Hotpot restaurant cleaning supervisor - in-service patrol cleaning checklist: one loop an hour through the peak - the sauce station, the floors, and the bathrooms each carry their own checkpoints

You are a restaurant floor management consultant. Take this
"in-service patrol cleaning checklist" and complete it into a
one-page printable job sheet for my store. I'll give you the
layout (storefront orientation / sauce station location /
bathroom location / table count); reorder the stations along
my guest path and keep every other clause exactly as written.

[PATROL RULES - read first]
- Fixed route: every loop starts at the storefront and
  follows the station order to the end - same line, no
  backtracking
- Baseline frequency: one loop per trading hour; under
  waitlist-full, rain, or event-day conditions, apply the
  surge table below
- Every station item picks one of three: act now / wait for
  the table to turn / log it onto the closing list - the
  decision rule is written into each item, never left to
  feel
- Carry the kit: small cart or waist pouch (spray bottle,
  two cloths, squeegee, restroom stock key) - never patrol
  empty-handed

[Station 1 - Storefront and entrance]
[ ] Fingerprints and push marks on the glass door: wipe now
    (a thirty-second action)
[ ] Mat condition and water at the entrance: handle
    continuously in rain; curled mat edges flattened
    immediately
[ ] Umbrella stand and bag dispenser (rain): empty when
    full, refill when out
- Surge rule: rain doubles this station's frequency

[Station 2 - Waitlist area]
[ ] Water rings and paper cups on tables: act now
[ ] Waiting chairs realigned and seats wiped: act during
    turnover gaps
[ ] Waitlist floor litter: pick up anytime
- Surge rule: when the waitlist is full, this station gets
  its own extra frequency, independent of the full loop

[Station 3 - Dining room floors (the station that bites)]
[ ] Broth spills: find the window with the fewest guests
    crossing - usually after the whole party is seated and
    the pot is rolling; lay paper to absorb oil first, then
    wet-mop, then place the wet-floor sign immediately -
    the sign stays until the floor is dry
[ ] Scattered napkins and food debris: pick now, don't mop
[ ] Mopping discipline: single-lane mopping (mop one lane,
    leave one dry lane); wide wet mopping banned at peak;
    every wet mop followed by a wet-floor sign
- Decision rule: wet-mop only when "no guest is heading
    into the area"; otherwise absorb first and log

[Station 4 - Sauce station (the invisible turn-rate
bottleneck)]
[ ] Soup stains and spilled condiments on the counter:
    wipe now
[ ] Low jars: refill below the one-third line (log to
    tomorrow's order)
[ ] Crusted jar rims: wipe now; heavy crust means swap the
    jar - dirty jars go to the closing list
[ ] Shifted anti-slip mat and seepage beneath: straighten
    immediately; seepage logged to the closing list (mats
    are never lifted during service)
[ ] Wilted cilantro and scallions: replace fresh - this is
    a guest's first read of "dirty" at the station, seen
    before any counter stain
- Surge rule: at peak (e.g., 18:30-20:30 dinner) this
  station doubles

[Station 5 - Trash and the service lane]
[ ] Table-side bins: re-bag at eighty percent full
[ ] Drips and spills in the lane: handle now, especially
    during plate-traffic peaks
- Decision rule: the lane is shared by staff and guests -
    a drip there is more dangerous than one among the
    tables

[Station 6 - Bathrooms (fifteen minutes of lag is one
review)]
[ ] Open every stall door and check: stains handled now
[ ] Floor water: squeegee anytime
[ ] Paper and soap: refill below the one-third line
[ ] Odor: spray treats the symptom only - find the source
    (drain / trash) and log it to the closing list
- Decision rule: the bathroom check isn't about whether
  it looks dirty - it's "will the next person to walk in
  wince"
- Surge rule: at waitlist-full or full-house, this station
  doubles and runs as an out-of-turn insert (not waiting
  for the loop to come around)

[PATROL LOG]
[ ] One timestamp per loop (station names + times); the
    supervisor's spot check of the log shows whether
    patrols idle
[ ] Items "logged to the closing list" get summarized to
    the supervisor that loop, who slots them into closing
    or next-day work

[NEVER]
- Never compete with guests for right-of-way, never rush a
  guest aside - cleaning always yields, including waiting
  at the bathroom door
- Never spray broadly in front of seated guests (odor and
  droplets) - the spray bottle is for unoccupied tables
  and counters only
- At peak, never do anything that could wait for closing -
  the patrol cleans "what guests can see right now";
  everything else belongs to the closing shift

Deliverable: reorder stations along my layout, every other
clause verbatim; append a "three surge conditions table"
(rows: stations; columns: normal / rain / waitlist-full /
event day).

Why it is written this way

The three-way decision structure - act now / wait for the turn / log to closing - is what turns patrol cleaning from "run on conscientiousness" into "run on rules." The hard part of in-service cleaning is not the work but the timing judgment - cleaners are either overly cautious (mess sits untouched, afraid of disturbing guests) or overly bold (squeezing past guests with a wet mop). Writing the decision rule into every item (the after-seating window, "no guest heading into the area," "will the next person wince") catches both extremes; every move the cleaner makes has a rule behind it.

The floor station's "single-lane mopping" and "the sign stays until the floor is dry" carry the highest safety weight on this sheet. Broth-plus-water is instantly slick, and a wide wet mop amounts to laying an ice rink by hand; pulling the wet-floor sign early removes the only warning standing on that rink. One violation of either discipline can cost a fall injury - the sheet writes them as hard rules, not advice, precisely because advice dissolves in peak-hour chaos and hard rules at least have a chance of being remembered.

"Wilted cilantro gets replaced" ranks ahead of counter wiping at the sauce station because the order follows guest perception, not staff convenience. The guest walking up sees the wilted cilantro basin first - it broadcasts "not fresh" far louder than a counter smear. Cleaning lists ordered by how the staff work (counters first, stock second) reflect the crew's convenience; a perception list ordered by the guest's eye inverts it. This checklist chooses the guest's eye, because the patrol's sole purpose is managing what the guest perceives right now.

The bathroom standard "will the next person to walk in wince" looks vague and is the most executable rule on the sheet: it puts the checker in the user's position and skips the debate over "what's the standard." And the out-of-turn insert under surge rules concedes a reality - bathroom problems age in minutes while other stations age in hours; by the time the loop comes around, fifteen minutes passed and the review posted. Tiered surging keeps limited patrol capacity pressed onto the most dangerous time-and-place combinations.

Variables