# Jordan Boesch

> Jordan Boesch is the Saskatoon-based founder and CEO of 7shifts, a restaurant scheduling, payroll, and team management platform. His work began with software for his father’s Quiznos restaurants, grew alongside his career as a developer, and became a restaurant-focused company officially founded in 2014. His public interviews emphasize useful products, employee feedback, and building a company from Saskatchewan.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at 7shifts
- **Organizations:** 7shifts
- **Education:** Multimedia development diploma, Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology
- **Known for:** Built 7shifts from a tool for his father into a restaurant-focused software business., Led 7shifts during its US$80 million Series C in February 2022., 7shifts’ current company page reports more than 55,000 restaurants served.

## Career timeline

- **2006-2007 (approximate)** — In a 2025 interview, recalled building an early schedule-sharing tool for his father’s Quiznos restaurants around this time.
- **2008-2010** — Studied at Algonquin College in Ottawa; his LinkedIn profile lists these attendance years.
- **2013** — Left software employment to work on 7shifts full-time and attended a Bay Area accelerator with his co-founders.
- **2014** — Official company history dates 7shifts’ founding to 2014.
- **2022** — 7shifts announced a US$80 million Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 on February 10.
- **2024** — Discussed his developer-to-CEO transition with Mark MacLeod and restaurant employee feedback with Shawn Walchef.
- **2025** — Appeared on The Product Market Fit Show and discussed the company’s workforce management report on Running Restaurants.
- **2026** — Published a CEO note with 7shifts’ employee survey; the company’s Employee Training product moved out of beta in September.

## Achievements

- Built 7shifts from a tool for his father into a restaurant-focused software business.
- Led 7shifts during its US$80 million Series C in February 2022.
- 7shifts’ current company page reports more than 55,000 restaurants served.
- Created the open-source Gritter notification plugin for jQuery.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — 7shifts’ dated product update confirms Employee Training moved out of beta and became available on its Premium plan.
- **2026-08** — Appeared on Digital Hospitality to discuss ongoing restaurant training and microlearning.
- **2026-03** — 7shifts’ 2026 employee study collected 1,074 U.S. restaurant-worker responses in February-March; Boesch’s accompanying CEO note urges operators to ask rather than assume what teams need.
- **2025-04** — Discussed the early side project, customer acquisition, and partnerships on The Product Market Fit Show.

## Links

- Website: https://www.7shifts.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-boesch/
- GitHub: https://github.com/jboesch

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Last updated: 2026-10-20