Staff planning for public catering
Precise planning despite extreme seasonality
School holidays, semester breaks, company vacations — public catering has the strongest fluctuations in demand in hospitality. Nesto predicts the number of guests and automatically plans staff digitally. This ensures cost transparency even with subsidized models and low margins.
Leading operators use Nesto
for precise control over hundreds of locations.
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Your challenges
demand, margins and their pitfalls
Extreme fluctuations in demand, low margins and concentrated mealtimes make GV the most complex hospitality industry. Nesto was developed for exactly these challenges.
Extreme seasonality
While restaurants have relatively stable demand, public catering is struggling with extreme fluctuations and is doing so differently week after week. Gut planning either costs you overtime or leads to queues.
Crisp prices, tight budgets — every overtime counts
With lower margins than traditional restaurants, precise personnel deployment planning is essential for survival. Any overstaffing directly eats your margin. Any understaffing results in complaints from employers or institutions.
Fixed meal times, variable demand
While restaurants have guests spread out throughout the day, everyone in the GV comes at the same time. Wrong staffing means either queues or unnecessary wage costs.
How it works
How Nesto public catering optimal control
Nesto was developed for companies with complex challenges. Automatic shift planning optimizes on an hourly basis and seamless time recording provides you with cost transparency per meal for providers, employers, authorities.
Forecasts despite extreme seasonality
Nestos KI knows vacation calendars, audit phases, company vacations — and forecasts precisely, even when demand is -80% or +150%. 85% + accuracy, 4 weeks ahead.
Lower personnel costs
Wage costs, working time recording, surcharge calculations — everything is transparently documented and available for reporting at any time.
Cost transparency for carriers
Wage costs, working time recording, surcharge calculations — everything is transparently documented and available for reporting at any time.
Ready for precision despite seasonality?
In a demo, we'll show you how Nesto creates forecasts for public catering — automatically taking vacation, audit and vacation periods into account.
Our solutions for you
That's what Nesto does Public catering easier
No complex systems, no weeks of training. Just three key features that solve your biggest pain points. Digital, intuitive, ready to use.
Automatic work schedule
From hours up to 40 seconds
The AI knows your seasonal patterns, whether it's vacation periods, exam phases or peak times. It automatically creates work schedules that match your actual demand. 40 seconds instead of several hours, optimally staffed for 11:30-13:30.
Automatic consideration of vacation and exam calendars
Hourly optimization for peak times
50% less planning time
employee app
No layer ping-pong only an app
Work schedules via push notification, desired times digitally, vacation requests with a click. Everything is multilingual, intuitive, without training. 85% + usage rate — no more paperwork, no more “I didn't notice” excuses.
Push notifications instead of WhatsApp chaos
Digital preferred periods and vacation requests
Available in multiple languages for international teams
Digital time recording
From time sheets to error-free wage exports
Employees stamp via app, Nesto automatically checks (missing stamps, rest periods, surcharges). At the end of the month, all data flows to the payroll office without errors.
Stamping and unstamping via app in seconds
Automatic surcharge calculation and plausibility check
Error-free export to DATEV, Addison, Agenda and co.
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success stories
Companies that start with Nesto Achieve success
From quick service to full service to thermal restaurants: See how chains use Nesto to optimize their personnel planning, 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
-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.
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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
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FAQ
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How does AI-based workforce planning work for contract catering?
Nestos KI-basierte Personalplanung analysiert historische Gästezahlen and externe Faktoren wie Ferienkalender, Prüfungszeiten and Betriebsurlaube. Die Software for Gemeinschaftsverpflegung prognostiziert dann präzise, wie viele Mitarbeiter you wann brauchst – trotz extremer saisonaler Schwankungen. Die automatische Dienstplanung erstellt in 40 Sekunden optimale Schichtpläne, the to your tatsächlichen Nachfrage passen.
Can the scheduling with extremen saisonalen Schwankungen in the Gemeinschaftsverpflegung umgehen??
Ja. Nestos Dienstplanung is speziell on the Herausforderungen the Gemeinschaftsverpflegung ausgelegt. Die KI berücksichtigt automatisch Semesterferien, Prüfungsphasen and Betriebsurlaube.
How does Nesto support digitalization in contract catering?
Nesto digitalisiert alle Kernprozesse: Dienstplanung läuft automatisch statt across Excel, Kommunikation across the Mitarbeiter-App statt WhatsApp, Zeiterfassung per Smartphone statt Stundenzettel. Die digitale Personalplanung reduziert Admin-Aufwand um 70% and ermöglicht transparente Kostenkontrolle.
How does Nesto plan for concentrated meal times?
Die KI-basierte Personalplanung erstellt stündliche Forecasts and optimiert the Dienstplanung speziell for Peak-Zeiten. Nesto berechnet automatisch, wann genau the Gäste-Peak kommt, and plant Überlappungszeiten so, that you in the kritischen Phasen optimal besetzt bist. Aufteilung after Stationen (Ausgabe, Kasse, Küche) sorgt for reibungslosen Ablauf in the Gemeinschaftsverpflegung.
Does Nesto work for contract catering operators with many locations?
Ja. Nestos Personalplanung is for Multi-Site-Betriebe entwickelt. Große Gemeinschaftsverpflegungs-Betreiber steuern hunderte Kantinen and Mensen zentral – jeder Standort erhält individuelle Forecasts and automatische Dienstplanung, but zentrale KPIs ermöglichen Gesamtsteuerung. Die Digitalisierung skaliert from 5 until 500+ Standorten ohne Mehraufwand.