Sanitation management…Wanted to hire…

Sanitation management …Wrapping it up

So we’ve created a great sanitation program that identified every item and surface that requires cleaning, estimated the time required for each task, assigned each to a station and even rebalanced those stations so that they were reasonably equivalent. We even took the time to make certain that the necessary cleaning equipment was on hand to allow them to all be done.

Now that programmed sanitation plan just needs to be done.

That’s where managing its’ implementation by the accounts management comes in. To properly arm them to do that one more step is needed. It’s to assemble a binder that has tabs for each station and the calendar of the tasks assigned to each one. Armed with that tool management can audit the program’s ongoing implementation.

When they see that slicer isn’t really clean, one glance at that binder will tell them station number two was responsible for that task – and that was to be done daily. That nicely eliminates the “It’s not my job” excuse. Likewise that dirty walk in cooler exterior that’s supposed to be cleaned every Monday cancels that baloney comeback of, “I was going to do that tomorrow”.

Creating and managing a programmed sanitation program takes a lot of effort but the end result is a cleaner kitchen, a happier customer and an account whose cleanliness doesn’t provide the competition a crack they can use to make inroads.

Wanted to hire…A VP of OR

Every organization ought to have a position listed in its organization chart titled “The Vice President of Revolution”. That’s the person (probably the owner of the outfit) who can propose any idea however outlandish, and it at least gets a hearing.

Now to be sure the holder of the VPOR position has to be open to being swayed by his team’s input to alter it – or even abandon it outright if there’s good reason to do so. But the important point is he can offer up an idea that no one else would have the courage (or recklessness) to say out loud.

But even if the VPOR’s idea never sees the light of day as an executed plan, it at least gets some level of consideration. And even if that’s all it amounts to, chances are still good that it might influence some ongoing program or policy to the betterment of the business.

So take a look at your business and see if just maybe all it needs to get a real shot in the arm is the addition of that no added expense position. Just maybe assigning it a VPOR could turn out to be the best “hire” you’ve ever made.