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Served Bar Quality and Operations Checklist

by Siraj VC, from the Community

This Served bar quality and operations checklist helps bar and cafe teams standardize daily tasks and uphold brand standards. It covers coffee excellence steps such as grinder cleanliness, correct tamping, milk temperature control, thermometer use, and equipment calibration each shift. It guides service standards for takeaway and dine in, verifies crockery and cup use, and ensures steam wand hygiene, jug and porta filter cleaning, and organized bar areas. It also prompts stock checks for coffee beans and records of calibrations to maintain consistent quality and food safety.

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Served Quality and Operations Checklist
Standardize daily audits across cafe and coffee shop locations with the Served Quality and Operations Checklist. It covers Safety Excellence including pest control, hygiene, handwashing, deliveries, storage, temperature logs, and fire extinguishers. Store Excellence spans signage, cleaning, equipment, licensing, displays, toilets, and cash audits. Service Excellence focuses on staffing, greeting, order accuracy, training records, aggregator devices, and table turn. Coffee Excellence ensures machine and grinder upkeep, tamping, recipes, drink weighing, milk temperatures, thermometer calibration, latte art, shift calibrations, and thorough cleaning. Capture photos, assign actions, sign digitally, and export reports.
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This coffee audit checklist helps cafes and coffee shops evaluate beverage quality, equipment hygiene, milk preparation, and service standards. It covers espresso extraction and crema, milk texturing for cappuccino, latte, and flat white, correct recipes for hot chocolate, mocha, and americano, and proper presentation in dine-in and takeaway formats. It includes cleaning routines for steam arms, milk jugs, and coffee machines, calibration of thermometers, and adherence to brand standards. The template also checks team appearance, customer service behaviors, receipt handling, and complaint processes, plus food display, equipment condition, and overall cafe cleanliness across seating, floors, fixtures, lighting, vents, and condiment areas.
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Served Quality and Operations Checklist

Standardize daily audits across cafe and coffee shop locations with the Served Quality and Operations Checklist. It covers Safety Excellence including pest control, hygiene, handwashing, deliveries, storage, temperature logs, and fire extinguishers. Store Excellence spans signage, cleaning, equipment, licensing, displays, toilets, and cash audits. Service Excellence focuses on staffing, greeting, order accuracy, training records, aggregator devices, and table turn. Coffee Excellence ensures machine and grinder upkeep, tamping, recipes, drink weighing, milk temperatures, thermometer calibration, latte art, shift calibrations, and thorough cleaning. Capture photos, assign actions, sign digitally, and export reports.

by Siraj VC, from the Community

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JOLT Quality and Operations Checklist

This JOLT Quality and Operations Checklist helps coffee shops and restaurants assess daily safety, store standards, service, and coffee excellence. It guides teams to confirm pest control, hygiene, hot water and handwash facilities, delivery temperatures, storage, and fridge/freezer logs. Store standards cover signage, cleanliness, licenses, cash audits, and merchandising. Service checks include staffing, greeting, order management, training files, and speed of table turn. Coffee excellence verifies grinder and machine setup, tamping, recipes, milk handling and temperatures, calibration, barista skills, and equipment cleaning. Use it to keep operations consistent, compliant, and on brand.

by Prakash Cornelius, from the Community

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Food and Beverage Audit Checklist

This comprehensive food and beverage audit checklist helps restaurant and bar teams evaluate kitchen and bar standards across cleanliness, equipment condition, food safety, paperwork, and daily operations. Sections include kitchen hygiene, equipment upkeep, food handling and rotation, labelling, staff hygiene, and documentation such as temperature logs, cleaning rotas, delivery checks, and corrective actions. It also covers kitchen structure and operational controls like pest monitoring, waste management, HACCP and COSHH awareness, PPE, first aid readiness, and fire safety. The bar audit includes safety checks, glassware hygiene, coffee machine care, stock rotation, line cleaning, and station setup. Use this template to drive consistent compliance and service quality across shifts.

by Alissa Espie, from the Community

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Coffee Audit Checklist

This coffee audit checklist helps cafes and coffee shops evaluate beverage quality, equipment hygiene, milk preparation, and service standards. It covers espresso extraction and crema, milk texturing for cappuccino, latte, and flat white, correct recipes for hot chocolate, mocha, and americano, and proper presentation in dine-in and takeaway formats. It includes cleaning routines for steam arms, milk jugs, and coffee machines, calibration of thermometers, and adherence to brand standards. The template also checks team appearance, customer service behaviors, receipt handling, and complaint processes, plus food display, equipment condition, and overall cafe cleanliness across seating, floors, fixtures, lighting, vents, and condiment areas.

by Tracey MacRobert, from the Community

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Served Bar Quality and Operations Checklist

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