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Drinks Station Training Checklist
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 Drinks Station station in the Restaurant / QSR starter set, filed under Front of House, and every item here is editable.
- 1Made each drink to the correct recipe and size
- 2Used proper ice and fill levels
- 3Lidded, labeled, and cap-sealed drinks correctly
- 4Kept pace during the rush
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What usually goes wrong
Fill levels and ice are where consistency quietly goes. Nobody sends a drink back for being slightly light, so the standard drifts without anyone reporting it, which is exactly why it belongs on a scored checklist rather than in a trainer's memory.
When to sign someone off
A workable bar for this station: no critical items missed, a score above a line you set for Drinks Station 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
Is drinks a good first station for a new hire?
It is one of the better ones. The recipes are finite and written down, mistakes are cheap and visible immediately, and it sits next to the counter and expo, so the new person is learning the rhythm of the line while doing something useful.
What should be on a drinks station checklist?
The 4 items above cover it: made each drink to the correct recipe and size, used proper ice and fill levels, lidded, labeled, and cap-sealed drinks correctly, 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 Drinks Station 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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