diff --git a/handlers/main.yml b/handlers/main.yml
index 0279006..dd0a1fe 100644
--- a/handlers/main.yml
+++ b/handlers/main.yml
@@ -18,8 +18,15 @@
   when:
     - ansible_service_mgr == 'systemd'
 
-- name: Restart memcached
+- name: Restart memcached (upstart)
   service:
     name: "memcached"
     state: "restarted"
     pattern: "memcached"
+  when:
+    - ansible_service_mgr != 'systemd'
+
+- name: Restart memcached (systemd)
+  command: "systemctl restart memcached"
+  when:
+    - ansible_service_mgr == 'systemd'
diff --git a/tasks/memcached_config.yml b/tasks/memcached_config.yml
index ad9e0ec..6c8a65f 100644
--- a/tasks/memcached_config.yml
+++ b/tasks/memcached_config.yml
@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@
     owner: "root"
     group: "root"
     mode: "0644"
-  notify: Restart memcached
+  notify:
+    - Restart memcached (upstart)
+    - Restart memcached (systemd)
 
 - name: Create memcached systemd service config dir
   file:
@@ -61,7 +63,8 @@
     - ansible_pkg_mgr == 'apt'
     - ansible_service_mgr != 'systemd'
     - memcached_connections > 1024
-  notify: Restart memcached
+  notify:
+    - Restart memcached (upstart)
 
 - name: Add automatic restart on failure
   template:
@@ -69,7 +72,8 @@
     dest: "/etc/systemd/system/memcached.service.d/systemd-restart-on-failure.conf"
   when:
     - ansible_service_mgr == 'systemd'
-  notify: Restart memcached
+  notify:
+    - Restart memcached (systemd)
 
 - name: Apply resource limits (systemd)
   template:
@@ -83,7 +87,7 @@
     - memcached_connections > 1024
   notify:
     - Reload the systemd daemon
-    - Restart memcached
+    - Restart memcached (systemd)
 
 - name: Configure soft file limits
   lineinfile: