Employment OS for your Business

Employment OS for Job Seekers

ATS for restaurants

Stop losing great hospitality talent to the restaurant next door. Attract more applicants, automate your candidate screening, and track every interview in one place. Fill your open roles faster with an AI-powered Applicant Tracking System built for the fast pace of restaurants and hospitality.

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Hire front and back of house talent in record time

Accelerated candidate sourcing

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Stop waiting for the right applicant to find you. Employment Hero helps you source and attract qualified candidates fast – from servers, bartenders, and cooks – pushing your job ads to top boards with a single click.

A recruitment system built for hospitality

Ditch the clunky corporate hiring tools. Manage your job postings, candidate pipelines, and interview scoring in one unified AI-powered HRIS Employment OS built for Canadian restaurants.

Review candidates on the go

Review resumes, score interviews, and move candidates through the hiring pipeline directly from your smartphone. You never have to be tied to a back-office desk to make a great hire.

Frictionless application process

Don’t lose candidates to a complicated form. Give hospitality talent a fast, mobile-friendly application experience that they can complete entirely from their phones.

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Collaborative hiring

Get your shift managers involved. Share applicant profiles with your team, leave internal notes, and make collaborative hiring decisions without forwarding a single email.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions from restaurant operators about our applicant tracking system.

Our ATS is built for speed. When you need to scale up fast, our ATS lets you bulk-process applications and automate first-round video screening. You can quickly staff up your front and back of house without drowning in administrative work.

Absolutely. We provide a frictionless, mobile-first experience so servers and hosts can apply in seconds directly from their smartphones, capturing candidates who are applying on the go.

Yes. Whether you run a single diner in Calgary or a multi-venue hospitality group across the country, the platform scales with you. Customize your hiring workflows by location and manage your talent pipeline for every venue from one centralized account.

Yes. General managers and head chefs belong on the floor, not at a desk. Our mobile app allows your leadership team to collaborate, review applications, score interviews, and send digital offers directly from their phones anywhere in Canada.

Yes. As soon as a candidate accepts their digital offer, they enter a paperless onboarding flow. The system automatically collects TD1 tax forms and tracks mandatory provincial qualifications like Smart Serve, Serving It Right, or Food Handler certificates before their first shift.

ATS hiring advice and resources for restaurants

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Employee Experience

Run payroll your way, every time

Whether you want to run manual diligence or outsource the bulk of work to our specialists, Employment Hero has a payroll solution that flexes with your ways of working.  

Automate core payroll and post-payroll tasks at no cost. Really.

Centralized access to pre-payroll data like timesheets, time off and rostering.

A dedicated payroll partner to handle complex tasks, from legislation changes to year-end submissions.

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Automated direct deposits and remittances, compliance reporting and more.

Hiring on autopilot

Take people from “Hi” to Hired without switching tabs.

Get instant access to talent. Save time and cut costs.

Curated talent shortlists automation and more.

Manage open roles, interviews and onboarding from one place.

Find, hire and onboard team members all in the same tab.

Make work feel less like work

We’ve made work admin a breeze. Forget paper-based processes and lost time off requests: give your team self-service access to all their important HR and Payroll tasks.

All employee data is housed in a single, secure platform.

Automate time off requests, performance reviews and onboarding.

Centralize and share company policies and essential documents.

Workforce analytics and reports to help leaders make data-driven decisions.

Supporting employment from every angle

Your employment vision — ignited to its full potential.

Forget payroll complexity. We deliver compliant, accurate pay runs with unmatched ease.

Why leave R&D cash on the table? Recover up to 64% with our SR&ED expertise, fuelled by your HR and payroll data.

Expert-led advice, compliance checks and advice.

Benefits+: Your team’s health benefits, digitally managed. Real-time updates push directly from HR, making manual tasks a thing of the past.

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