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Dining Room Training Checklist
The checklist (13 items)
Written as observable actions, so two trainers scoring the same shift land in the same place. In CrewSharp this is the Dining Room checklist in the Restaurant / QSR starter set, filed under Front of House, and every item here is editable.
- 1Wiped and reset tables right after guests left
- 2Put out a wet floor sign before cleaning a spillCritical
- 3Swept the floor on the dining room schedule
- 4Checked the restrooms on schedule and signed the log
- 5Restocked soap and paper in the restrooms
- 6Restocked the condiment area
- 7Wiped down the self-serve drink area
- 8Emptied trash cans before they overflowed
- 9Cleaned high chairs after each use
- 10Greeted guests while working the dining room
- 11Offered help to guests carrying trays or children
- 12Picked up litter at the entrance and in the parking lot
- 13Reported anything broken or unsafe to a manager
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What usually goes wrong
Restrooms on a schedule is the item that separates a real standard from a good intention. Checked when someone remembers usually means checked when it is already bad, and that is the version guests write reviews about.
The items a good total should not outweigh
- Put out a wet floor sign before cleaning a spill
When to sign someone off
A workable bar for this checklist: no critical items missed, a score above a line you set for Dining Room 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.
Other restaurant / qsr checklists
The rest of the set, if you are building out the whole floor rather than one position.
Common questions
Does the dining room really need its own checklist?
It needs one more than most areas, because there is no ticket forcing the work to happen. Without a written standard and a scheduled check, the room runs on whoever happens to notice.
What should be on a dining room checklist?
The 13 items above cover it: wiped and reset tables right after guests left, put out a wet floor sign before cleaning a spill, swept the floor on the dining room schedule, 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.
Which items should count as critical?
On this checklist, one item is marked critical: put out a wet floor sign before cleaning a spill. Missing one means not ready, regardless of the total score, because these are the failures that cannot be corrected after the fact.
Scoring it is the part that lasts
Run this Dining Room 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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