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SimpsInns Kitchen Audit Checklist

by The Coast The Gailes Hotel, from the Community

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This SimpsInns kitchen audit checklist helps hospitality teams verify food room cleanliness, equipment condition, and correct storage across fridges, freezers, and dry goods. It covers food handling practices, allergen control, cooling and defrosting, personal hygiene, pest control, and dishwashing temperatures. Record-keeping prompts include HACCP temperature logs, weekly cleaning schedules, wastage, maintenance tracking, and probe checks. A chef questionnaire reinforces knowledge of safe temperatures, sanitation contact times, stock rotation, and handwashing.

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This SimpsInns Kitchen Audit template helps hospitality teams evaluate food rooms, equipment cleanliness, and food storage practices while reducing cross contamination risks. It covers food handling procedures, allergen control, cooling and defrosting methods, personal hygiene standards, pest control, and dishwasher temperature checks. The template also guides record keeping for HACCP, temperature logs, cleaning schedules, wastage, allergen sheets, and maintenance tracking. Sections for raw prep controls and a chef knowledge questionnaire reinforce safe, compliant kitchen operations.
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