Franchise head offices
Share standards once and follow their implementation at each location. Your manual, training and rollouts connect head office with partners and their teams.
Every shift. In sight.
Rota and time tracking – right in the app.
Actual screens from the Symiko demo system (German interface).
All in. All together.
Rota, time tracking, hygiene, manual and chat in one app. Head office, partners and teams work from the same standards – at every location.
MEET SYMIKOScan or request a demo hereFor your network. And everyone in it.
Setting standards, running company-owned stores or managing several franchise locations? Symiko connects your workflows. Each role gets the views and access it needs.
Company-owned chains
Your own stores, shared routines. Teams plan shifts and record daily work locally. Head office keeps track of tasks and exceptions.
Multi-unit partners
Manage your franchise locations through one login. Rotas, teams and records stay organised by location.
For example, café and restaurant groups, bakeries, quick-service restaurants and retail businesses with multiple locations. We’ll explore your workflows in the demo.
Your working day. In one app.
Explore the features for your day-to-day work. The app screens come from the Symiko demo system (German interface).
01 / Hygiene & records
Proof is created during the day.
Temperatures, cleaning, deliveries: the team records them on the device, with time and initials. The shift lead closes the day, head office sees deviations per location.
Included
Fridge, freezer, display, dishwasher: readings per time window; anything out of range becomes a deviation straight away.
- Before
- Paper HACCP logs and searching through binders
- With Symiko
- Daily close and inspection report at the push of a button
Screen 1 of 2: Hygiene today
Hygiene todayCompleted checks with value and time.
02 / Team & time, people and payroll
From the shift to the payslip.
Partners plan the week, the team swaps shifts and clocks in on their phones. At month-end, recorded hours are reviewed and approved. Only the respective employer sees personnel files and pay – in franchising that is the partner, not head office.
Included
Plan the week by department, prepare it as a draft, publish it, reuse templates, print it.
- Before
- Rotas as PDF by email, timesheets and paper personnel files
- With Symiko
- Rota, time clock and personnel file in one app
Screen 1 of 3: Rota
RotaShift swaps, my week, hours per person.
03 / Knowledge & communication
Standards arrive. And stay provable.
The manual sets the direction, the academy brings it to the team. Mandatory updates are confirmed instead of liked – head office sees the read status per location.
Included
Chapters with search, images and videos, versioned and printable; we import your existing content.
- Before
- WhatsApp groups, a manual PDF and training binders
- With Symiko
- Manual with acknowledgement, academy and a work chat
Screen 1 of 2: Manual
ManualSearchable, versioned, acknowledgement per chapter.
04 / Steering across all locations
Set it once. See what happens everywhere.
Rollouts, tasks and store checks run across all locations. The early warning shows where things are slipping. On staff matters head office only sees numbers per location – no names, no files.
Included
What is about to slip: missing monthly P&L, unread chapters, expiring certificates, overdue steps.
- Before
- Phone rounds, spreadsheets and chasing in the chat
- With Symiko
- Early warning, rollouts and store checks on one page
Screen 1 of 3: Early warning
Early warningWhat is about to slip, across all locations.
- No signalRead saved chapters, send hygiene entries later.
- Alerts on your phoneNew rota, shift swaps, tasks and chat as push notifications.
- German & EnglishInterface and manual in both languages.
- Any devicePhone, tablet at the counter, computer at head office.
Fewer separate tools.
Planning, knowledge and communication in one place. Which existing tools you replace depends on your workflows.
- Beforeseparate tool
Rota app
– bring together in Symiko - Beforeseparate tool
Time tracking
– bring together in Symiko - Beforeseparate tool
WhatsApp groups
– bring together in Symiko - Beforeseparate tool
Hygiene app
– bring together in Symiko - Beforeseparate tool
Screen software
– bring together in Symiko - Beforeseparate tool
Newsletter tool
– bring together in Symiko - Beforeseparate tool
Manual wiki
– bring together in Symiko - Beforeseparate tool
Spreadsheets
– bring together in Symiko
One invoice. Per location.
Billed per location, not per tool. All core modules are included in the location price.
When the inspector calls
Daily entries become an inspection report. Choose the period and prepare the records for the visit.
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Every day
Temperatures, deliveries and cleaning are recorded on the device, with time and initials. The shift lead closes the day.
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Unchangeable
No entry is ever overwritten. A correction is a new entry with a reason. Kept for ten years.
- 3
At the inspection
Inspection report as a PDF with checksum, or a link with QR code and access code, valid for 72 hours. The inspector needs neither an account nor the app.
Head office sees deviations per location, but no names.
Inspection report
Example- Location
- K-01 · Sample town
- Period
- 1 to 30 September
- Temperatures
- 186 entries, 0 open
- Deliveries
- 42 deliveries checked
- Deviations
- 2, both closed
- Daily closes
- 30 of 30
SHA-256 · 9f3a…c21e
Link valid for 72 hours · six-digit code
Read. Understood. Recorded.
Teams acknowledge important updates directly in the post. Each acknowledgement is recorded, and head office sees the read status per location.
Tap “Read & understood” in the preview.
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Sample Franchise
Head officeMFHead office01Ehrenfeld04Deutz09Nippes
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Sample Franchise
Head office · 2 hours ago
New cleaning rule for the ice cream machine
From this week, the ice cream machine is descaled on Thursdays instead of Mondays. Chapter 06 in the manual has been updated.
Head office read status41 of 50 locations
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Deutz location
Partner spotlight · yesterday
First location with a complete hygiene certificate
The whole team passed the course including the final test. The certificates are in their profiles.
Read by all locations
You’re all caught up.
The right data. For the right people.
Frankfurt
Developed in Germany. Servers and documents are in the EU, not in the US.
Database
Permissions are enforced in the database, not just in the interface.
Separated
Every franchise system is its own tenant. No system can see another’s data – we test this automatically with every change.
Provable
Acknowledgement with version number and timestamp; hygiene entries in a verification chain, kept for ten years.
How you get started
Symiko does a lot – you don't have to roll it all out at once. Start where it hurts most and expand step by step.
Billed per location and month, not per employee. We discuss the terms in the demo.
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Get to know us
Half an hour on screen. You tell us where it hurts – we show it right in Symiko and decide together where you start.
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We set things up
We create locations, roles and logins. We bring over what you have: your manual from PDF or wiki, your staff from Personio or Excel. Nothing gets retyped.
- 3
Start with one focus
Instead of rolling out everything at once, you pick one focus area – team & time or hygiene, for example.
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Expand step by step
Once the first focus is in place, you roll out the next modules. All core modules are included in the location price.
Where do you want to start?
Pick a focus area – you roll out the others later.
“We built Symiko because we needed it ourselves.”
Yusuf Gökce, founder
Rotas sent as PDFs by email, no overview, instructions lost in the WhatsApp history, temperature logs only searched for when the inspector is already in the store. Symiko is the app we wished we’d had.
Book a demo
We’ll show you Symiko in half an hour, using a chapter from your manual if you like. Then you decide. No newsletter, no sharing of your data.
Frequently asked questions
When can we start?
We take on new head offices in small groups so that setup goes smoothly. After the demo we give you a fixed start date.
What does it cost?
Billing is per location and month, not per employee. A location with twelve part-timers costs no more than one with three. All core modules are included in the location price; you can add individual extra modules if you need them. We discuss the terms in the demo.
How long are we tied in?
Not for long: Symiko can be cancelled monthly.
Do we have to retype our manual?
No. We import the content from PDFs, text files or your existing wiki and structure it into chapters. That is part of onboarding, and it is why the app looks like your system from day one.
Which tools can Symiko replace?
Symiko brings together rota planning, time tracking, work chat, your manual and hygiene. In the demo, we review which existing tools it can replace and what you still need.
Can our partners simply sign up?
No, and that is deliberate. Accounts are only created through head office’s invitation link. The database rejects any sign-up without a valid invitation.
Where is our data stored?
Servers and documents are in the EU, in Frankfurt, not in the US. Permissions are enforced in the database, not just in the interface.
Can we get our data back out?
Yes. Hours and payroll data export as a DATEV file, lists such as staff, hygiene overview or expenses as CSV, inspection reports as PDF. Everyone can download their own data at any time.