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Retail Walkthrough Checklist

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This retail walkthrough checklist guides teams through a comprehensive audit of store and food service operations. Review retail space cleanliness, stocked displays, and uniform standards. Inspect large, middle, and end registers for lined bins, sanitizer, water, and stocked impulse displays. Verify condiment stations, action stations, salad bars, sushi prep, steam tables, grills, and Italian stations for cleanliness, correct labeling and dating, completed temp/time logs, sanitizer availability, and working equipment. Confirm guest-side counters, glass, and heat lamps are clean, signage matches stations, and employees have thermometers, pens, gloves, and logs. Finish with daily completion checks, including salad bar closet cleanliness, spot temperature verification from reach-in coolers, and retail rally completion.

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