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Who: the GM or whoever owns the schedule. When: once a week, before the week starts. Go to Schedule. You get a week grid per location — group rows by department, role, or time, or switch to Day view for hour-by-hour Coverage with peak markers. The week schedule grid

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The fast path

  1. Copy Last Week if your schedule is stable — then adjust.
  2. Or press Create Schedule and let the AI draft it: add constraints in plain English (“Sarah can’t work Sunday brunch. Extra bar coverage Friday night.”), press Generate. Skip the priority checkboxes for now — selections save, but weighting isn’t applied yet.
  3. The draft appears as a banner with the shift count and any overtime risks flagged. Accept schedule — or Revert to throw it away.
  4. Publish schedule — employees only see a published schedule, in the Garde app.

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Requests

View Requests shows the pending queue — Availability, Time Off, Shift Changes. Clear it before building the week, not after.

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Guardrails

In Schedule Settings, set your Daily Labor Budget % per day of week — the labor-cost target (as a share of forecasted sales) the AI schedules against.
Home and Labor read actual worked hours from your POS — not the schedule. The schedule is the plan you hold those pages against: the Budget vs Scheduled breakdown shows what the week costs before you commit.