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Cooper for restaurant and food-service
restaurant recruiting software.Every applicant screened before the next service.
Cooper combines your applicant tracking system with an AI team that screens every application for the realities of restaurant work, interviews the people who fit, and gives managers a clear shortlist before the next service.
Trusted by teams hiring for restaurants
Teams in restaurant and food-service use Cooper to keep the recruiting pipeline moving across single and multi-location operations.
THE RESTAURANT AND FOOD-SERVICE HIRING CHALLENGE
Restaurant hiring breaks when an empty rota becomes tomorrow's service problem.
A no-show can change the whole shift
Managers are juggling service, rota changes and applications at the same time. A candidate who is ready to work can disappear while the inbox waits.
Front of house and kitchen need different signals
A CV rarely tells you whether someone can handle a dinner rush, a prep list, a late close or a guest-facing conversation.
The best applicants have options
Restaurant candidates often apply to several venues at once. A fast, structured first response is part of the hiring experience — and often the difference between a filled rota and another open shift.
THE PLATFORM
A restaurant ATS with an AI screening team built in
Scout checks availability, service context and role fit. Robin interviews candidates around their schedule, so managers can focus on the people who are ready for the floor or the kitchen.
Screening that works around service
The platform handles the repeatable reading and first conversation while your managers handle what only they can judge: the team fit, the food and the guest experience.
- Scout checks every application against your role and availability criteria
- Robin asks the practical questions a shift manager needs answered
- HR gets one summary per candidate, ready for a working interview
- Coo helps source people for hard-to-fill shifts and locations
THE IMPACT
What changes when every restaurant applicant gets read
100%
Of applicants checked for the requirements of the role
24/7
Interview availability for candidates outside service hours
1
Clear candidate summary before the manager calls
HOW IT WORKS
How an empty rota becomes a ready-to-meet shortlist
From a single open shift to a multi-location hiring campaign, the workflow keeps running while the restaurant is serving guests.
- 1
Applications arrive from your usual channels
Candidates apply through your site, job boards, referrals or the ATS you already use.
- 2
Scout checks the shift essentials
Availability, location, service or kitchen experience and the requirements you set are compared consistently.
- 3
Robin runs a structured first conversation
Candidates answer the questions that matter for the shift, from preferred hours to the pace and setting they know.
- 4
Managers invite the right people to meet
The summary makes the next step obvious: a call, a trial shift or a manager interview with context already in hand.
See what Scout and Robin hand back on an open restaurant and food-service role.
Cooper vs screening restaurant applicants between services
Cooper
Disconnected process
Availability
Asked and recorded consistently
Scattered across messages
Time to first response
Minutes
When a manager gets a break
Candidate experience
Structured and responsive
Different for every location
What managers receive
One comparable summary
CVs, notes and memory
Hard-to-fill shifts
Sourcing added when needed
Another manual search
Cooper
Disconnected process
Availability
Asked and recorded consistently
Scattered across messages
Time to first response
Minutes
When a manager gets a break
Candidate experience
Structured and responsive
Different for every location
What managers receive
One comparable summary
CVs, notes and memory
Hard-to-fill shifts
Sourcing added when needed
Another manual search
HIRING ENVIRONMENTS
Built for every restaurant hiring environment
Keep one hiring standard across a neighbourhood restaurant, a multi-site group or a fast-growing franchise.
WORKS WITH YOUR ATS
Add AI screening to the restaurant and food-service ATS you already use
You do not need to replace your system. Use Cooper as your ATS, or point Scout and Robin at the one your team already runs — applications sync in, and candidate summaries and interview evidence sync back.
If you already use an ATS
Use our AI agents Coo, Scout, and Robin to save hours of recruiting work while continuing to manage hiring in your existing ATS.
RESTAURANT AND FOOD-SERVICE TEAMS
A recruiting workflow that keeps pace with restaurant and food-service
Cooper does what they promise – reliably, quickly, and without fuss. That's rare in recruiting tech, and we appreciate it.
Andreas Friedmann
Director Sales and Business Development — Breitseite GmbH
Cooper was almost self-explanatory from day one — barely any onboarding needed. It's given us real time savings and a much clearer overview of our hiring process. For a mid-sized team like ours, it's a great solution.
Florian Richter
CEO — Boda Borg Germany
Cooper helped us quickly find qualified freelancers while making the entire hiring process simple and efficient.
Cora Lode
Owner — Cora Lode Interiors
Cooper has become an essential part of our hiring process. It's intuitive, saves us time, and helps us quickly find qualified candidates—with outstanding support whenever we need it.
Sibylle Schmidt
Owner — Steuerberatung Schmidt
Cooper does what they promise – reliably, quickly, and without fuss. That's rare in recruiting tech, and we appreciate it.
Andreas Friedmann
Director Sales and Business Development — Breitseite GmbH
Cooper was almost self-explanatory from day one — barely any onboarding needed. It's given us real time savings and a much clearer overview of our hiring process. For a mid-sized team like ours, it's a great solution.
Florian Richter
CEO — Boda Borg Germany
Cooper helped us quickly find qualified freelancers while making the entire hiring process simple and efficient.
Cora Lode
Owner — Cora Lode Interiors
Cooper has become an essential part of our hiring process. It's intuitive, saves us time, and helps us quickly find qualified candidates—with outstanding support whenever we need it.
Sibylle Schmidt
Owner — Steuerberatung Schmidt
Cooper does what they promise – reliably, quickly, and without fuss. That's rare in recruiting tech, and we appreciate it.
Andreas Friedmann
Director Sales and Business Development — Breitseite GmbH
Cooper was almost self-explanatory from day one — barely any onboarding needed. It's given us real time savings and a much clearer overview of our hiring process. For a mid-sized team like ours, it's a great solution.
Florian Richter
CEO — Boda Borg Germany
Cooper helped us quickly find qualified freelancers while making the entire hiring process simple and efficient.
Cora Lode
Owner — Cora Lode Interiors
Cooper has become an essential part of our hiring process. It's intuitive, saves us time, and helps us quickly find qualified candidates—with outstanding support whenever we need it.
Sibylle Schmidt
Owner — Steuerberatung Schmidt
Cooper does what they promise – reliably, quickly, and without fuss. That's rare in recruiting tech, and we appreciate it.
Andreas Friedmann
Director Sales and Business Development — Breitseite GmbH
Cooper was almost self-explanatory from day one — barely any onboarding needed. It's given us real time savings and a much clearer overview of our hiring process. For a mid-sized team like ours, it's a great solution.
Florian Richter
CEO — Boda Borg Germany
Cooper helped us quickly find qualified freelancers while making the entire hiring process simple and efficient.
Cora Lode
Owner — Cora Lode Interiors
Cooper has become an essential part of our hiring process. It's intuitive, saves us time, and helps us quickly find qualified candidates—with outstanding support whenever we need it.
Sibylle Schmidt
Owner — Steuerberatung Schmidt
Security & data protection
Candidate data handled with the care restaurant and food-service hiring requires
Data stored in Europe
Your data lives on European servers and never leaves.
GDPR ready
Built to meet European data protection requirements from day one.
Never used to train AI
Your hiring data and candidate information stays yours — always.
Access controls
Role-based permissions for every member of your team.
Encryption
All data protected in transit and at rest.
Audit logs
A full record of every change made to your data.
Restaurants recruiting software, explained
What teams ask before they hand restaurant and food-service application screening to AI.
- Restaurant recruiting software helps operators hire front-of-house, kitchen and management staff across locations. Cooper combines an ATS with AI screening so every applicant is assessed for availability, experience and role fit before the manager spends time on a call.
- Yes. Availability is part of the criteria you set for each role. Robin can ask follow-up questions and return the answer in the candidate summary so managers do not need to reconstruct it from messages.
- Yes. Create separate criteria and interview questions for servers, hosts, chefs, kitchen assistants, bartenders and managers. The workflow stays consistent while the questions remain role-specific.
- Yes. Keep a common screening standard for the group and add location-specific requirements, schedules or interview questions where needed.
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