Who is this assistant for?

You open the door and something is still missing: the rice, the change, the platform menu. The checklist comes back fully signed and the dining room was not ready. You have an inherited list off the internet with boxes nobody knows how to measure. Something goes wrong at 10:40 and nobody knows whether you open or not.

The first hour of the busy service bills the most, and whatever was not ready before the doors opened never gets fixed with a full room: money leaks quietly, dish by dish. This assistant turns "check that everything is fine" into a walk with an order, a cut-off per block and a job title signing each one. Every box is written to be answered YES or NO with its measure beside it, what blocks the opening is marked apart from what can wait, and every NO carries who gets called and who decides whether you open anyway.

AI assistant · N4 Executable plan

◆ Included in the annual plan✅ Checklists and Auditsv1.0.1 · 2026-08-26

Opening Checklist Builder for Restaurants

Builds the checklist your restaurant opens with: the walk through the venue in blocks, every box with its measure and its blocker mark, a cut-off time per block, the job title that signs and the escalation route for every NO.

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What it does and what you get

The first hour of the busy service bills the most, and whatever was not ready before the doors opened never gets fixed with a full room: money leaks quietly, dish by dish.
This assistant turns "check that everything is fine" into a walk with an order, a cut-off per block and a job title signing each one.
Every box is written to be answered YES or NO with its measure beside it, what blocks the opening is marked apart from what can wait, and every NO carries who gets called and who decides whether you open anyway.

What you end up with

Five chained deliverables: the opening clock with a cut-off and a signature per block, the printable sheet box by box, the rewrite table for vague boxes, the till-and-channels block with its counted change float, and the escalation route with its opening verdict.

EXAMPLE This is what you getAn example built with Sazón de Origen, the house's fictional restaurant.Not your data: your result is built with YOUR restaurant's.See the full example →

Sample result

Sazón de OrigenFictional contemporary Colombian restaurant in Medellín, 2 locations, 6 years in business. Every sample result in the library comes from this same case. Fictional restaurant

The owner asked this: "We open at 11:30 and lunch lands on us at 12. Every week something is left undone and nobody knows whose job it was. We are 24 people across the two venues."

The busy stretch sets the clock, not the hour on the door. At Sazón de Origen the Tuesday-to-Friday lunch starts at 12:00, so the opening cut-off lands at 11:00 and the door opens at 11:30. Whatever is not done by 11:00 never gets fixed: the first hour of lunch takes 28 of the day's 74 tickets per venue and, at a 48,000 COP average check, that is 1,344,000 COP crossing the till in 60 minutes. Half an hour of a sloppy opening costs close to 672,000 COP per venue, and both venues open at the same hour with 9 operations people each.

Block	Starts	Cut-off	Job title signing	Boxes (B/S)
Cold kitchen	9:00	10:10	Head chef	7 (2 B / 5 S)
Hot kitchen	9:15	10:30	Head chef	8 (3 B / 5 S)
Dining room and toilets	10:00	10:45	Floor manager	6 (1 B / 5 S)
Bar	10:20	10:45	Bar assistant	4 (0 B / 4 S)
Till	10:35	10:50	Cashier and venue manager	5 (2 B / 3 S)
Team and 5-minute briefing	10:50	11:00	Venue manager	2 (0 B / 2 S)
Digital channels	10:50	11:00	Delivery assistant	2 (0 B / 2 S)
Total	9:00	11:00	—	34 (8 B / 26 S)

The whole walk takes 26 timed minutes and blockers came out at 8, which is the house cap. Sancocho de tres carnes is what fixes the start: it needs 90 minutes of cooking and will not be rushed, so if it is not on the heat by 9:30 it does not make the first shift. Illustrative figures, built from the data you gave.

A box works when two different people, on two different days, answer it the same way. These six were rewritten for that reason: the left-hand one always got signed, the right-hand one sometimes did not.

Vague box	Verifiable box	Measured with what
Kitchen ready	Fridges between 0 and 4 degrees and freezer at 18 below zero, measured and logged with the time	Probe thermometer
We have sancocho	Sancocho de tres carnes on the heat before 9:30; it needs 90 minutes and will not be rushed	Kitchen clock
Mise en place up to date	Bandeja de la casa with 30 portions plated up and Trucha al ajillo with 12 portions of 220 g weighed	Bench scale
Yesterday's product checked	Previous day's product rotated forward; whatever is discarded, weighed and logged on the waste sheet	Scale and waste sheet
Dining room clean	18 tables set, toilets with paper and soap checked at 10:45, air at 23 degrees	Walk with the sheet
Till ready	Change float of 200,000 COP counted by two job titles and signed; voided test sale on the point of sale	Count and receipt

The difference is not wording, it is accountability: "kitchen ready" can be signed by anyone and contradicted by no one; "fridges between 0 and 4 degrees, logged with the time" leaves a written number the head chef stands behind. And it pays off over the month: a fridge that shows up three times above 4 degrees is not a careless shift, it is a pending repair, and that leak gets paid in waste before it gets paid to the technician.

The till and the channels form the shortest block and the one that moves the most money, because a point of sale that fails at 12:10 will not be fixed by willpower.

Denomination	Count	Subtotal
1,000 COP coin	40	40,000 COP
2,000 COP note	20	40,000 COP
5,000 COP note	12	60,000 COP
10,000 COP note	6	60,000 COP
Change float	—	200,000 COP

The float is 200,000 COP, a little over four average checks of 48,000 COP: enough to give change without opening the safe, not so much that a shortfall goes unnoticed. It is counted by the cashier and the venue manager, and both sign; a float counted by one person is not a control, it is a witness.

The test sale is rung before 10:50 with a Bandeja de la casa at 38,000 COP, charged, voided and the receipt kept: it tests printer, card reader and connection in one go. That dish carries 34% food cost, 12,920 COP of cost, which is why the test is voided rather than given away.

On channels, the three boxes due at 11:00: the dining room with the day's menu set, your own delivery line answering, and the delivery platform open with yesterday's sold-out dishes flagged against the sales mix. If Trucha al ajillo has run out and stays published, the platform sells it anyway, and the guest who waits 40 minutes for a dish that does not exist leaves a rating that lasts months. Illustrative figures, built from the data you gave.

Illustrative example generated with a fictional restaurant. Not a promise of results, not a client case.

This is 3 of 5 parts. Behind the wall sit the two pieces that get executed. The full printable sheet: the 34 boxes spread across seven blocks with a start hour, a cut-off and the job title signing each one, a box per line with its B or S mark and its measure written in —fridge and hot-line degrees, weighed portions of Bandeja de la casa and Trucha al ajillo, change float counted, sold-out dishes flagged—, on half a sheet to tape beside the service door. And the escalation route, with columns Box at NO, who gets called, within how many minutes, who decides and opening verdict: the five faults that actually happen, the one that shuts the door on its own, and the 11:00 cut-off rule that turns the same NO repeated three times in 14 days into a repair with a date.

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Works with these AIs

ChatGPT — the best for this assistant The best fit here: it holds the backward clock without breaking the hours and returns the printable sheet with its B and S marks intact.

How to use it

Have on hand the hour you open, the hour your busy stretch begins and how many people are in the venue at that time.

Copy the assistant into your preferred AI along with your business details and answer its questions about the walk and the job titles.

Walk the venue with the sheet it returns and fix any box that cannot be answered YES or NO with a measure.

Print the corrected version, set who signs each block and log for two weeks the boxes that come back NO.

Which of your data it uses

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This assistant works with 9 of the 23 fields in «My Restaurant», among them Restaurant name, Business type and City and country. It does not ask out of curiosity: these are what make the answer speak about YOUR scale instead of an industry average — the same calculation on a business of another size returns a number you cannot decide with. You fill them once and they apply across the library, so the second assistant you open already starts with them in place. Whatever you leave blank, the assistant asks for one thing at a time instead of inventing it, and says so before answering, so you know what it is working from.

Restaurant nameBusiness typeCity and countryNumber of locationsTeam sizeStrong and slow daypartsBest-selling dishesAverage check (with currency)Active sales channels

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Same method, another variant

Inside the app this is a single control: you press it and the assistant reframes itself, including the variants that don't appear here because they don't have their own page yet.

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