Scheduling for bakeries
From night shift to Sunday rush:
Optimally staffed
Production starts at 2 AM, sales run until 6 PM, and on Sundays you have 3x more customers than on Wednesday. Nesto forecasts sales with up to 90% staffing accuracy, automatically plans staff for production and stores. Whether 5 or 200 locations.
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Your challenges
Why bakery planning is so complex
Revenue fluctuations, high labor costs due to night shifts, and store coordination make bakeries the most complex retail industry.
Higher revenue with higher labor costs
Extreme weekday fluctuations: Monday-Wednesday quiet, weekends main business with highest revenue and highest premiums. With 30-40% labor costs, wrong planning eats the margin. Optimally staffed = profitability.
Frequent night shift and weekend premiums
With low margins in the bakery business, every hour of overtime is critical. Precise planning = cost control.
Central bakery, many stores – each with its own revenue pattern
The bakery produces, the stores sell – each with its own foot traffic and peak times. Optimally staffing each store becomes impossible.
Your solution
How bakeries manage their staff with Nesto
Revenue fluctuations, high labor costs due to night shifts, and store coordination make bakeries the most complex retail industry.
Lower labor costs
Direct margin improvement with 30-40% labor cost ratio.
All stores centrally coordinated
Revenue and station-based planning eliminates overstaffing and plans for peaks in time.
Up to 90% staffing accuracy
Staff matches revenue exactly. Sunday fully staffed, Wednesday minimal. No lost sales, no unnecessary labor costs.
Ready for lower labor costs despite night shifts?
In 30 minutes we show you how Nesto forecasts revenue per store, automatically plans bakery and stores, and reduces your labor costs.
Our solutions for you
How to solve the biggest bakery challenges with Nesto
Three features that solve revenue fluctuations, night shift complexity, and store coordination.
AI scheduling
Revenue-based planning for bakery and stores
AI forecasts revenue per store and calculates your staffing needs automatically. Plans night shifts for bakery and sales staff for stores. Faster than you can make coffee.
Revenue forecasts per store
Night shift planning with automatic premium calculation
50-75% less planning time for multi-store operations
Digital time tracking
Night shift premiums automatically calculated
Night work (2-6 AM), Sunday work, holiday premiums – Nesto calculates automatically and checks rest periods (11h after night shift). Error-free export to DATEV. Cost transparency per store + bakery.
Automatic night shift premiums
Compliance check
Error-free payroll export
Employee app
Digital communication
for bakery and all stores
Everyone receives their schedule via push. Whether digital preferred times, posting open shifts, or multilingual support. Your employees will love the app.
Push notifications for night shifts and store shifts
Post open shifts in app
Digital availability for complex work time models
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success stories
Companies achieving success with Nesto
From quick-service to full-service to spa restaurants: See how chains optimize their workforce planning with Nesto, reduce costs, and scale profitably.
restaurants
Like Kaimug with 96% forecast accuracy Profitable plans for catering concepts
The Kaimug Group operates a wide variety of catering concepts with various requirements. Find out how Nesto helps
96 %
Sales forecasts meet actual values almost exactly
Black figures
Summer months mean no more losses thanks to precise planning
+1 %
Two hours of optimized planning per day increase margins from 9% to 10%
Kaimug
QSR Industries
Bona'me digitizes HR with Nesto and saves up to 70% time
bona'me has been using Nesto as a comprehensive digital employee tool since November 2024. Find out how bona'me scales with Nesto.
70%
Saving time in HR processes
50%
Faster payslips
100%
Paperless personnel management
Bona'me
QSR Industries
-9% personnel costs. +22% Productivity How McDonald's Deitlaff their businesses continuously optimized
Three restaurants. Three different teams. A key challenge: mastering the balancing act between efficiency, transparency and employee satisfaction.
-9 %
All three restaurants reduced personnel costs through needs-based planning
+22 %
Sudden increase following introduction in September 2024
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AI-supported sales forecasts precisely meet actual values
Mc Donald's
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How does AI-based workforce planning work for bakeries?
Nestos KI-basierte Personalplanung analysiert Umsatzdaten pro Filiale (Wochentage, Wetter, Laufkundschaft) and berechnet daraus Personal-Bedarf for the Backstube. Die Software for Bäckereien plant automatisch Nachtschichten for Produktion and Verkaufspersonal for Filialen. Die automatische Dienstplanung erreicht until to 90% Besetzungsgenauigkeit in 40 Sekunden – kritisch for Bäckereien with zentraler Produktion, dezentralen Filialen and komplexen Nachtschicht-Modellen.
How does Nesto plan night shifts for bakeries?
Automatic scheduling considers, that Produktion in Bäckereien 2-4 Uhr morgens startet. Nesto prüft automatisch alle gesetzlichen Vorgaben for Nachtarbeit: Ruhezeit after Nachtschicht, Höchstarbeitszeiten, Nachtarbeit-Limits. Die KI-basierte Personalplanung berechnet Nachtschicht-Zuschläge automatisch. Die digitale Zeiterfassung dokumentiert lückenlos, was wichtig for Bäckereien with täglichen Nachtschichten and hohen Zuschlagskosten ist.
How does Nesto support digitalization in bakeries?
Nesto digitalisiert alle Kernprozesse: Dienstplanung läuft automatisch basierend on Umsatzprognosen statt across Excel, Kommunikation across Mitarbeiter-App statt Telefonlisten, Zeiterfassung per Smartphone statt Stundenzettel. Die digitale Personalplanung reduziert Admin-Aufwand um 70% and ermöglicht Kostentransparenz pro Filiale and Backstube.
Does Nesto work for restaurant chains with many locations?
Ja. Nesto’s Personalplanung is for Multi-Site-Betriebe entwickelt. McDonald's Deutschland, L'Osteria, Kaimug große Restaurant-Ketten steuern hunderte Standorte zentral. Jedes Restaurant erhält individuelle Gästeprognosen and automatische Dienstplanung, but zentrale KPIs ermöglichen Gesamtsteuerung. Die Digitalisierung skaliert from 5 until tausenden Restaurants, jeder Standort is on lokale Muster optimiert.
Does Nesto plan bakehouse and branches separately?
Ja. Die automatische Dienstplanung optimiert beide Bereiche koordiniert: Backstube is after Gesamt-Produktionsbedarf aller Filialen geplant. Jede Filiale erhält einen individuellen Plan after lokalem Umsatzmuster. Die KI-basierte Personalplanung for Bäckereien synchronisiert beide automatisch, Produktion startet rechtzeitig, damit Filialen pünktlich beliefert sind. Kritisch for Bäckerei-Ketten with zentraler Produktion.
Does Nesto work for bakery chains with many branches?
Ja. Nestos Personalplanung is for Multi-Site-Betriebe entwickelt. Große Bäckerei-Ketten steuern zentrale Backstube + hunderte Filialen with einer Dienstplanung. Jede Filiale erhält individuelle Umsatzprognosen and automatische Personalplanung. Die KI-basierte Dienstplanung ermöglicht zentrale Steuerung at individueller Optimierung. Die Digitalisierung skaliert from 5 until 200+ Filialen for Bäckereien ohne Mehraufwand.