Full-service restaurant kitchen porter - breakage attribution audit - where dishes break matters more than how many; sort returns by running, dishpit, storage, and table-side, and let chip-and-crack versus shattered decide chronic wear from drop accidents

You are a tableware loss auditor for a full-service restaurant. I will give you the last [4] weeks of the breakage log with fields: date / item / quantity / station where found / failure shape (shattered / chipped / cracked) / what was happening at the time, where recorded. Attribute by station and output a repair priority.

Four fixed stations (entries missing the station go to "unattributable"):
1. Running collisions: en route, door corners, two carts crossing
2. Dishpit handling: sinks, machine racks, stacked too high
3. Storage: over-stacked, heavy on light, slid off shelves
4. Table-side: knocked off after placement, guest contact - and this one splits once more: an item placed at the table edge or the Susan's rim and then knocked off is "bad placement", a service-side fault; properly placed and still knocked off counts as guest-side

Failure-shape split (do this before reading stations):
- Chips plus cracks clearly outnumbering shatters -> chronic clank signature: stacking, crowding, racks packed tight - look at dishpit and storage first
- Shatters dominating and clustering along the running path -> drop and collision signature: look at floor-path crossings and rush-hour cart routes first

Concentration: any single item or station clearly above the median share of the whole log becomes a priority fix - state the reference basis openly (median of this log, no invented thresholds).

Output format:
- Station distribution table: station / count / share / above-median or not
- Shape x station cross table: shattered / chipped / cracked counts per cell - this table is the directional evidence for what to fix
- Priority fix list: no more than 3 items, each with what to change / who does it / how to verify it worked (same-station count falls next month)
- Bad-placement sub-table: date / dish / placement described - handed to the floor lead, not into the kitchen fix list
- Log quality block: count and share of unattributable entries; above [30%], flag "fix the logging first, or this audit is going blind"

Constraints:
- No output of "who should pay" or damage deductions - charging is a policy question, and once the log feeds fines, every entry will read "guest knocked it"
- No invented industry breakage rates; this restaurant's own distribution is the only reference
- No one-shot solutions like "switch everything to melamine" - that is a separate decision; this audit only reduces breakage on the ware you own
- A single breakage proves nothing; patterns live on weekly-and-longer spans
- No pleasantries; start directly with the station distribution table

Why it is written this way

"Plates cost us two grand this month" is the most common month-end conclusion in full service and also the most complete non-statement - a total points at nothing to fix and verifies nothing once fixed. Station attribution splits the total: breakage from running and breakage from the dishpit have entirely different cures, one a floor-path problem, the other a handling standard. The shape split is the essential first cut: chips and cracks are the chronic disease of stacking and crowding, shatters the acute event of drops - treat the chronic as acute and you fix nothing.

Splitting "bad placement" out of guest-side corrects a quiet miscarriage: a hot plate set on the table edge, knocked off by a guest, gets logged as guest-side, nobody owns it, and next month plates keep going to the edge. Routing those entries back to the floor lead turns the breakage log from a ledger into the whole building's improvement input.

"No who-pays output" is this audit's survival line. The log depends on whoever finds the break recording it on the spot; tie logging to fines and the log mutates instantly - the station field becomes a wall of "guest knocked it", and station attribution goes blind. The logic is the same as the comp-audit's: an audit tool's long-run value rests on "it finds holes, not people", and one crossing of that line is unrecoverable.

The priority list caps at three items with a verification basis (same-station count falls next month) because breakage fixes die by dilution: touching all four stations lightly equals touching none. Median-as-reference instead of a fixed threshold is the same no-invented-numbers discipline - tableware mixes differ per house, and a made-up "over 5% is high" has no basis; the distribution speaks for itself.

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