Restaurant Kitchen Bottleneck Worksheet
Walk the food through a real shift. Record where work waits, people cross paths, or ingredients move unnecessarily, then assign a practical test.
How to use this worksheet
- Observe a representative busy service and include prep and closing.
- Mark a step In place only when the flow is working in practice. Put specific observations in the notes.
- Choose a testable change, an owner, and a review date. The list follows production flow rather than an invented efficiency score.
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