The hospitality industry moves fast.
A busy weekend can suddenly become busier than expected. A team member may call in sick just hours before a shift. A venue may need additional staff for an event, a seasonal rush or an unexpected increase in demand.
For restaurants, pubs, bars, hotels and event businesses, finding reliable hospitality workers quickly can be a major operational challenge.
That is why Diisco is heading to The National Restaurant, Pub & Bar Show 2026 (NRPB) at ExCeL London on 16–17 September 2026 to showcase a technology-driven approach to flexible hospitality staffing.
Why Flexible Staffing Matters in Hospitality
Hospitality businesses don’t always need permanent employees for every staffing requirement.
Sometimes a venue simply needs an experienced bartender for one evening, an extra waiter for a busy weekend, additional kitchen staff for an event or someone to cover an unexpected absence.
Traditional staffing processes can make these situations unnecessarily difficult. Businesses may have to contact multiple people, wait for responses or rely on agency processes that can add additional cost and complexity.
A flexible staffing model gives hospitality operators another option: access to workers when they are actually needed.
Diisco is designed around this idea.
What Is Diisco?
Diisco is a UK hospitality gig platform that connects hospitality venues directly with flexible hospitality workers.
Rather than operating as a traditional recruitment or staffing agency, Diisco provides a digital platform where venues can manage individual shift requirements.
Through the platform, venues can:
- Create and post hospitality shifts
- Receive applications from available workers
- Review worker profiles and experience
- Consider worker ratings
- Communicate with applicants
- Select workers for individual shifts
- Manage staffing requirements digitally
- Pay workers directly
The goal is simple: make hospitality staffing faster, more transparent and easier to manage.
From a Staffing Problem to a Digital Solution
One of the biggest challenges for hospitality operators is the time involved in filling a shift.
When a last-minute staffing requirement appears, every minute matters.
A venue manager doesn’t necessarily need a long recruitment process. They need to know:
Who is available?
Who has the right experience?
Who can work this particular shift?
Can I confirm them quickly?
Diisco is built to help answer these questions through one platform.
By bringing shift information, worker profiles, applications and communication together, the platform aims to reduce the friction involved in managing flexible staffing.
AI-Powered Shift Creation
Technology is changing how hospitality businesses operate, and artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly important part of that transformation.
Diisco is introducing AI-powered shift creation to make publishing hospitality shifts even easier.
Instead of manually entering every detail, intelligent automation can help venues create structured shift information more quickly and accurately.
For a busy hospitality manager, this can mean less time spent creating a job post and more time focused on running the venue.
The objective isn’t technology for technology’s sake.
It is about removing unnecessary steps from the staffing process.
Helping Venues Respond to Last-Minute Demand
Hospitality demand can change quickly.
A restaurant may receive a large number of bookings. A pub may have an unexpectedly busy Friday night. A hotel may require additional staff for an event. An employee may become unavailable at short notice.
These situations create staffing gaps that need to be addressed quickly.
A flexible hospitality staffing platform can give operators another way to respond.
With Diisco, venues can post individual shifts and connect with workers who are looking for flexible hospitality opportunities.
This approach can be particularly useful for:
- Restaurants
- Pubs
- Bars
- Hotels
- Event businesses
- Hospitality groups
- Other businesses with shift-based staffing requirements
Creating More Visibility for Hospitality Operators
Finding someone to work a shift is only part of the challenge.
Hospitality businesses also need confidence that the person they select is suitable for the role.
Worker profiles, experience and ratings can give venues additional information when reviewing applications.
This creates greater visibility during the selection process and helps operators make more informed staffing decisions.
For workers, the platform also provides an opportunity to build their professional reputation through completed shifts and ratings.
The result is a staffing environment where both sides can have greater visibility into the process.
Meeting the Hospitality Industry at NRPB 2026
Diisco’s participation in The National Restaurant, Pub & Bar Show 2026 is an opportunity to meet hospitality operators face-to-face and learn more about the staffing challenges businesses are experiencing.
Taking place on 16–17 September 2026 at ExCeL London, the event will bring together hospitality operators, buyers, decision-makers, suppliers and technology providers.
For Diisco, the event is about more than showcasing an app.
It is about speaking directly with the people responsible for running hospitality businesses and understanding what they need from the next generation of staffing technology.
The Future of Hospitality Staffing
The hospitality workforce is becoming increasingly flexible.
Businesses need ways to respond to changing demand, while workers increasingly value flexibility in when and where they work.
Technology can help bring these two requirements together.
At Diisco, we believe hospitality staffing should be simple, direct and flexible.
Venues should be able to post a shift without unnecessary complexity.
Workers should be able to discover relevant opportunities.
And businesses should have greater control over who they select and when they need them.
That is the direction Diisco is working towards.
Meet Diisco at The National Restaurant, Pub & Bar Show
If you’re attending NRPB 2026, we’d love to meet you.
Come and discover how Diisco is helping hospitality businesses rethink the way they manage flexible staffing and how AI-powered technology can make creating and filling shifts faster.
Whether you operate a restaurant, pub, bar, hotel, event business or hospitality group, we’d love to hear about your staffing challenges and show you how Diisco works.
📅 16–17 September 2026
📍 ExCeL London
🎯 The National Restaurant, Pub & Bar Show 2026
Want to learn more about Diisco?
Visit diisco.app to discover how Diisco helps hospitality venues manage flexible staffing.
Diisco — Hospitality staffing, made simpler.
