Drag-and-drop scheduling that knows who's available, who's trained, and who's already at overtime. When you publish, everyone gets notified. In-app, email, or text.
Send one link. Your new employee walks through W-4, I-9, direct deposit, policy acknowledgments, document uploads, and equipment sizing, all from their phone.
Mount a tablet by the kitchen. Staff clock in with a PIN, see their tasks for the shift, check the prep list, and read any new announcements. No app download needed.
Track every item across every unit. When stock hits par, Hardt generates a purchase order to the right vendor at the right price. Prep lists build themselves from what's on hand.
| Item | On Hand | Par | Order | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken Breast 40lb | 8 lb | 40 lb | 32 lb | Auto |
| Romaine Hearts cs/6 | 1 cs | 4 cs | 3 cs | Auto |
| Tomatoes 25lb | 12 lb | 25 lb | 13 lb | Auto |
| Heavy Cream qt | 2 qt | 8 qt | 6 qt | Auto |
When an order arrives, your team checks it in against the original PO. Quantities, weights, and prices get verified on the spot. Your cost data updates in real time — no double entry, no spreadsheet reconciliation afterward.
| Item | Ordered | Received | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken Breast 40lb | 32 lb | 32 lb | ✓ Match |
| Romaine Hearts cs/6 | 3 cs | 3 cs | ✓ Match |
| Heavy Cream qt | 6 qt | 4 qt | ⚠ Short |
| Tomatoes 25lb | 13 lb | 13 lb | ✓ Match |
my.hardt.app gives every employee their own portal — no app to download, no IT setup. They see their schedule, request time off, pick up open shifts, check pay stubs, update their contact info, and stay on top of certifications, all without calling a manager.
Upload your policies once. Hardt tracks who's read them, who hasn't, and sends reminders. When a food handler's card or alcohol permit is expiring, you know 30 days out, not the day of.
Add your locations, departments, and roles. Configure operating hours, task templates, and inventory pars. Takes about an hour.
Enter employees or send them an onboarding link. They fill out their own W-4, I-9, policies, and documents from their phone. You review and approve.
Publish schedules. Tasks generate themselves. POs fire when stock runs low. Deliveries get checked in and costs update automatically. Expiring docs trigger alerts. Your team manages their own schedule from their phone. You manage exceptions, not everything.
When inventory hits your reorder point, a PO generates for the right vendor with the right items at the last negotiated price. Approve or let it fly.
Prep lists build themselves every morning based on current inventory levels and your par settings. Your kitchen knows exactly what to prep before they ask.
Daily opening tasks, closing tasks, line checks, temp logs. Generated from templates every day at the right time. Assigned to the right shift. Tracked to completion.
Food handler's cards, alcohol permits, certifications. Tracked with automatic reminders at 30, 14, 7, and 1 day. The employee and manager both know.
When a shift opens up on a published schedule, Hardt notifies every eligible employee in that department who's available and not already scheduled.
Invoices arrive from your vendors and Hardt files them automatically. Each line item gets matched to inventory, last cost gets updated in real time, and variances get flagged before they become problems. No manual data entry. No spreadsheets.
The moment a delivery is confirmed, on-hand quantities update and invoice costs flow straight into your COGS. No reconciliation later. No manual step in between.
Publish a policy update and hardt. tracks who's read it and who hasn't. Reminders go out automatically. You get a signed audit trail without chasing anyone.
At the end of every shift, your labor percentage for the day is calculated automatically — against revenue, by department, by role. No spreadsheet required.
In 1888, Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart opened a café in Philadelphia. By 1902, they'd introduced something the country had never seen: the Automat. A self-service restaurant where customers dropped a coin into a glass-front compartment and pulled out a freshly prepared meal. Fast. Affordable. Futuristic.
It worked because of what happened behind the wall. Centralized kitchens. Standardized recipes. Ruthless quality control. The system made the experience possible, not the other way around.
Horn & Hardart became the largest restaurant chain in the world. Hundreds of locations. 800,000 customers a day. They didn't just open restaurants. They modernized the entire concept of eating out.
Fast food eventually overtook them. By the 1990s the brand was gone. But what they proved still holds: automation doesn't replace hospitality. It makes it scalable.
Hardt picks up where they left off.
Horn & Hardart used mechanical automation to reinvent how restaurants serve customers. Hardt uses software automation to reinvent how restaurants operate. Scheduling, onboarding, inventory, compliance, task management, kiosk. Front of house and back of house, under one platform.
The problems are different now. Nobody needs a coin-operated sandwich dispenser. But operators are still buried in manual work that systems should handle. Spreadsheet schedules. Paper onboarding. Inventory by memory. Compliance in a filing cabinet.
Hardt is a revival of the idea that started it all: that a well-built system frees people to focus on what actually matters. The food. The guests. The team.
New century. Better tools. Same belief that restaurants deserve real infrastructure.
Tell us a little about your restaurant. We'll get back to you with a real answer, not a calendar link.