Fat Tommy's Grill
Crestwood, IL
Since we started using ShiftTrained, we have made no other changes and check totals have gone up 11%.
+11%check totals
Tommy P.
Co-Owner, Fat Tommy's Grill
The Best Way to Train Your
Restaurant Staff
ShiftTrained is an AI menu training platform built for restaurants. Upload your menu, our AI generates the quiz, and your staff is taking it on their phone in minutes.
No app to install.
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It's Easy as 1, 2, 3.
Watch your entire training pipeline come together in minutes.
Step 1
UPLOAD YOUR MENU
Drop your menu PDF here
or click to browse
menu.pdf
Reading menu...
Step 2
OUR AI GENERATES THE QUESTIONS
Question Bank342 generated
Q.
Which dish contains tree nuts?
Beet & Walnut Salad
Q.
What pairs best with the salmon?
Sauvignon Blanc
Q.
Is the pesto safe for nut allergies?
No, contains pine nuts
Q.
Which entrée is gluten-free?
Grilled Salmon
Q.
Most expensive entrée?
Bone-In Ribeye, $58
Q.
Dairy in the Caesar dressing?
Yes, parmesan + anchovy
Q.
Soup of the day?
Tomato Bisque
Q.
Vegan dessert option?
Dark Chocolate Sorbet
Q.
Which dish contains tree nuts?
Beet & Walnut Salad
Q.
What pairs best with the salmon?
Sauvignon Blanc
Q.
Is the pesto safe for nut allergies?
No, contains pine nuts
Q.
Which entrée is gluten-free?
Grilled Salmon
Q.
Most expensive entrée?
Bone-In Ribeye, $58
Q.
Dairy in the Caesar dressing?
Yes, parmesan + anchovy
Q.
Soup of the day?
Tomato Bisque
Q.
Vegan dessert option?
Dark Chocolate Sorbet
Step 3
STAFF TAKING QUIZZES IN MINUTES
9:41
Fat Tommy's Grill & Sports BarQuestion 1 of 5
What protein is featured in our Tuscan Pasta?
AShrimp
BGrilled Chicken
CItalian Sausage
DBraised Beef
Want to do that with YOUR menu?
Drop Your Menu FreeHow It Works
Three steps from menu to trained staff. PDF, photo, or your POS, all work. The AI builds the quiz, you don't, no manual data entry, no question writing, no guesswork.
1
Upload Your Menu
Drop a PDF or snap a photo of your menu. Our AI reads every item, ingredient, and price.
2
AI Generates Quizzes
50+ questions created instantly. Full menu, food-only, or drinks & wine.
3
NO APP TO INSTALL
Staff Take Quizzes on Their Phone
Timed, mobile-first quizzes. Track scores, spot knowledge gaps, build confidence.
Built for Every Type of Restaurant
From white tablecloth to sports bar, if your staff needs to know the menu, ShiftTrained works.
Fine Dining
Wine pairings, tasting notes, seasonal specials, ensure every server delivers a polished experience.
Casual Dining
Keep your team sharp on menu changes, daily specials, and allergen info across every shift.
Sports Bars & Pubs
Draft lists, cocktail specs, and food menus, train high-turnover staff fast and consistently.
Hotels & Hospitality
Multiple outlets, room service menus, banquet options, one platform to train them all.
Your restaurant is in there. Start training tonight.
Upload Menu NowEverything You Need to Train Smarter
A complete training platform built specifically for restaurants. No generic LMS, this is purpose-built.
PDF, Photo, or POS
Drop a PDF, snap a photo, or connect your POS. Live Toast & Square integration imports your menu and keeps it in sync automatically.
AI Menu Parsing
Upload once, quiz forever. Menu changes? Re-upload and new questions appear automatically.
Mobile-First Quizzes
Designed for phones. Big buttons, timed questions, instant feedback, the way staff actually use it.
Manager Dashboard
See who's trained, who's not, and where the knowledge gaps are. All in real time.
Leaderboards & Badges
Gamify training. Staff compete, scores improve, and everyone gets better at their job.
AI Study Guides
Missed questions? AI creates personalized review material so staff learn from their mistakes.
Those are the basics — see everything we just shipped.Hot Features→
Everything at a Glance
A clean, powerful dashboard built for the restaurant manager.
Not IT departments.
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ShiftTrainedDashboard
Results
Employees
Questions
Menus
Settings
Dashboard
Pro PlanQuestion Pool
127
+12 this week
Staff Members
14
12 completed
Quiz Attempts
89
+23 this month
Avg Score
84%
+6% vs last month
Recent ResultsExport CSV
| Employee | Score | % | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah M. | 19/20 | 95% | 4:32 | Today |
| James K. | 17/20 | 85% | 5:18 | Today |
| Maria L. | 18/20 | 90% | 3:55 | Yesterday |
| David R. | 14/20 | 70% | 6:42 | Yesterday |
| Ashley T. | 20/20 | 100% | 3:12 | Apr 5 |
This dashboard, with YOUR menu in it.
Upload Menu NowLive Toast integration, leaderboards, allergen-safe quizzes — all included.Hot Features→
Real customers, real results
Two operating Chicago restaurants. Same staff.
No menu changes.
New numbers.
No promotions. No price changes. No menu changes. Just trained staff who actually know what they're selling.
Live and operating at
Black Barrel Tavern
West Loop · Chicago, IL
Wine sales for both bottle and by-the-glass are up 34%. The staff is not scared to talk about the wine anymore. That's the biggest change.
+34%wine sales
George G.
Operating Partner, Black Barrel Tavern
Performance figures pulled from POS reporting. No incentives offered for endorsement.
Everything For Everyone
A 30-year restaurateur knows the cost battles you fight every day. Training shouldn't be one of them.
Limited time only
Lock in launch pricing now. These prices won't last forever.
Start today and your rate is locked for 2 years, guaranteed. As we ship Square, BOH, and more, prices go up — early restaurants keep theirs.
Get all of it, for as little as $1.00 per team member.
- Unlimited manager access
- Unlimited menus
- Unlimited quizzes
- Know Your Brands quiz
- AI study guides
- Allergen quiz mode
- Leaderboard & score tracking
- POS integration (early access)
- Kitchen TrainingComing Soon
- Multi-Language SupportComing Soon
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• Multiple locations• Cross-location reporting• Corporate dashboard• 100+ employees• Custom integrations
Toast & Square are LIVE
Toast & Square are live. Help us pick what's next.
Toast and Square have both shipped. Now operators are voting on which POS we wire up next.
We're building the bridge between your POS and your team's heads. Your menu in your POS, all your employees, into ShiftTrained, out come the quizzes your staff takes on their phones.
Change a menu item in the POS? BOOM. Your quizzes already reflect it. Hire a new server? BOOM. They're already in the quiz rotation. No double-entry.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do my staff need to download an app?
No app, no download, no friction. Quizzes run in any phone browser, Safari, Chrome, whatever's already on their phone. They tap a link from a text or email, take the quiz, done. We built it this way because asking servers to install another app is where adoption dies.
What POS systems do you integrate with?
ShiftTrained integrates directly with Toast and Square. Connect your POS in a few clicks and we pull your live menu, the items, prices, descriptions, and photos, then build the training quiz from it automatically. Your team roster can come straight from the POS too, and the training stays current as the menu changes. No POS, or running a system we don't support yet? Upload your menu directly, that always works.
What if my menu changes?
If your POS is connected, the menu syncs automatically and the questions update on their own. If you upload menus manually, just re-upload the new one and our AI regenerates the question bank in minutes. We built this because menus change every season, every special, every supplier swap.
Can you quiz staff on what a dish actually looks like?
Yes. ShiftTrained can put a dish photo right on the question, pulled from your POS item images or uploaded by you, so staff learn to recognize the plate, not just memorize the name. It's the difference between knowing the word "Caprese" and knowing what to carry to the table.
Can you train my bar team on the brands we carry?
Yes. Know Your Brands builds a quiz from your spirits, beer, and wine list, including which brands you stock and, just as important, which ones you don't. When a guest asks for something specific, your bartender knows the answer instead of guessing.
Can I train more than menus, like our SOPs or steps of service?
Yes. Upload your handbook, service standards, or steps-of-service guide and ShiftTrained generates a quiz from it the same way it does for a menu. Anything you can put in a document, your team can be trained and tested on.
Does it work in Spanish?
Coming soon.
How long does setup take?
Upload your menu or connect your POS, watch the AI work, send your team the link, usually a single afternoon. Big menus take longer to generate questions, smaller menus are faster. Either way you go from "I should train my staff" to "staff is taking quizzes on their phones" the same day.
Coming Soon
New Module
Coming Soon: Kitchen Training
Cooks, prep teams, baristas, smoothie makers, if they build it, we train it.
Upload your recipe cards, prep sheets, drink build guides, or service cards. Our AI generates quiz questions on portions, temps, build order, plating standards, and food safety. Whether it's a line cook plating a steak, a barista pulling espresso, or a juice bar prepping açaí bowls, your back-of-house team takes the quiz on their phone in ten minutes.
- Recipe cards, prep sheets, and drink build guides
- Portions, temps, build order, and plating
- Food safety and compliance documentation
- Available in English and Spanish
- Separate BOH leaderboard for kitchen competition
Not faster flashcards — a whole new way to train.Hot Features→
The frame we built this on
Restaurant training just had its buggy-whip moment.
Theodore Levitt's 1960 essay Marketing Myopia, still the most-reprinted article in Harvard Business Review, describes companies that died defining themselves by their product instead of the job their product did. When the car arrived, buggy-whip makers built fancier whips. The market evaporated underneath them.
1996
The buggy-whip
- Flashcards in an app
- Tag-along the manager for a week
- Generic, one-size-fits-all
- Manual entry every menu update
- Methodology from 1996
2026
The assembly line
- AI in your pocket, no app to install
- Quiz on the phone, anywhere, 3-second load
- Built around YOUR menu, your concept
- Upload PDF, just minutes, done
- Built for 2026
Our competitors are making better buggy-whips. We're building the assembly line.
We're not making faster flashcards. We built ShiftTrained for the operators who already know the old methodology hit its ceiling. AI menu training. Mobile-native. Allergen-safe. POS-integrated. FOH and BOH. The new dawn.
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