Applicant tracking system for restaurants and hospitality
Burnt out from trying to fill understaffed shifts?
Your recruiting efforts can do more for you. Expand your applicant pool, hire 90% faster, and get new employees on the floor in record time.
- Wake up to scheduled interviews
- Hire new employees in days, not Weeks
- Rest easy knowing compliance errors are a thing of the past
Restaurants that can’t meet demand lose 10-25% of gross revenue per store
Overwhelmed with admin tasks? Scrambling to fill understaffed shifts? Your restaurant recruiting needs a boost. Reach the right candidates, hire top talent 90% faster, and hit staffing goals with Fourth’s AI-powered applicant tracking and onboarding solution.
“PeopleMatter makes hiring less of a hassle for my HR team… the icing on top of that is just how effortless it is.”
— Katie Marzolf, PHR, Human Resources Director, Southwest Georgia Oil Company
Automate the tedious
Have every shift covered. Improve employee scheduling, automate tasks, and increase profitability with our easy-to-implement platform.
Never stop improving
Have every shift covered. Improve employee scheduling, automate tasks, and increase profitability with our easy-to-implement platform.
Grow with confidence
Have every shift covered. Improve employee scheduling, automate tasks, and increase profitability with our easy-to-implement platform.
What is an applicant tracking system?
- An applicant tracking system, or ATS, is a platform that helps you organize candidate information and manage hiring.
- Keep track of employee referrals, incentives, in-person and online interviews, and qualified candidates.
- With better organization, you can move high-quality candidates through the hiring pipeline quicker. Build a stronger team of restaurant employees—and a healthier business.
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Multi-Platform Job Postings
Stop limiting your visibility. Easily create new job postings, expand your talent pool, and amplify your reach via Indeed.
With Fourth’s mobile-first applications, top talent can apply without creating an account or uploading a resume. Improve your candidate experience—and watch applicant conversion rates grow.
Leverage AI instead of manager time
Give your recruitment strategy a competitive edge. Our exclusive partnership with TalentTrack gives you AI-powered programmatic bidding that automatically adjusts your ad spend to only promote jobs during the most favorable times of day. As a result:
- Managers spend less time running job posts
- Cost-per-hire decreases
- Cost-per-application decreases
- Pool of high-quality applicants increases
One-Click-Apply Enabled
With our data-driven direct-to-interview feature, candidates who meet your specific pre-screening criteria can automatically schedule interviews during their application process.
Leverage AI to automatically pre-screen restaurant talent when they open an application. Identify promising candidates early in the process, and let the best instantly schedule interviews based on your team’s availability.
Speed up your recruitment process while significantly reducing the workload that typically falls to restaurant managers. Instead, allow your team to focus on what they do best—running a successful restaurant.
Build your dream team
In the restaurant industry, involuntary turnover is on the rise for the first time since the pandemic. Find yourself rushing to staffing needs? You might be missing out on the best talent.
With Fourth’s automated hiring tool, you can hire efficiently without sacrificing quality. Tailor your applications with personality assessments and pre-screening questions to ensure every new hire adds unique value.
Increase responsiveness by 300% with Two-Way Texting
Restaurant and hospitality employees are 5X more likely to quit in their first 90 days when they experience miscommunication. Build a work environment grounded in communication, loyalty, and trust. Start strong by keeping candidates in the loop with two-way texting.
Candidates are 3x more likely to respond to text messages
Be the first to send an offer
Hire candidates in one click. Yep, that’s it. Because when there are more job openings than candidates, it pays to make the first offer.
Ditch paperwork & compliance woes
Hiring managers are busy. They don’t need to waste hours gathering forms and double-checking paperwork.
Simplify the onboarding process for good. In just a few taps, send new hires digital onboarding packets customized with the correct government forms. New staff members can complete the forms from their phone, boosting completion rates and keeping your business on the right side of the law.
You deserve a hiring solution that moves as quickly as your restaurant
With PeopleMatter, bring ease, speed, and intelligence to your hiring processes. Don’t just fill positions—create a powerhouse team that drives your restaurant’s success.
Workforce management software built for restaurants like yours
Everything you need to manage your restaurant's applicants, all in one platform.
Built for restaurants like yours
- Quick Service
- Full Service
- Cafés & Coffee Shops
- Bars & Breweries
- Pizzerias
- Juice Bars
- Pubs
- Bakeries
- Catering
Fourth’s Restaurant Operations Suite
Get everything you need for your restaurant operations in a single, smart hospitality workforce management platform.
Hire the best talent, first. Then get them onboarded and ready to delight guests.
- Reduce drop-off and increase applicant flow
- Generate increased app volume with Quick Apply
- Ditch the onboarding paperwork
Access labor-saving tech that forecasts demand and makes scheduling a breeze.
- Slash admin time with AI labor forecasting
- Integrate labor and time keeping
- Schedules from anywhere with our mobile app
- Stay compliant with labor laws
Unlock real-time visibility into daily operations and staff management.
- Manage your operations with manager logbook
- Gain complete operational insight from across stores
- Maintain brand standards across stores
Run payroll, manage tip distributions, and stay ahead of labor & wage compliance.
- Offload payroll and benefits administration
- Eliminate your dependency on cash with tip payouts
- Reduce benefits and insurance costs
Improve retention and engagement with distinct benefits and solutions.
- Access competitive benefits
- Offer your employees earned wage access
- Bank your unbanked with the Fuego Visa® Card
Frequently Asked Questions
How does an applicant tracking system (ATS) help me overcome labor shortages?
There are still far more job openings in hospitality than available workers. Not only that—we’re actually seeing a rise in turnover of frontline workers for the first time since the pandemic.
When you’re experiencing high turnover, it’s common to feel desperate to hire anyone, as long as you’re filling open positions. But this doesn’t help you hire the best people for the job.
That’s where an ATS comes in. An ATS can offer time-saving automation and AI tools that work behind the scenes to pre-screen candidates while they fill out applications. As a result, you hire faster than your competition next door. Not only that, but you also ensure your managers only spend time interviewing (and ultimately hiring) the very best talent.
How does an ATS help me source talent?
Our ATS makes it easy to broadcast your job openings to a large candidate pool. Thanks to free integrations with popular job boards and sites like Indeed and Snagajob, your postings will be visible everywhere job seekers look.
You’re not limited to job boards, either. With text-to-apply codes, our ATS makes it easy for walk-in candidates to move through the application process from their phone—or to share the application with their friends. And because our ATS was designed mobile-first and doesn’t require candidates to create an account or upload a resume, applicants are far more likely to complete the process in one effortless swoop. Simply put, we make it easy for candidates to apply.
Finally, our ATS comes with a custom career site built for your business. This page gives you plenty of space to discuss company culture and employee benefits—all top concerns of applicants in the hourly space. With their questions answered, candidates have more reasons to complete an application.
How can Fourth make onboarding more efficient for hiring managers?
In just a few clicks, hiring managers can send a complete onboarding packet to new hires. In turn, these hires can easily complete onboarding from their phones.
After the manager clicks “hire” in our applicant tracking system, a pre-populated email will display on the screen, complete with links to all required state and federal forms and any other forms or training materials you’d like to include. All managers have to do is click send. Then the onboarding packet is off. Your team never has to worry about gathering the correct documentation or double-checking compliance. It’s already handled.
How much faster can I hire with Fourth’s ATS?
Restaurants using Fourth’s ATS hire top talent 90% faster. Simple automations move candidates through the pipeline — from application to scheduled interview to offer — in days rather than weeks, without requiring managers to manually track and follow up with every candidate.
How does the direct-to-interview feature work?
Candidates who meet your pre-screening criteria can automatically schedule their own interview during the application process — no back-and-forth required. The system uses AI to pre-screen applicants as they apply, identifies the strongest candidates early, and lets them book a time based on your team’s live availability. Managers wake up to scheduled interviews rather than a pile of applications to sort through.
Where does Fourth post jobs and how does it expand my applicant pool?
Fourth’s ATS creates job postings that are distributed across multiple platforms — including Indeed and Snagajob — from a single place. A custom career site showcases your brand and benefits to candidates who want to know more before applying. Text-to-apply codes let walk-in candidates start an application on the spot from their phone, and candidates can even share the link with friends.
Do candidates need to create an account or upload a resume to apply?
No. Fourth’s mobile-first application is designed to remove friction — candidates can apply without creating an account or uploading a resume. This directly improves application completion rates and increases the total volume of candidates entering the pipeline.
How does Fourth’s AI reduce cost per hire?
Through an exclusive partnership with TalentTrack, Fourth uses AI-powered programmatic bidding that automatically adjusts ad spend to promote job postings only during the most favorable times of day. The result: managers spend less time running job posts, cost-per-hire decreases, cost-per-application decreases, and the pool of high-quality applicants grows — all without requiring manual campaign management.
How does two-way texting improve the hiring process?
Restaurant and hospitality employees are 5x more likely to quit in their first 90 days when they experience miscommunication. Two-way texting keeps candidates engaged and informed throughout the hiring process — and candidates are 3x more likely to respond to a text than an email. Starting the relationship with clear, responsive communication builds the foundation for retention before the first shift.
How does Fourth simplify new hire onboarding?
After clicking ‘hire,’ a pre-populated onboarding email is ready to send in seconds — complete with links to all required state and federal government forms, plus any additional training materials the operator wants to include. New hires complete everything from their phone. This eliminates the paperwork chase, ensures the correct compliance documentation is always included, and boosts completion rates by making the process mobile and frictionless.
How does Fourth help ensure I’m hiring the right people, not just the fastest available?
In a tight labor market, the pressure to fill open positions quickly can lead to poor hiring decisions. Fourth’s ATS lets operators tailor applications with personality assessments and pre-screening questions specific to their roles — ensuring every candidate is evaluated against the same criteria before reaching the interview stage. The result is a faster hiring process that doesn’t sacrifice quality for speed.
