap English & Español, screen for screen

I built this because I was the software. The meeting lived in a notebook. The lineup lived on a whiteboard that got wiped. The shift talk lived in a group text nobody could search. Why it exists.

What changes on a shift

Three things that stop depending on who is working.

The three places an operating standard slips first, and what holds it in place instead.

The lineup, posted before the rush hits.

Pick a daypart, tap names onto stations, hit notify. The board knows who's scheduled, who's a minor, and who's already been on window for three hours.

  • Tap-to-place or drag & drop, per daypart
  • AI draft fills the board from history
  • Print the day sheet for the wall
Today's lunch board: two on Front Register, two on Drive-Thru Window, two still available

What the can cost you this week.

Tap the item when it hits the trash. That is the entire workflow, and it happens where the waste happens rather than on a clipboard somebody reconciles on Sunday.

  • One tap per item, logged at the bin
  • Dollars, not a percentage nobody can act on
  • Broken out by item and by daypart, so it points somewhere

One tap from inspection-ready.

When the health inspector walks in, you're one tap from ready, because your temps, breaks, write-ups, and certifications already live in one place. Pick a date range and the audit binder compiles the whole record, print-ready.

  • Temps, breaks, checklists, write-ups, certs in one document
  • Every entry with who logged it, and when
  • Print it, or save it as a PDF, in one tap

The rest of it

One app for the whole crew, owner to brand-new hire.

Built for the pace of a drive-thru rush: every tool is two taps deep, the logs keep working when the Wi-Fi doesn't, and it all runs in English and Spanish.

Scheduling & availability

Build the week on a real grid, honor availability and minor labor rules automatically, and let the AI assistant draft a fair, feasible week you just approve.

One app instead of three · Bring a HotSchedules week over

Station lineups

The setup board no scheduling app has: drag the crew onto stations for every daypart, post it, and the wall copy prints in one tap.

Food safety, logged

Temperature rounds, RSA/FSA checks, and checklists with streaks you can't pencil-whip. Snap a photo of a paper log and the app fills the form for you.

What a health inspector actually checks

Group chat, minus the group text

Channels, DMs, polls, pins, and announcements with read receipts, plus an AI "catch me up" for whatever you missed between shifts.

Shout-outs & goals

Streaks, leaderboards, and daily goals that make the good shifts visible, not just the mistakes.

Labor Shield & audit binder

Break rules enforced while the shift runs, and the whole compliance story (temps, breaks, write-ups, certifications) compiled print-ready in one tap.

Jolt alternatives, including when to stay

Waste, in dollars

Tap the item when it hits the trash. See what the can cost you this week in dollars, per item, per daypart, not a vague percentage.

Timeclock to payroll

Punches happen in the app; a clean payroll CSV comes out the other end, ready for any payroll provider.

Write-ups that hold up

Formal, bilingual write-ups drafted from the teammate's actual record, printed with signature lines for the sit-down.

The Hub that greets the person running the shift.

Not a demo account named Owner. Dana, the 86 board, what needs her, and the store vision. This is the first screen a leader opens.

  • The greeting uses their name
  • 86s, announcements, and the next decision sit on one screen
  • The crew tools are two taps down
The Hub greeting Dana Whitfield, with 86s, an announcement, and what needs her today

The group chat, minus the chaos.

Keep shift talk out of personal group texts. Channels for the store, DMs for the sidebars, polls for the closing-shift playlist. Every announcement tracks who's actually seen it.

  • Reactions, replies, pins, and file sharing
  • Polls with live results
  • AI summary catches you up after days off
The #general channel: daytime messages from Dana, Aisha, Priya, and the rest of the crew

Works everywhere

Phones on the floor. Desktop in the office. Paper on the wall.

One product, tuned for every surface a restaurant actually uses.

On their phones

The full app on iPhone and on Android, and the full web app on anything else, with offline logging that syncs when the walk-in kills the Wi-Fi.

Desktop web

A real desktop workspace: sidebar navigation, three-pane messages, a week-grid schedule builder, and wide-screen analytics.

Print-ready

Week schedule wall copy, day lineup sheets, write-ups with signature lines, and the full audit binder, clean black-on-white, one tap.

Shared counter devices

A face-wall for quick user switching, auto-lock on walk-away, and wages stay hidden unless it's really them.

English & Spanish

Every screen, every button, every notification: full parity, not a token translation.

Light & dark

Follows the device, or set it per machine for the office PC and the counter iPad.

★★★★★

5-star rated on the App Store

Every review below is real and unedited, left by people using it on shift.

★★★★★
“The interface is clean, intuitive, and easy to navigate. It’s clear a lot of thought went into the user experience.”
wiggly_Napkin · App Store
★★★★★
“It’s a really professional app and it’s very helpful during the shifts.”
Ely0408 · App Store
★★★★★
“Amazing app! Clean, user-friendly, and very promising. Looking forward to all the new features.”
Jcarmen02 · App Store

Pricing

One price per store. Everyone's included.

No per-seat math, no tiers to decode. Every teammate, leader, and owner in your store uses the full product. A 40-person crew costs the same as a 15-person crew.

Do the stack math: a scheduling app + a food-safety app + a chat tool runs $250–300 a month across three logins and three invoices. FlowState is all of it: one bill, one app, everyone included.
30 days, money back. A web Monthly or Annual plan’s first charge, once per store. If it is not working, email us inside 30 days and we refund that charge. No explanation needed, no phone call, same business day. It is written into our terms, not just said here.
2 MONTHS FREE

Annual

$2,268
$1,900
per store / year, about $158/mo

The same everything, billed once a year. Cancel anytime; you keep access through the period you paid for.

Start on the web

Monthly

$189
per store / month

The whole crew, every feature, no contract. Cancel anytime, with no phone calls and no lock-in.

Start on the web

Running more than one store?

The per-store price comes down as the group grows. Drag to your number.

6 stores
Per store$150/mo
Your total$900/mo
You save$234/mo

or $1,500 per store billed yearly, about two months free.

21% off list on every location, from the day the group starts.

Start on the web
1 store$189
2 to 5$170
6 to 15$150
16+Enterprise

Enterprise

Sixteen locations and up

One invoice for the whole group instead of one per store, a rollout you are walked through market by market, reporting that rolls every location into a single view, and a named person to call who is not a ticket queue. Priced with you.

Set up right here on the web. Your whole team is in within minutes, and the crew signs in from any device afterwards, on iPhone, Android or a browser.

Questions

The short answers.

How do my employees get access?

You add them, or snap a photo of your current schedule and the roster builds itself. They sign in with your store number, on their own phones or a shared counter device. There's no per-person charge, ever.

I'm on Android. Can I use FlowState?

Yes. There's an Android app you install straight from us at flowstateqsr.com/android: one tap, about a minute. Same full product as the iPhone app, and it tells you when a new version is ready. Prefer not to install anything? FlowState runs in any browser, on any device.

How long does setup take?

Most stores are running the same day. Add your roster (or snap your current schedule), post your first lineup, and the crew signs in with your store number.

Do we need new hardware?

No. FlowState runs on the phones your crew already has, any web browser, and whatever iPad or PC lives in your office. Printing works from any browser.

What happens when the internet drops?

Temp logs, waste taps, and checklists keep working offline and sync automatically when the connection returns. Nobody stands around holding a thermometer.

Is our data private?

Each store's data is isolated. Wages are masked on shared devices. Pay data is never sent to AI features. Every export is logged. And your team is not our marketing list: we never use a teammate's name, email or phone to market anything, to them or to anyone else, and we never sell team data or build ad audiences from it. That is section 4 of our terms, not just a policy page. See our privacy policy.

What happens to my data if I cancel?

It stays exportable: schedules, logs, payroll CSVs, and the full audit binder print or download before you go. No hostages.

Can I try it before subscribing?

Yes, two ways. Watch it run a shift in 51 seconds on the demo, no signup. Or try it on a real week of shifts: a web Monthly or Annual plan’s first charge is refundable for 30 days, once per store. Email us inside 30 days and we refund that charge, same business day, no explanation needed. That is in our terms. Cancel any time, no phone calls. Want it walked through on your own store’s setup? Talk to us.

Tonight's close doesn't have to look like last night's.

Set up your store in minutes. Your crew will know exactly where to stand by tomorrow's lunch rush.

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