Hospitech.
An empty bar before opening, chalkboards still listing last night's taps

Software built behind the bar, not in a boardroom.

Rosters, clock-ins, hiring, gift vouchers and food-safety records — built by a general manager who needed them at 6am. Six venues run on them today. Most of it is free, and the limits are published up front.

Six venues use these tools every day. Four are mine; two are paying clients. Nothing here is a pitch deck — it's what I use to open the doors.

Running today in
  • Loaf'd Swords
  • Loaf'd Ashbourne
  • Loaf'd Drogheda
  • The Breakroom
  • The Arch Bar
  • The Old Schoolhouse

The Hospitech Suite

Manage your staff in one place.
Onboard once — every module already knows them.

HR documents, clock-in and timesheets, holiday and roster planning, HACCP records and staff training — all under one roof. Choose the modules that suit your business, add the rest whenever you're ready, and never enter a staff member twice.

Hospitech Time Rosters · clock-in · timesheets
  • Build the roster once, then copy it forward week to week
  • Staff clock in on a tablet by the door — works offline, syncs when the wifi returns
  • Timesheets reconcile the clocks against the roster with your break rules applied
  • Exports a payroll CSV your accountant will actually accept

Better with

  • With Roster & Holiday Planner — approved leave lands straight on the roster and into pay
  • With HR — pay rates, start dates and entitlements arrive already filled in
Free forever under 20 staff Founding 50 venues get 100
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Roster & Holiday Planner Time off · approvals · the year at a glance
  • Staff request time off from their phone — no login, no app to install
  • Managers approve or decline in one place, with a running balance
  • Conflict rules stop you signing off two chefs for the same week
  • The whole year’s leave visible before you promise anyone anything

Better with

  • With Time — approved leave writes itself onto the roster and into the timesheet
  • On its own — you keep the calendar here and enter the leave into pay yourself
Priced by size, never per head
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Hospitech HR Onboard to offboard
  • Onboard a starter once: details, rate, start date, documents, signed contract
  • Signed on a phone with our own signing — no per-envelope fee every time someone joins
  • Policies and documents kept against each employee, with read receipts
  • One leaver action: access revoked, record closed, statement of service sent

Better with

  • With Time — the rate and start date you entered once drive the timesheet and pay
  • With Roster & Holiday Planner — entitlement is set at hire, not worked out later
  • With Training and HACCP — a starter is assignable the day they’re onboarded
Priced by size, never per head
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Hospitech HACCP Food-safety records
  • Fridge and freezer temperatures, deliveries, cooking, cooling and cleaning
  • Completed on a tablet by the door, with a nightly manager sign-off
  • Alerts when a check is missed or a reading is out of range
  • An EHO pack that assembles itself from the records you already keep

Better with

  • With Training — the EHO pack proves who was trained, not just what was checked
  • With Time and HR — checks are signed by real staff from the same list, no re-entry
Priced by size, never per head
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Hospitech Training Courses & certificates
  • Courses staff work through on their phones, module by module
  • Food safety, allergens, fire, manual handling, alcohol service, H&S and GDPR
  • Quizzes with a pass mark, and certificates issued automatically
  • Expiry chased before it lapses — including certificates from other providers

Better with

  • With HACCP — training records land in the food safety plan and the EHO pack
  • With HR — a new starter is assigned their induction the day they’re onboarded
Priced by size, never per head
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Take one, take several, take the lot. Sign up through whichever module you came for — the rest switch on later from inside your dashboard, and adding one never means re-entering your staff.

Also from Hospitech

Three that stand on their own. These aren’t staff tools — they point outward, at the customer.

Staff’d

Hiring & job posts Live Its own brand

Post a job, take applications through your own careers page, and manage every applicant in one pipeline. Built because agency fees and job-board credits are a tax on an industry that hires constantly and cheaply.

Local Vouchers

Gift vouchers & redemption Live

Sell gift vouchers from your own site. The customer pays by card, the money lands in your Stripe account the same as any other sale, and your staff redeem by scanning a QR at the till — no holding your cash for a month.

2% + €1.50 per voucher You keep the rest

Hospitech Engage

Comps, sweeps & footfall

Run a competition that fills a quiet night. Last-man-standing, score predictors and prize draws, branded as yours, free to enter — and every entrant leaves you a contact you keep. Prizes pay out in your own vouchers, so the winnings get spent across your own bar rather than walking out as cash.

Built from comps we already run: 246 entrants and €4,400 through the door on hand-run versions this summer, before any of it was a product.

Built for our own venues first

Order books with price-change alerts, financial dashboards joining sales, wages and invoices, supplier ordering — the tools that started all this, running six venues every day. They're not for sale yet; they're the reason to trust the ones that are.

How free works

Published here on day one, before there's anyone to spring it on. If the price ever moves, you'll have read about it here first — that's the whole point of writing it down this early.

Now — open Founding 50

Fifty hand-picked venues, free forever, up to 100 staff. Written into the terms, not promised in an email. You help shape it; that's the deal.

Then — everyone Free to 20 staff

Free forever, for anyone, up to 20 staff. No card, no trial clock counting down, nothing to cancel. Most small venues never leave this rung.

Later — only if asked Flat tiers

Bigger groups, flat pricing by size — roughly €19 / €39 / €79, and only if venues actually ask for it. Never per-head: charging per person punishes you for hiring.

  • Over the limit just stops you adding staff 21. It never locks the tool, hides your data, or emails you a countdown.
  • Export is free, always, including on the way out. Attendance and pay are statutory records. Holding them hostage should be illegal.
  • Free is not a trial. There's no card on file to quietly start charging when a year is up.
  • Paid things are named and optional. €9.95 a month to jump the support queue. €299 if you want me to set it all up for you. That's the list.
Apply for the Founding 50 One email about your venue. Fifty places, then it closes.

“I've been the venue that got the renewal email.”

€120 a month for food-safety software that was, when you looked at it honestly, a form and a database. Clock-in software priced per head — which meant every time I hired a Saturday kid, my software bill went up.

I built replacements because I was already paying for the originals and could finally see what they actually were. Then something I didn't expect: the replacements were better. Not because I'm a better engineer — I'm not an engineer at all — but because I was the one using them at 6am, and I couldn't ship myself a bad workflow and go home.

That's the entire pitch. Every other hospitality tool is built by people who have read about your job.

A chef's hands working over a steel bowl on a service line

Or get something built

The tools above cover the problems every venue has. If you've got one they don't, I take on a small number of custom builds — the same way these started.

Custom builds

The thing your venue does that no product covers. Ordering, bookings, comps, reporting, whatever it is. Fixed scope, agreed before anything starts.

Brand & marketing

Brand books, menus, posters, and social that gets scheduled and actually posts. Built for venues that can't keep a designer on staff.

Websites

Sites that load fast, work on a phone, and take bookings or voucher sales without renting a platform to do it.

Tell me what you need You'll get me, not a form response.

Mark Kearns

General Manager · founder of Hospitech Solutions Ltd

There's no account manager and no ticket queue — there's me. That's the trade: you get the person who built the thing and who works your job, and in exchange you're dealing with one person's calendar. For most venues that's a better deal than a support tier. It's worth knowing up front either way.

Hospitech Solutions Ltd is a separate company from the venues I run. If you sign up, you're a customer of a software company — not a favour being done between friends of a pub.