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ChefDesk™ Management Guides is our product line of forms, signs and lists designed to help you control and manage your food service operation. These documents will help you and your staff improve daily efficiency relating to your Kitchen, Dining Room, Employees and Customers.

Here are two FREE Guides that you can download and use right away:

Restaurant Fact Sheet: This form helps your staff answer frequently asked questions about your restaurant. 

Reservation Details: This form helps your staff obtain important information when taking reservations.

While phones are typically answered by staff who are trained to gather critical reservation information, cooks. office staff, porters and dishwashers - who may not know how to take a reservation - have been known to grab the phone and give it their best shot. These forms help staffers who may not know the answers to every question. Fill in the form with your data, then post copies near back of the house phones, in the office and at the reservation and cashier station. Enabling your staff to give consistent, accurate answers to callers’ questions will build sales and promote good customer relations.

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PDF Restaurant Fact Sheet
PDF Reservation Details

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Special - Set of Every List, Form and Sign Described Below $34.00 Add to Cart
     

Professional Policies & Procedures - Set of 3 files

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Kitchen Standard Operating Procedures & Policies

 

Comprehensive, proven operating procedures applicable to most commercial restaurant and institutional kitchens. It includes Opening and Closing procedures, Ordering -Receiving - Storage, Preparation guides, tips on Firing Orders, policies on Safety & Sanitation plus Maintaining an Orderly Kitchen. Implementing the policies found in this 7 page report will quickly improve production and operating results!
Dining Room Standard Operating Procedures & Policies

 

Contains opening and closing procedures, a thorough dining room checklist, station rotation policy-development advice, a guide to side-work assignment management, instruction on building quality and efficiency into your Steps of Service to Guests, Reservations procedures and a policy reminder list pertaining to Tipped Employ6/23/08ll help your staff increase sales and improve the quality of service!
Business Policy Development & Employee Handbook Issues

This practical, well-organized list contains all the issues typically addressed in developing a comprehensive set of standard business policies as they pertain to employees. It will save you time and keep you organized as you write your Employee Handbook. Even if you are not writing a Handbook, this document will prompt you to make decisions about the hundreds of issues that WILL come up if you have even one employee.
 

SIGNS ! SIGNS ! SIGNS ! - Set of 8 files

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This is the most efficient, practical and economical way to buy signs today!

Download these sets of clear, often humorous, to-the-point, memorable, instructive 8 ½ X 11 posters… and print them out on your own choice of papers! These are signs you can have some fun with and get their important messages across to your crew at the same time!

Signs are grouped by topic and department: Kitchen, Dining Room, Storage Practices, Safety, etc. They are inexpensive, effective, original and practical. Their messages will help your staff remember to do their best in all the important details of daily operations!

The following descriptions contain key phrases from one or two signs in each topic area. The actual signs have text that is fuller, more informative and often rather humorous! These signs encourage good performance and professional practices rather than scold and forbid. They aren’t the same old "Don’t! - You are Bad & Wrong!" signage of the past.

Kitchen Morale & Professionalism

"SAVOR FLAVOR", "MISE EN PLACE!" … AND FOUR MORE. Your cooks will appreciate the 6 signs in this set. They instill a passion for cooking and respect for the profession!
Service - Smiling / Serving / Selling

"REMEMBER - WHO GETS WHAT!", "KNOW YOUR MENU - Ingredients, Cooking Methods, Pronunciation, Taste" These eight signs will help sales grow and put smiles on your staff and your customers’ faces!
Safety - General

"CLEAN WHEN YOU CLEAN", "BE HERE NOW - Attention!", "HEY - LOOK WHERE YOU’RE GOING!" 11 signs in this set remind all employees to be alert, clean, careful and "on-purpose"
Safety - Food Temperatures & Time

These 8 posters address the critical temperatures your staff needs to control in order to NOT serve food-borne illness. Topics cover the Food Danger Zone, Maximum Refrigeration Temps, Minimum Cooking Times & Temperatures, Thawing Procedures… 
in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
Safety - Knives

"LET A FALLING KNIFE FALL", "Knives are NOT: Can Openers, Hammers, Scrapers, Wedges, Screwdrivers, Chisels, Fingernail Cleaners, Bottle Openers or Tasting Spoons…Really!" 8 signs that both teach and encourage knife safety! Use, storage, carrying and washing.
Safety - Sinks

"NO FATS IN SINKS OR DRAINS -This means no Grease, Butter, Shortening, Icings or Oil", "Food Sink", "Food Prep ONLY". Six signs to help keep these important fixtures clean and functioning, safely.
Safety - Ice Machine

"A Glass Is An Ice-Scoop? NOT!", "Store The Ice-Scoop In The Ice? - Nope, Never, Not Here!" Eight signs to keep the ice clean, legal and safe… plus keep the floor dry!
Storage Practices

"Cover, Label & Date ALL Items!", "First - In, First - Out / Rotate the Stock!" Eleven signs encouraging professional Storage practices: Crushing cartons, Storing laundry, Chemical Storage and more!
 

FORMS! FORMS! FORMS! - Set of 3 files

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KITCHEN OPERATIONS

Ordering & Receiving, Item Price-Change Log, Inter-Shift Messages, Production Order / Par Levels, Station Prep List, Freezer & Refrigerator Temperature Check Log. These Forms WORK! Tested through years of daily operations in a variety of kitchens.
CATERED EVENT PACKET

Based on years of successful, quality catering, the forms in this packet WORK! 10 forms to assure effective communication with the client, service staff and kitchen. The final packing list form, for instance, will organize your packing so you’ll never end up at the party location without a necessary platter, plate, tong or garnish.
Shift Scheduling

Our 4-page guideline to setting up a dining room shift schedule based on sales demands. This report contains practical schedule development advice based on years of successful front of the house experience including a variety of schedule format examples as well as sound advice on rotating Housekeeping chores!
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