5:55 Pull into parking lot (look around for anything out of the norm)
6 Enter building and deactivate the alarm
6:05 Read Managers Log from the close
6:10 Walk Restaurant and review the close from the night before (make Notes)
Etc
Imagine You Had a Detailed List of Everything You Do
If you did it you would have a pretty strong “How to Guide” for your restaurant or what we refer to as an Operations Manual. Granted this takes time, but as the old saying goes “How do you eat an elephant? …One bite at a time” Start with the basics and work to more detailed items later. I suggest start with Opening Checklist and Closing Checklist. It makes the most sense to enlist someone to help with one of these because you cannot be there all the time. So if you can’t be there but “Your List” is there for them to follow and sign off when done then you should get pretty close results to what you would do. They will miss stuff at first or not do it with as much detail but that is why you delegate not abdicate. Delegation has the one major difference – You Must Follow-up!
