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Food Safety Top 12 Walk-Through Checklist

by Brittany Davis, from the Community

This checklist guides managers through the top 12 food safety priorities in restaurants. Verify handwashing stations, review health inspection follow ups, confirm hot water and temperature control, and ensure proper sanitizing with test strips. Check shake machine hygiene, approved product compliance, time control for high risk foods, and cross contamination prevention. Inspect for pest activity, validate cook outs and records, document other critical issues, and capture visit summary and signatures.

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Food Safety Top 12 Walk-Through
Use this Food Safety Top 12 Walk-Through checklist to audit the most critical controls for restaurants and quick service operations. It covers handwashing and hand sinks, recent health inspection violations and corrective actions, hot water availability, temperature control and logging, surface sanitizing and test strips, shake machine and blender cleanliness, approved product use, time control for TCS foods, cross-contamination prevention and utensil changeouts, pest activity and records, beef cook-outs and recording frequency, and other critical violations. Ideal for routine inspections, training, and compliance monitoring.
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Food Safety Top 12 and Brand Standards Walk-Thru
This restaurant audit checklist helps teams verify the Top 12 food safety controls and brand standards across locations. It covers handwashing and sink setup, hot water availability, temperature control and logging, proper sanitizing and test strips, equipment hygiene for shake/soft-serve, approved products, time control for PHFs, cross-contamination prevention, pest activity checks, and documented cook-outs. Use it to spot issues, correct violations, and maintain consistent quality and guest experience.
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Food Safety Top 12 Walk Thru Checklist
This ARL GM Food Safety Top 12 Walk Thru checklist helps restaurant managers verify compliance with critical controls that impact health inspections. It covers handwashing and stocked hand sinks, hot water availability, temperature control for coolers and freezers, proper sanitizing and test strip use, approved products, time control for foods held at room temperature, cross contamination prevention, pest activity monitoring, shake machine and soft serve hygiene, cook out procedures and record keeping, and other critical violations. Use this tool to document findings, corrective actions, and acknowledgements to strengthen food safety and reduce risk.
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Top 12 Food Safety Checklist
This food safety checklist covers the 12 critical checks restaurants should perform, including proper handwashing, approved sanitizing concentrations, cross-contamination prevention, soft-serve machine hygiene, required hot water temperatures, cookout logging and verification, potentially hazardous foods temperature and time control, pest control, unapproved item checks, and health inspection follow-ups. Use it to support daily compliance and consistent food safety practices across sites.
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Food Safety Top 12 Walk-Through

Use this Food Safety Top 12 Walk-Through checklist to audit the most critical controls for restaurants and quick service operations. It covers handwashing and hand sinks, recent health inspection violations and corrective actions, hot water availability, temperature control and logging, surface sanitizing and test strips, shake machine and blender cleanliness, approved product use, time control for TCS foods, cross-contamination prevention and utensil changeouts, pest activity and records, beef cook-outs and recording frequency, and other critical violations. Ideal for routine inspections, training, and compliance monitoring.

by Shontale Townsend, from the Community

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Food Safety Top 12 and Brand Standards Walk-Thru

This restaurant audit checklist helps teams verify the Top 12 food safety controls and brand standards across locations. It covers handwashing and sink setup, hot water availability, temperature control and logging, proper sanitizing and test strips, equipment hygiene for shake/soft-serve, approved products, time control for PHFs, cross-contamination prevention, pest activity checks, and documented cook-outs. Use it to spot issues, correct violations, and maintain consistent quality and guest experience.

by Jose Flores, from the Community

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Food Safety Top 12 Walk Thru Checklist

This ARL GM Food Safety Top 12 Walk Thru checklist helps restaurant managers verify compliance with critical controls that impact health inspections. It covers handwashing and stocked hand sinks, hot water availability, temperature control for coolers and freezers, proper sanitizing and test strip use, approved products, time control for foods held at room temperature, cross contamination prevention, pest activity monitoring, shake machine and soft serve hygiene, cook out procedures and record keeping, and other critical violations. Use this tool to document findings, corrective actions, and acknowledgements to strengthen food safety and reduce risk.

by Ryan Richmond, from the Community

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Top 12 Food Safety Checklist

This food safety checklist covers the 12 critical checks restaurants should perform, including proper handwashing, approved sanitizing concentrations, cross-contamination prevention, soft-serve machine hygiene, required hot water temperatures, cookout logging and verification, potentially hazardous foods temperature and time control, pest control, unapproved item checks, and health inspection follow-ups. Use it to support daily compliance and consistent food safety practices across sites.

by Carol Mathieson, from the Community

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Food Safety Top 12 Walk-Through Checklist

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