Restaurant scheduling software: AI search visibility ranking (2026)
How AI search engines rank restaurant scheduling software by visibility and citations. 18 brands measured monthly across Google AI Mode: which brands the AI names in answers, which domains it cites as sources, and how the leaders compare. Restaurant scheduling software used to build rosters, forecast labor, manage shifts, communicate with staff, and control labor costs across venues. Composite score: 70% visibility (% of AI answers naming the brand) + 30% citation rate (% citing the brand's domain). Full methodology →
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At a glance
What we observed in this categoryauto-generated
7shifts leads the restaurant scheduling software category with 75% visibility, more than 25 percentage points above the second-ranked brand, Homebase, at 50%. Both sit far above the category average of 10.4%. This gap is significant because it means Google AI Mode is overwhelmingly anchoring its responses around a single brand, leaving the remaining 16 brands competing for fragmented residual visibility. The top two brands together account for the majority of AI-surfaced mentions in the category.
Homebase presents a notable divergence between visibility and citation, appearing in 50% of AI responses but receiving a 0% citation rate. Connecteam shows the inverse pattern, with only 12.5% visibility but a 25% citation rate, the highest of any brand apart from 7shifts. Restaurant365 is cited in 12.5% of responses despite 0% visibility, confirming that citation does not require direct brand mention. Named presence and trusted sourcing are clearly operating as separate signals in this category.
The top cited sources in this category include youtube.com, reddit.com, g2.com, and brand-owned domains such as 7shifts.com and connecteam.com. The presence of larksuite.com, jotform.com, and altametrics.com alongside established review platforms suggests Google AI Mode is drawing from a mixed pool of comparison content, community discussion, and third-party tools. All ten ranked brands share Google AI Mode as their top engine, indicating no meaningful differentiation by engine across the competitive set at this stage.
Movers & shakers since last refresh
Biggest visibility risers
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7shifts 0% → 75% · rank #0 → #1+75pp
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Homebase 0% → 50% · rank #0 → #2+50pp
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Connecteam 0% → 12% · rank #0 → #3+12pp
The ranking
| # | Brand | Visibility | Citation | Top engine |
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| 1 |
7shifts.com
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75% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
7shifts leads with 75% visibility and a 12.5% citation rate, placing its composite score of 56.2 far above the category average visibility of 10.4%. |
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| 2 |
joinhomebase.com
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50% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
Homebase holds 50% visibility but a 0% citation rate, creating a sharp gap between how often it is named versus how often AI treats it as a trusted source. |
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| 3 |
connecteam.com
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12% | 25% | Google AI Mode |
Connecteam achieves its highest leverage through citation at 25%, despite visibility of only 12.5%, suggesting AI treats its domain as a reference source more than a named recommendation. |
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| 4 |
wheniwork.com
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12% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
When I Work sits at 12.5% visibility and 12.5% citation, matching the cluster of rank 5 and rank 6 brands with an identical composite score of 12.5. |
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| 5 |
getsling.com
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12% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
Sling shares an identical composite score of 12.5 with When I Work and Schedulefly, showing no distinguishing AI signal from the mid-tier group at this point. |
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| 6 |
schedulefly.com
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12% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
| 7 |
hotschedules.com
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12% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 8 |
restaurant365.com
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0% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
| 9 |
deputy.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 10 |
planday.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 11 |
harri.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 12 |
pushoperations.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 13 |
zoomshift.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 14 |
humanity.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 15 |
hubworks.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 16 |
fourth.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 17 |
dayforce.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 18 |
planday.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
Sources AI engines trust in this category
Across the 8 buyer-intent queries we ran on restaurant scheduling software, these are the domains Google AI Mode cited most often. If you're not on this list — or if your competitors are — that's a concrete PR / linkbuilding target.
How to read this ranking
Four things worth knowing before you act on the numbers above. These are the same definitions across every industry page — for category-specific observations, see the What we observed section above (where available) and the per-brand insights inline in the ranking.
Visibility = being named
A brand's visibility % is the share of AI answers that mention it by name in the response prose. This is who AI engines actively recommend to the buyer.
Citation rate = being trusted
Citation rate is the share of AI answers that include the brand's domain as a clickable source link. This is what the AI treats as authoritative evidence — different from being named.
Top engine differs by brand
The "top engine" column shows which AI surface each brand performs best on. Big gaps between a brand's score across engines usually points to specific content or schema gaps.
Rankings move month to month
AI engines re-crawl and re-rank on shorter cycles than classical search. We re-audit every brand on this list at least every 30 days and refresh this page automatically.
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Frequently asked about restaurant scheduling software AI visibility
Who leads AI visibility in restaurant scheduling software?
7shifts leads with 75% visibility and a composite score of 56.2, well ahead of second-ranked Homebase at 50% visibility and a composite score of 35.0.
What is the average AI visibility across brands in this category?
The category average visibility is 10.4% and average citation rate is 4.9%, meaning most of the 18 brands tracked have minimal presence in Google AI Mode responses.
Which brand has the highest citation rate relative to its visibility?
Connecteam has a citation rate of 25% despite only 12.5% visibility, the strongest citation-to-visibility ratio in the top five brands.
What sources does Google AI Mode cite most for restaurant scheduling software research?
The top cited sources include youtube.com, reddit.com, g2.com, and brand-owned domains such as 7shifts.com and connecteam.com, alongside larksuite.com, jotform.com, and altametrics.com.
Can a brand receive citations in AI responses without appearing in visibility scores?
Yes. Restaurant365 holds a 12.5% citation rate with 0% visibility, confirming that AI can reference a brand as a source without surfacing it as a named recommendation.
Which brands show the largest recent gains in AI visibility?
7shifts, Homebase, and Connecteam are the biggest visibility risers, all moving from 0% to their current levels, with 7shifts gaining 75 percentage points and Homebase gaining 50 percentage points.