Describe your open roles and shifts. Makeform creates a mobile restaurant application with role-specific questions, weekly availability, experience, and references.
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Sample prompts for restaurant hiring
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Audience
Front-of-house applicants for guest-facing shifts
Format
Mobile application with availability grid
Prompt size
222 chars
Example application structure
Mobile application with availability grid
Which front-of-house role are you applying for?
Restaurant and guest-service experience
Lunch and dinner availability by day
Relevant credentials and expiration dates
Tell us about handling a busy service
Suggested routing tags
Front of house
Back of house
Manager review
Ask for availability by day and shift so managers can compare coverage needs.
Step 1
Apply
candidate chooses a role and shares experience
Step 2
Check coverage
manager compares availability with open shifts
Step 3
Review
role answers and references stay together
Step 4
Follow up
qualified applicants move to scheduling
Built for restaurant hiring
A résumé rarely answers whether someone can close Friday or work sauté. A focused application gathers those details before follow-up.
Use consistent choices for breakfast, lunch, dinner, opening, and closing so managers can spot coverage gaps.
Show server scenarios to front-of-house applicants and station questions to cooks through conditional paths.
Tag applications by role and notify the chef, bar manager, or general manager.
One link for the whole restaurant
Publish one entry point or separate versions for each department.
Capture guest-service experience, point-of-sale familiarity, beverage knowledge, and shift availability.
Ask cooks about stations, techniques, equipment, and relevant credentials; shorten the path for dish staff.
Collect bar experience, relevant credentials, late-night availability, systems used, and a guest scenario.
Request examples of shift leadership, coaching, scheduling, and opening or closing.
From opening to applicant inbox
Start with open positions and shifts, then refine what managers need before an interview.
List the roles, days, and service periods with staffing gaps.
Add your stations and shifts, remove unused questions, and set required answers by role.
Share the link on a careers page, listing, window sign, or QR code.
Send each response to the appropriate reviewer and a shared spreadsheet.
Online form vs paper application
An online form stays available after hours and records role, availability, and experience consistently.
Field guide
Build around role fit, schedule coverage, relevant experience, and the next reviewer.
Candidate basics
Collect contact information, location, and desired role. Keep the opening short for mobile applicants.
Schedule fit
Collect availability by service period, including opening, daytime, dinner, closing, and weekends.
Relevant experience
Ask for concise examples of service volume, stations, preparation duties, leadership, or customer service.
Role-specific skills
Reveal focused questions from the selected role instead of showing every applicant the same long form.
Credentials and screening
Ask for relevant credential type and expiration date, then review questions for your location.
References and acknowledgment
Collect professional references and an acknowledgment that the applicant reviewed their answers.
Related hiring tools
Connect applications, availability, interview scheduling, reviewer notes, and onboarding.
Create a broader application for restaurant and non-restaurant positions.
Open toolCollect current team availability in a consistent weekly format before managers prepare upcoming schedules.
Open toolOffer interview windows and collect candidate scheduling details after an application moves forward.
Open toolGive chefs and managers a shared scorecard for recording structured notes after each conversation.
Open toolGather the operational information your team needs when a selected candidate begins onboarding.
Open toolRequest standardized candidate information for a recruiting pipeline that spans multiple roles or locations.
Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for owners, chefs, and managers setting up an online hiring intake.
Include contact details, role, location, experience, shift availability, start date, relevant credentials, work history, and references. Use conditional sections by position and review the questions before publishing.
Use choices for each day and service period: opening, breakfast, lunch, dinner, and closing. Ask about weekends, holidays, start date, and constraints so managers can compare schedules.
Yes. Use a role selector and conditional sections for front of house, kitchen, bar, and management. Keep contact, availability, work history, and references shared.
Yes. Share the link on listings, careers pages, signs, or QR codes. Use checkboxes, limit long answers, and preview it on a small screen.
Yes. Route by role or location. Kitchen applications can notify the chef, server applications the front-of-house lead, and management applications the general manager. A shared sheet can show the pipeline.
Ask when a credential is relevant to the role and location. Collect its type, expiration date, and an in-progress option. Your team should choose questions that match applicable policies and requirements.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and accept applications without a form or response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Use structured choices for role, location, shifts, stations, and credentials. Reserve long answers for examples, route by department, and keep core questions consistent.
Turn open shifts into a clear application path.
