The Best Rostering App for Australian Hospitality Groups
Most rostering apps are built for one venue running one way. Here's what to ask before you commit, especially if you run more than one site.
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The Kaslu Work Blog
Guides to rosters, clock-ins and timesheets for Australian pubs, restaurants and cafés, plus our weekly build log of what we’ve shipped.
Christmas public holiday rostering in hospitality 2026: Boxing Day and the 28 December substitute day
Christmas 2026 gives venues in NSW, Queensland, WA and the ACT three public holidays in four days. Here are the dates, what the Hospitality Award pay guide says they cost, and how to roster the week.
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Minimum Shift Length and Breaks Under the Hospitality Award
The Hospitality and Restaurant awards both set a minimum shift length for casual and part-time staff, and a break you can't roster around. Here's what each actually requires.
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Casual, part-time or full-time: rostering under the Hospitality Award
The Hospitality Award treats casual, part-time and full-time staff differently on the roster, and the paperwork for part-timers trips up more venues than the pay rates do.
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The right to disconnect and your roster: what hospitality managers can still send after hours
The right to disconnect now covers small venues too, and rosters are where it bites. Which after-hours messages are fine, which to hold until morning, and how to stop deciding at 10pm.
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How to Stop Buddy Punching at Your Venue
Buddy punching happens because most clock-in systems can't tell who actually tapped the button. Here's how to close that gap without turning your venue into a surveillance project.
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How to roster a pub for a busy Friday night
A Friday night roster only works if it matches the shift you're actually running. Here's the structure I'd use: sections, peaks, overlap, and the checks before you publish.
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How Kaslu Work got its name (it started with my mum and a bag of cashews)
Two engineers, one rostering app for hospitality, and a name that came from my mum asking for cashews. Here's where Kaslu Work came from and who's building it.
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Geofenced clock-in for hospitality venues: how it works and how to set it up
A geofence tells you where a phone was when someone tapped Clock in. Here's what that proves, what it doesn't, and how to draw a boundary that fits the way your venue actually starts a shift.
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Build log, week 5: drag, drop, and who can actually work
Trading hours per venue, staff availability from the phone, shifts you can drag between sections or move with the keyboard, and a list of who's free to fill an empty shift.
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Build log, week 4: hospitality, a new staff app, and rows that are places
We moved Kaslu Work to Australian hospitality, rebuilt the staff app around the clock-in, and laid the roster out by the bar, the floor and the kitchen instead of by person.
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Build log, weeks 2 and 3: no signal, night shifts and a quieter dashboard
A clock-in made with no signal is now held and sent later, a 10pm to 2am shift stays on the night it belongs to, and the dashboard stopped treating a slow day as an emergency.
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