If you are assigned to a hotel’s restaurant or kitchen, you need to know how to clean it. You should also know when to do it and how often to do it. It might be helpful if you have a check list that you can go through, so you know you will be able to give the kitchen a thorough cleaning. Restaurant kitchens are quite tricky to clean if you do not know how to do it properly – and you should! After all, this is the place where foods are prepared and if you do not clean it properly, you could end up with customers complaining of food poisoning or something worst.
There are some things that chefs and kitchen staff need to do immediately without waiting for the Stewarding Department to do these things for them. These are the things that should be done while the work is going on or immediately after a certain cooking task is completed. For instance, the kitchen staff should immediately clean and wipe down various cooking areas the minute they are finished with a particular task. The grill should be clean after cooking meat or fish. They also need to change cutting boards after use or clean rags or cloths after using them. They also need to empty trash bins. Of course, some of these tasks can be left to the Stewarding Department as part of the department’s daily cleaning activities.
Daily Cleaning Checklist
Weekly Cleaning Checklist
Monthly Cleaning Checklist
Chef Matt G is the guy behind the Stewarding Department, he is a well seasoned all rounder when it comes to all things kitchen related as well is a mad keen blogger in all aspects of the term.