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Expo Station Training Checklist

Expo is the last checkpoint before an order becomes the guest's problem. The person is reading a screen, assembling from several stations, and deciding whether what is in front of them is actually complete, which is a judgement call rather than a task to be repeated.

The checklist (4 items)

Written as observable actions, so two trainers scoring the same shift land in the same place. In CrewSharp this is the Bagging / Expo station in the Restaurant / QSR starter set, filed under Front of House, and every item here is editable.

  1. 1Assembled orders accurately against the screenMust pass
  2. 2Added the right condiments, napkins, and utensils
  3. 3Double-checked the bag before calling the order
  4. 4Kept expo organized during high volume

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What usually goes wrong

Assembling against the screen instead of from memory is the whole job. Someone who has learned the common orders will start working from recall during a rush, and that is precisely when the unusual order goes out wrong.

When to sign someone off

A workable bar for this station: no critical items missed, a score above a line you set for Bagging / Expo specifically rather than one number for the whole building, and observed on more than one shift with at least one of them busy. Then date it, so it can expire.

That last part is the one people skip. A sign-off with no date cannot be re-checked, which means a year later you have a record that says somebody was ready once.

Stations that pair with this one

These are the stations someone on this one most often covers alongside it, which makes them the sensible second checklist to train.

Common questions

Who should run expo during a rush?

Someone signed off on the stations feeding it, because they can tell at a glance when something is missing rather than checking item by item. Expo is usually a poor choice for a first station and a strong one for a second or third.

What should be on a expo station checklist?

The 4 items above cover it: assembled orders accurately against the screen, added the right condiments, napkins, and utensils, double-checked the bag before calling the order, and the rest of the list. Keep it in that range. Fewer and a pass proves very little; many more and trainers stop finishing it during a real shift.

Does this station need critical items?

Not every station has one. Where nothing on the list carries a safety or legal consequence, a passing score plus observation across more than one shift is a reasonable bar on its own. Marking items critical when they are not just makes the flag mean less everywhere else.

Scoring it is the part that lasts

Run this Bagging / Expo checklist on a tablet between rushes and CrewSharp keeps the rest: who is signed off, when it was last checked, and which item your crew misses most.

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