10 restaurant LMS to elevate training

Mitti (by SafetyCulture) is the secret ingredient for success when training using a restaurant LMS. Its editable course library carries 1,000+ microlearning courses and features free content that you can customize according to your restaurant’s needs.

Mitti's courses focus on essential restaurant staff training topics like opening and closing restaurants and an HACCP-approved course on allergies and food intolerance. The courses are made by a team of expert instructional designers, so there’s no need to worry about their quality.

Want to make your own content? This restaurant training software’s creator tool allows you to design courses easily using its Create with AI feature. You can also choose from the 80+ ready-made templates available, so you won’t have to start from scratch when improving your team's skills and knowledge.

Mitti's gamification elements are unlike any other. Engage your teams in training with built-in games that allow them to tap and drag through training and celebrate milestones by awarding them with badges and banners through its achievements feature.

This mobile-first LMS also boasts powerful reporting and analytics capabilities that let you track compliance and use performance insights to see how your teams are doing, so you can enhance training as you go.

Key features:

• Editable course library with 1,000+ courses

• Training approved by industry leaders and made by expert instructional designers

• AI-powered course creation

• 80+ ready-made training templates

• Gamification

• Achievements (banners and badges)

• Reporting and analytics dashboard

Kiwi LMS is a training platform specifically designed for restaurants. Train your employees using easy-to-use content, quiz them using different question types, and incentivize them with certificates using this LMS.

You can choose between their ready-made courses, upload existing content, or create new ones with their in-built authoring tool. Plus, you can assign different user roles to every member of your team so no confusion comes with staff training.

Key features:

• Easy-to-use content, interactive quizzes, certification

• Ready-made courses, authoring tool

• User roles

Up next, AcademyOcean is another cloud-based LMS for restaurants. It features AI-generated learning content to help build courses, and it’s SCORM-compliant so you can upload existing training materials to the platform.

It also boasts scalability, allowing restaurants to have multiple portals to train diverse teams, and is kept secure with end-to-end data encryption and privacy protection.

Key features:

• AI-generated learning content

• SCORM-compliant

• Scalability

Edvance360 vows to improve service and standardize food safety and sanitation training through its LMS features. You can design learning paths tailored to the needs of your crew and deliver consistent training across franchises with this training solution.

It also has built-in content authoring, an analytics and reports dashboard, a social learning option, and an e-commerce feature that allows you to monetize courses with subscriptions or coupons.

Key features:

• Customized learning paths

• Built-in content authoring, analytics and reports, social learning

• Course monetization

Axonify is tailor-made for frontline workers, including teams in the restaurant industry. Its goal is to speed up your restaurant’s onboarding process and help you serve intuitive compliance training to your crew.

This restaurant training app uses AI-driven reinforcement learning to train your teams. You can also access real-time insights, so you can make data-driven decisions when it comes to improving your restaurant operations.

Key features:

• Made for frontline workers

• AI-driven reinforcement learning

• Real-time insights

Trainn hopes to improve customer experience and upskill employees through its mobile-ready, multi-language, and multiformat training content.

This LMS platform allows you to use different admin roles, customize learning paths, certify your staff, and track your training metrics in a single, zero-code LMS platform. While Trainn is a paid software, you can avail of its free trial and test its features to see if it fits your needs.

Key features:

• Mobile-ready and multiformat content

• Certification

• Personalized learning paths

Next on this list is Wisetail. It aims to help you get brand-loyal customers by being an all-in-one LMS with a data-driven admin dashboard and centralized communications feature that lets you easily share updates and answer questions from your teams.

Wisetail helps brands like Nobu and The Cheesecake Factory deliver engaging, bite-sized training content to their employees to help them improve operations.

Key features:

• Data-driven admin dashboard

• Centralized communications

• Bite-sized training

Trakstar Learn targets to build better training systems for restaurants. You can deliver courses online, edit them on the go, and create leaderboards with the help of this learning management platform.

It also focuses on enhancing how your teams communicate through automated email invitations, training reminders, and social learning features. You can also automatically enroll your entire team in training with just one click.

Key features:

• Leaderboards

• Automatic email invitations, training reminders, and enrollment

• Social learning

Innform prioritizes customization by allowing you to create unlimited courses that may include videos and images. It targets modern hospitality companies that are on the lookout to automate employee induction and certify teams.

The only downside is that their prices vary depending on the requirements and size of the company, so it isn’t the best option if you’re cutting costs. But it’s still a user-friendly course builder that’s SCORM-compliant and allows multilingual learning.

Key features:

• Unlimited course creation

• Certification

• SCORM-compliant

Nimble takes the last slot on this list with its easy-to-use features. As an LMS, it features comprehensive analytics and learner insights, with a multi-tiered site administration option that lets you assign roles effortlessly.

You can create free training materials for your restaurant staff with Nimble Author. But the entire LMS requires you to pay to use its training content and other resources.

Key features:

• Comprehensive analytics

• Multi-tiered site administration

• Free course creation