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Kitchen and Food Safety Checklist

by training ASEERTIME, from the Community

This kitchen and food safety checklist helps restaurant teams audit daily operations across cleanliness, equipment condition, temperature control, and hygiene. Verify fridge and freezer temperatures, fryer oil quality, chargrill and air fryer cleanliness, FIFO labeling, handwashing compliance, and separation of raw and cooked food. Include product quality checks for breads, sauces, salads, and cooked chicken. Use it to standardize inspections and reduce cross contamination and compliance risks.

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Kitchen Food Safety Checklist

This kitchen and food safety checklist helps hospitality teams standardize hygiene and compliance across restaurant, cafe, and catering operations. It covers kitchen cleanliness, equipment sanitation, fridge and freezer organization, product rotation and labeling, handwashing access and practices, separation of raw and cooked products to avoid cross contamination, temperature probing and hot holding records, correct storage, staff uniforms, and use of suitable chemicals. It also checks maintenance, PPE, training, electric fly killers, emergency door releases in walk-ins, gas safety chains, SOP adherence, wastage logging, and fridge layout plans. Use it to support HACCP programs, streamline audits, and reduce risk.

by Dan Poole, from the Community

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Food Safety and Personal Hygiene Inspection

This comprehensive checklist helps restaurant teams audit key areas of food safety and quality. It covers personal hygiene, safe food handling, prep area cleanliness, segregation to prevent cross contamination, food storage and temperature control, equipment maintenance, pest control, waste and chemical management, product appearance and quality checks, record keeping, store aesthetics, safety signage, and certifications. Use it to standardize audits, log temperatures, verify FIFO and FEFO, document cleaning, and ensure compliance with food safety standards.

by Kenneth Sia, from the Community

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Brakspear Kitchen Audit Checklist

This Brakspear Kitchen Audit checklist helps hospitality teams assess food safety and hygiene across the kitchen. It covers staff training and certification, allergen information, daily audit sign-off, storage and cooking temperatures, cooling procedures, separation of raw and cooked foods, handwashing and sanitizing practices, probe use and calibration, date coding and day-dot systems, equipment cleanliness and maintenance, pest control records, and overall facility cleanliness including walls, floors, fridge seals, and bin storage. Use it to standardize inspections, ensure compliance, and maintain high kitchen standards.

by Arthur Knights, from the Community

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Hygiene and Food Safety Checklist

Use this checklist to maintain hygiene and food safety across restaurant operations. It covers equipment cleanliness, dishwashing, temperature control, pest management, personal hygiene and grooming, proper handwashing and glove use, chemical storage, waste management, delivery checks, receiving, FIFO storage for ambient and chilled items, labeling and expiry tracking, and front-of-house cleaning. Includes guidance on logs, corrective actions, and standards for segregation of raw and cooked foods to help teams pass audits and meet compliance.

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Kitchen and Food Safety Checklist

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