Guides
Restaurant training guides, written for people who run a floor
9 min read
How to Build a Restaurant Training Program (2026 Guide)
Define your stations, write checklists somebody can be scored against, set the bar for signing someone off, and keep the whole thing from rotting in month three.
7 min read
Restaurant New Hire Training Checklist (Free Template)
Day one, week one and the first 30 days, with the specific sign-offs that matter and the name of the person responsible for each.
8 min read
How to Cross-Train Restaurant Staff Without Wrecking Service
How to pick who learns what, when to schedule it so service survives, and how to tell whether it worked.
6 min read
Restaurant Training Matrix Template (Free, and What Breaks It)
A training matrix you can copy today, the four columns that carry all the value, and an honest account of why the spreadsheet version goes stale.
More guides
8 min read
How to Train a New Server (Step by Step)
The order to teach it in, what to hold back until week two, and when to hand over a real section.
7 min read
How to Evaluate Restaurant Staff (Without Guessing)
Scoring people so two managers reach the same answer, and what makes an evaluation actionable rather than decorative.
6 min read
Who Should Train Your Restaurant Staff
Why your fastest cook may be the wrong trainer, and the one-to-one rule that decides it.
6 min read
How to Schedule Restaurant Training That Happens
Finding the blocks with genuine slack, and why the full training day is a trap.
6 min read
How Long Does Restaurant Training Take?
Why counting days is the wrong measure, and what actually drives the difference.
6 min read
Restaurant Training and Staff Retention
Why undertrained hires leave first, and what the first two weeks decide.
6 min read
Restaurant Opening and Closing Checklists
What belongs on each, and how to stop the closing list being ticked from the car park.
6 min read
How to Measure Training Effectiveness
Three numbers, and why the third one is the only one that tells you what to change.
Weighing your options
If you have already decided to fix this and are choosing between ways to do it, the comparison pages cover 6 of them, including the cases where the honest answer is to stay on the spreadsheet.
Checklists for every station
The guides above are about how to run a training program. If what you actually came for is the list of what to check at a particular station, that lives in its own library: 56 station training checklists, covering restaurants, cafes, bars, retail, grocery and more, with the items that cannot be traded away marked on each.
Where the software comes in
Every guide here works on paper. They were written that way on purpose, because a training program that only functions inside a specific tool is a program that dies the day you change tools.
What CrewSharp does is take the parts that decay - the matrix that goes stale, the checklist that ends up in a drawer, the sign-off nobody recorded - and make them a by-product of training you were already doing. If a guide leaves you thinking "this is right, but nobody will keep it current", that is the part we built.
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