How Gallipos Apeldoorn Plans Every Department in One Rota
Gallipos, the Turkish restaurant on the Hoofdstraat in Apeldoorn, is open from ten in the morning until ten at night. That's twelve hours of pide, dürüm and mixed grill, with a kitchen that never stops and a floor that fills up, empties and fills again. The people at the grill and the people serving tables work in the same building, but their days look nothing alike.
With Session Pilot, Gallipos plans each department on its own terms, in one rota.
One restaurant, several teams
The kitchen starts early with prep and peaks when orders stack up. Service follows the guests, with separate lunch and dinner waves. Takeaway adds a third stream of its own. So "how many people do we need on Friday?" has one answer per department, not one for the whole restaurant.
A flat list hides the gaps
A spreadsheet can show that six people work Saturday evening. It can't show that five are in service and only one is in the kitchen. The total looks fine, and the problem only appears when the orders do. The hard part was never the headcount. It's having the right people in the right place.
Every employee belongs to a department
In Session Pilot, Gallipos sets up its departments and links each employee to the one they work in. The team list now mirrors how the restaurant is organised, roles stay attached to each person, and new hires slot straight into their department.
Building the rooster, department by department
Each department gets its own shifts, planned around its own busy moments. The manager sees the whole week in one view, so a thin Saturday in the kitchen shows up while the rota is still a draft. Availability sits next to each employee, and managers can build the week by hand or describe what they need in plain language and let Session Pilot generate a first version.
Everyone knows where to be
Once published, every employee sees their own shifts, department and times in the app. Swaps and sick calls are handled in the rota itself, so it always shows what's really happening.
Worked hours, organised the same way
Employees clock in and out with a QR code, and Session Pilot turns those hours into timesheets automatically. Because every employee belongs to a department, Gallipos can see who worked, how long, and where.
The result
A rota that matches how the restaurant actually runs. For Gallipos, several departments don't mean several schedules. It's one restaurant, one rooster, and everyone in the right place.
Gallipos in Apeldoorn uses Session Pilot to manage its departments, plan the weekly rota and record worked hours. If your kitchen and your floor run on different rhythms, Session Pilot was built to plan them together.
