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Elite Kitchen Audit Checklist

by Matthew shaw, from the Community

Comprehensive kitchen audit checklist designed for food service operations. Covers cleaning schedules, documentation traceability, probe use and calibration, handwashing, and contamination controls. Includes sections on allergen management, staff training, maintenance, hazard controls, and HACCP implementation. Reviews structure and workflow, sanitation practices, chemical handling, personal hygiene, and first aid provisions. Audits control of critical points such as deliveries, storage temperatures, date labeling, cooking and cooling records, and probe accuracy. Also examines pest control contracts, housekeeping, and internal/external waste management to meet EHO and food safety standards.

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Food Safety Kitchen Operations Audit
This food safety kitchen operations audit helps restaurants and food service teams verify hygiene standards, training, pest control, equipment upkeep, and safe workflows. Inspect delivery controls and traceability, probe sanitation and calibration, hand washing, contamination prevention, and EHO report actions. Review staff training, maintenance logs, audits, communication, and hazard controls. Check structure, lighting, ventilation, dishwasher temperatures, sink separation, first aid, pest proofing, and waste management. Create actions for any non conformances.
by Justin Pan, from the Community
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Production Kitchen Audit Checklist
This production kitchen audit checklist helps commercial and institutional kitchens verify compliance with food safety and hygiene standards. It covers staff training, allergen management, HACCP records, temperature control, storage practices, personal hygiene, cooking, hot and cold holding, transport, cooling and reheating, pest control, cleaning schedules, signage, premises condition, and health and safety. Use it to capture evidence, probe temperatures, log corrective actions, and prepare for EHO inspections.
by Becky Smith, from the Community
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Weekly Kitchen Audit
This weekly kitchen audit checklist helps restaurants and food service teams verify compliance with core food safety and hygiene standards. Use it to review stock rotation and date coding, temperature control for chilled, frozen and hot holding, cross-contamination prevention, allergen management and labeling, cleaning and sanitizing routines, equipment condition, and personal hygiene. The checklist also covers probe calibration, waste management, pest control measures, storage practices, and documentation accuracy. It includes health and safety items such as fire safety, PPE, and housekeeping, ensuring consistent, audit-ready operations every week.
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Kitchen Hygiene Audit Report
Use this Kitchen Hygiene Audit Report template to evaluate food premises compliance across key areas of food safety. The checklist covers local authority registration, HACCP or FSMP documentation, deliveries and supplier controls, dry, chilled, and frozen storage, food preparation and sanitisation practices, advanced cooking and reheating, temperature monitoring and records, food display and service, and physical contamination prevention. It also assesses personal hygiene and handwashing, first aid and illness procedures, maintenance, pest control, staff training, cleaning schedules and standards, waste management, sanitary provisions, and the fabric and structure of the kitchen. Include health and safety documentation and corrective actions.
by Sakkarin sinlaparak, from the Community
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Elite Kitchen Audit Checklist

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