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Stewarding Main Dish Inspection Checklist

by boca culinary, from the Community

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This stewarding main dish inspection checklist helps restaurant and hospitality teams verify sanitation and back-of-house standards. Review loading dock cleanliness and storage, ice machine hygiene and scoop placement, working lights, and evidence of pests. Confirm each hand sink has soap, paper towels, hot water, and a garbage can. In the dish room, check mop storage, empty mop buckets, 180F final rinse temperatures, proper de-liming, and glass racks off the floor. In pot wash, verify 180F temperatures, functioning sanitizer dispensers, separation of clean and dirty pans, nearby test strips, and orderly pot storage with shelves neat and pots stored upside down. Use this guide to support consistent food safety and kitchen compliance.

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