Restaurant hiring · front-of-house · line · dish · shift leads

AI-native hiring ops for
restaurants that hire by the shift.

Pennon runs the hiring loop for front-of-house, line cooks, dishwashers, and shift leads — across high-churn weeks and same-day no-show rushes — with tipped-vs-non-tipped fairness screening and a compliance PDF plus rejection-analytics signals that hold up under state labor review.

  • Multi-board posting
  • Tipped vs. non-tipped fairness aware
  • Compliance PDF + rejection analytics

What this changes for restaurant hiring

Three capabilities tuned for
shift-shaped, tipped-aware hiring.

Each capability stands on its own — adopt one, adopt all three — and they share the same audit trail, the same gates, and the same per-role artifacts ready to hand a state labor-office inspector.

F1

Multi-board posting

One role, every board — even the niche job boards your line cook reads.

Distribute a FOH server, bartender, line cook, dishwasher, prep, or shift-lead role across LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, and the hospitality-specific boards your team actually hires from — with per-channel pacing and anti-suppression throttling so high-volume same-week openings stay consistent across hundreds-of-applicants days.

F2

Tipped vs. non-tipped fairness

A screening layer that reads tipped shifts, not just pay rate.

The screening layer treats tipped (FOH server, bartender, host, busser) and non-tipped (line, dish, prep) shifts as distinct scheduling shapes. EEOC four-fifths rule is applied per tipped cohort, so a wage-and-hour complaint does not force a re-screen of the hire — the audit row already shows which cohort the gate ran against.

F3

Compliance PDF + rejection analytics

A compliance PDF and rejection signals ready for state labor review.

Every automated gate ships with per-criterion inputs, model version, reviewer, and the disparate-impact cohort. The downloadable compliance PDF is city-and-state ready, and the rejection-analytics dashboard surfaces a pattern of last-minute no-shows before the audit row is written — so a wage-and-hour review finds the same evidence you do.

Built where every shift hire has to defend itself

Restaurant operators where no-shows and tipped fairness decide the week.

FOH + BOH · tipped-aware · compliance PDF ready for state review

4+ boards
Same-week distribution to FOH + BOH boards
Fairness
Tipped vs. non-tipped cohorts split per screen
0
Black-box decisions in the audit log

Talk to a human

See Pennon on your open FOH/BOH role.

We'll walk through the loop on a role you actually have open this week, configure the tipped-vs-non-tipped fairness screen for your FOH/BOH mix, and show you the compliance PDF and rejection-analytics row before you commit.

Private launch · public sign-up

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Get launch updates — no spam, single email when we go live. We onboard teams in cohorts so the first hundred get time with us, not a ticket queue.

  • Onboarding prioritized for high-volume FOH/BOH teams.
  • Tipped vs. non-tipped fairness screen on day one.
  • Same-week sign-in for floor managers — no two-week ramp.

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