How we got started...Wes Aiken created the schedule on paper for a restaurant while in college in the 90’s. He’d spend hours every Sunday piecing it together, and frustratingly watch it become irrelevant within minutes of posting it. But that was how restaurant schedules were handled back then. Meanwhile, Wes learned to write code and in 2007 he created a simple web-based solution to make scheduling and communication easier for restaurants.

What's happening now…We built Schedulefly to make life easier at independent restaurants. We keep our app simple, we take great care of our customers, and we’re incredibly easy to do business with. Our customers love Schedulefly and tell other people about it, so we've grown primarily through word-of-mouth. We don't have sales people. We don’t advertise. And we don’t have investors. We just grow one restaurant at a time, and our customers love Schedulefly enough that 99% of them renew every month. Over 3,000 restaurants use Schedulefly today.

Thanks for checking out Schedulefly,
Wes, Tyler, Wil, Charles and Hank

p.s. check out our behind the curtain blog series to learn more about us and our business.

Our book has received some great reviews and we've heard personally from many readers. It is a popular book because it offers simple, practical advice from people who know what they are talking about. However, we've always felt there was a gap with the book. We were the only people who got to listen the owners' voices. We were the only people lucky enough to hear their enthusiasm for what they do pour out as they talked. The passion was palpable in each conversation. The energy was contagious. So we are now traveling to their restaurants to capture their passion and advice on film.

Watch more restaurant owner interviews from our series

Over the years we've also filmed a few videos about how we are making life easier at restaurants.

2009 Video

2012 Video