Some jobs a Coffee Shop & Cafe shift never has time for, so they get their own weekly slot. These 5 checks are the deep clean and safety layer you run once a week, not every day. Descale the espresso machine on its schedule, check the grinder burrs for wear and clean them, and deep-clean the whole bar area, including under and behind the equipment. Then run the weekly safety pair: a full pest check of the shop, and a calibration of every thermometer. Do them on the same day each week and sign the log.
The jobs that do not fit a daily shift: descaling the espresso machine on schedule, checking and cleaning the grinder burrs, deep-cleaning the whole bar including under and behind equipment, a full pest check of the shop, and calibrating every thermometer.
On the machine's set schedule, run as a weekly task rather than left until the shot slows. Descaling removes mineral build-up that changes brew temperature and, left too long, damages the boiler.
A probe that drifts makes every fridge and holding check that week meaningless. Checking each thermometer once a week against a known point catches the drift before it hides a real temperature problem.
One free app has all of them: open the Coffee Shop & Cafe Checklists app - offline, no account, add it to your home screen.
This is the manual version