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Kitchen Cleanliness and Compliance Checklist

by Mike Graveson, from the Community

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Use this comprehensive kitchen cleanliness and compliance checklist to inspect hygiene, sanitation, and maintenance standards across all back-of-house areas. Cover pizza and microwave stations, main cookline, pot wash, storage, corridors, and WIN units. Verify floors, walls, high-level areas, fridges and freezers, grills, fryers, gantries, handwash stations, and waste bins. Record issues, assign corrective actions, and sign off to confirm completion. Email the finished report to the pub and keep copies for the office and kitchen.

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