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Free Restaurant Staff Scheduling Software

Rush hour at a quick-service restaurant isn’t one job, it’s four running at once: someone on the register, someone on the line, someone working the drive-thru window, and a shift lead who has to be on the floor the entire time the store is open — not just during the manager’s hours.

Optimizador de rutas gratis: mi planificador de repartos

Pasé más de veinte años construyendo modelos de optimización de rutas para empresas — flotas de reparto, distribución de alimentos, servicio en campo. Esos modelos vivían en archivos de Excel que solo yo podía correr, así que hace unos meses decidí publicarlos en la web, gratis. En este artículo te cuento qué debería tener un optimizador de rutas gratis de verdad, qué opciones existen hoy, y qué hace el mío distinto — con sus límites incluidos, porque también los tiene.

Onfleet Alternative: A Free Route Optimizer, No Minimum

Onfleet is one of the few routing and delivery platforms that actually publishes its pricing, which I respect. But the number itself, $599 a month to start, before you’ve routed a single stop, is exactly why people go looking for an onfleet alternative. I build optimization software for a living, and the free tool below solves the same routing math without a monthly minimum.

onfleet alternative — free route optimizer results map with optimized routes

Free Hotel Staff Scheduling Software

A hotel front desk never closes, which means someone senior has to be reachable at 3am just as much as at 3pm — even though the person who can actually approve a comp or handle an angry guest at 3am is a different kind of role than the night auditor working the desk. Housekeeping runs on its own tight window, and maintenance mostly doesn’t need covering overnight at all.

Why a Tiny Scheduling MILP Took Minutes: CBC vs HiGHS

My generalized staff scheduler is a small optimization problem: eight people, a week of half-hour slots, about five thousand binary variables. By modern standards that is tiny. So when it started taking minutes to solve — or worse, returning nothing at all — my first reaction was disbelief. This post is the story of CBC vs HiGHS on that exact model, and the four fixes that actually mattered. If your PuLP + CBC model is grinding, some of these will probably apply to you too.