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Opening Checklist Builder for Restaurants
The owner asked this:"Each venue's kitchen opens at 06:45 with two people and the sancocho has to be on the heat by 09:00. Every morning something goes unchecked and the head chef finds out at 10:30, when there is no slack left. I need the kitchen opening sheet with a cut-off per block and who gets called for each NO."
① The clock run backwards: why the walk is signed at 07:15
The cut-off lands 60 minutes before the stretch that rules. Lunch opens its doors at 12:00, so the mise en place closes at 11:00 (CHK-COC-01). The slowest dish sets the start: the Sancocho de tres carnes needs 60 minutes of prep and 90 of cooking. Counted backwards, it goes on the heat at 09:00, with a hard stop at 09:30 and no slack; prep starts at 08:00, the three meats are in the kitchen at 07:45 and the walk is signed at 07:15.
| Block | Starts | Cut-off | Boxes B/S |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Entry and safety | 06:45 | 06:52 | 7 (1 B / 6 S) |
| 2 · Hands, people and instruments | 06:52 | 07:00 | 5 (3 B / 2 S) |
| 3 · Cold, the 07:00 round | 07:00 | 07:07 | 5 (1 B / 4 S) |
| 4 · Yesterday's product | 07:07 | 07:15 | 6 (1 B / 5 S) |
| 5 · Briefing and report | 07:15 | 07:20 | 2 (0 B / 2 S) |
| 6 · Production start | 07:20 | 09:00 (stop 09:30) | 6 (2 B / 4 S) |
| Total | 06:45 | 07:20 the walk · 09:00 the sancocho | 31 (8 B / 23 S) |
The real hands, not the payroll. From 06:45 to 10:30 each venue has 2 people: the production cook and the kitchen and dishwashing assistant. Both venues open at the same hour with 4 of the house's 24 people; the head chef comes in at 10:30. That is why the sheet is signed by two hands, the walk fits in 30 minutes and escalation goes by phone.
② From the vague box to the verifiable box
Every item is a closed question, with its unit or its time. A temperature with no written value is not a YES.
| Vague box | Verifiable box | What measures it |
|---|---|---|
| "Check the gas" | Zero smell of gas on entering, before touching a switch? | The nose, before the light; time written |
| "Fridges OK" | Protein walk-in: one piece measured at the core, 0 °C to 4 °C? | Probe thermometer checked at 06:52 |
| "Thermometer calibrated" | Thermometer in ice water between −1 °C and 1 °C? | Glass of ice and water, 2 minutes |
| "Check use-by dates" | No cooked item past 72 hours or past its spec sheet? | Label against the clock |
| "Kitchen ready" | Deleted: items 26 to 31, with times, replace it | Wall clock |
The blockers are 8 and no more: gas, hand sink, health of whoever opens, thermometer, protein walk-in, 72 hours, sancocho meats, hood and flame. Each one has written down what it costs or how it is measured. A lunch with no hot line is 44 tickets × 48,000 COP = 2,112,000 COP per venue (illustrative). A thermometer costs 120,000 COP (illustrative), and if it lies, the day's 20 temperatures lie with it.
The ones that wait have a fix within the shift: the scale and the sanitizer are corrected in 5 minutes; yesterday's batch without its final reading is held with FOR-COC-20 and the head chef decides at 10:30.
③ Till and channels: what the kitchen hands to the house opening
The change float, the POS and the channels do not belong to this sheet: they have an owner and a time. The table says who signs them, so a new hire does not look for them here, and what the kitchen puts into each.
| What | Who and when | Where it is signed | What the kitchen puts in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Change float: 400,000 COP per venue, signed by two job titles | Cashier; the venue manager checks · 11:20 to 11:35 | CHK-CAJ-01 and FOR-CAJ-01 | Nothing: the kitchen does not touch the till |
| POS: test ticket voided | Cashier · 11:20 to 11:35 | CHK-CAJ-01 and FOR-CAJ-03 | The head chef confirms it printed at the pass printer |
| Own delivery: WhatsApp catalog | Cashier · 11:30 to 11:50 | FOR-DOM-03 | The 86s the head chef calls at 11:00 |
| Delivery platform: tablet with the 86s flagged | Cashier · 11:30 to 11:50 | FOR-DOM-03 | The same 86s |
The kitchen's contribution is the expected 86 at 07:20. If at 07:15 the sancocho meats are missing or the trout will not cover the plan, the head chef and the purchasing lead know with three hours to spare. The firm 86 at 11:00 stays the exception, not the surprise of the pre-shift. A call at 07:20 buys two and a half hours; the same news at 10:30 buys none.
The full example has 2 more part(s): you see them inside the library, with your account.