Rota software for Belfast pubs, cafés and restaurants
Rotahr is rota software for Belfast pubs, cafés and restaurants that handles the rota, clock-in, food safety records, bookings and receipts in one app — flat €49 a month, VAT included, no per-staff pricing.
Belfast's food scene has grown quickly around the Cathedral Quarter and Titanic Quarter, trading on a mix of local regulars and a tourism trade built on the Titanic story and the Causeway Coastal route — and on employment rules that are genuinely distinct from the rest of the UK.
What Belfast venues are actually dealing with
- —Northern Ireland runs its own employment law rather than following Great Britain's directly — the Working Time Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 set a 20-minute break after six hours' continuous work and a 12-week averaging reference period, against 52 weeks in the rest of the UK, so a rota built on GB defaults can get entitlements wrong.
- —Food hygiene inspections follow the FHRS scheme used in England and Wales, run locally by Belfast City Council — the same 0–5 rating, different council and different inspection calendar to London or Manchester.
- —Titanic Quarter and city-centre tourism trade brings a strong summer peak on top of steady local trade, so staffing needs to flex without a full seasonal rebuild.
- —A growing but still tight independent scene means the person building the rota is usually also running the floor.
What's included
Rota & shifts
Build it once. Staff see it on their phone. Swaps come to you, not a group chat.
Clock in & out
On the phone, at the venue. Hours land straight into payroll, with UK Working Time Regulations rest-break rules built in.
HACCP records
Temperature checks, deliveries and cleaning lists. Print the lot for an inspector in one tap.
Bookings & floor plan
Your real table layout on screen. See what's free tonight at a glance.
Receipts & books
Photograph a receipt and it reads itself. Costs, VAT and P&L without the shoebox.
Stock & recipes
Know what a dish actually costs when supplier prices move.
Serving venues across Antrim
Rotahr is used by independent venues in and around Cathedral Quarter, Titanic Quarter, Lisburn Road, Stranmillis and Ballyhackamore. It runs in the browser and on iOS and Android, so there's nothing to install on a back-office machine.
Billed in GBP, VAT included, with UK bank holiday and Working Time Regulations rest-break rules built in.