About Catershift
Catershift is a modern staff scheduling platform built specifically for the UK hospitality industry. From independent restaurants and cafés to multi-site hotel groups and catering businesses, Catershift helps you create, manage, and distribute your staff schedules with ease.
Our Mission
Our mission is simple: empower hospitality businesses with intuitive, compliant, and cost-effective scheduling tools that solve the real challenges faced by shift-based teams.
Why We Built Catershift
Scheduling in hospitality is often chaotic — spreadsheets, group chats, and last-minute changes create confusion and cost. We built Catershift to eliminate that chaos and bring clarity, control, and compliance to the scheduling process.
Who We Help
- Independent restaurants and cafés
- Pubs and hotels
- Multi-site hospitality groups
- Event caterers and food service operators
- Retail and Clubs
Key Features
- Real-time dashboard that shows you who is doing what and when.
- Simple yet powerful schedule builder
- Automatic real-time checks for legal compliance (e.g., breaks, max hours, time between shifts)
- No software required by workers
- All features available on smartphone, tablet and PC
- Duplicate entire schedules
- No software required by workers
- Never worry that you may have violated part of the complex Working Time Directive
- Real-time cost and hours calculations
- Staff availability and preferences both recurring and scheduled
- Easy reporting to send to payrole
- Free limited version
Built in the UK, for the UK
We're proud to be a British business supporting UK hospitality with tools tailored to UK laws and working practices — including support for Working Time compliance, financial visibility, and more.
About Ashton IT Services Ltd
Catershift is the trading name of Ashton IT Services Ltd, a UK-registered company (Company No. 15787405), based at Douglas Bank House, Wigan Lane, Wigan WN1 2TB.
Get in Touch
Want to learn more or see how Catershift can help your business? Contact us or get started today.