Audits, Tasks and Communication
Retail and Hospitality Operations
The hotel industry is the quintessential "experiential" hospitality industry. For this reason, it is essential for a hotel to make a positive first impression before guests even check-in. Using a hotel checklist can help ensure hotel parking, lobby and common areas are up to standard. After all, consistent quality is one reason the hospitality industry can … Continue reading ✔️ Hotel Lobby and Common Areas Checklist
Retail audits, also called visits or inspections, drive higher compliance with store program and brand standards. They are part of the retail execution workflow and designed to increase sales and profit margins, boost customer satisfaction and cut business risks. Maybe you are starting a retail audit program from scratch. Maybe you have an existing program … Continue reading ⭐ How to Build a Retail Audit Checklist
Use this sample Restrooms Inspection Checklist to inspect your commercial restrooms and ensure they function properly and are not unpleasant for customers. For restrooms cleaning specifically, refer to the Commercial Restroom Cleaning Checklist. General Restrooms Are the restrooms' door and handle clean and in good repair? Is the restrooms' interior clean upon first impression? The … Continue reading ✔️ Restrooms Inspection Checklist
Use this sample Fire Protection Checklist to create or update your fire protection program across your sites and facilities. While individual situations vary, the following sample checklist details specific issues that may be included in an inspection checklist for fire protection. Methodology: This checklist was compiled from a number of sources and moderated using industry research. … Continue reading ✔️ Fire Protection Checklist
Loss prevention is a very real challenge for retailers. Shrinkage is a problem that costs retailers billions of dollars every year due to external theft, internal theft, and administrative errors. Regularly using a Loss Prevention Checklist across your locations ensures compliance with policy, reinforces training, and demonstrates loss prevention is a priority for your business. … Continue reading ✔️ Loss Prevention Checklist
To assist multi-unit retailers starting or improving their retail audit program, Bindy regularly publishes how-to guides, best practices and checklists. Use this sample checklist to create or update your commercial kitchen equipment checklist across your locations to keep kitchens operating at a high level. Preventative maintenance on kitchen equipment minimizes breakage, increases performance, reduces power consumption and extends … Continue reading ✔️ Equipment Checklist for Commercial Kitchens
Use this sample CPG Merchandising Checklist to create or update your visual merchandising program across your retail partner locations. Shelves Shelves are stocked. No product holes. There are no unauthorized items. All authorized items are stocked on the shelf. Correct planogram used for the location and category (attach a photo). Number of “facings” is appropriate … Continue reading ✔️ CPG Merchandising Checklist
A Pharmacy Inspection Checklist helps ensure stores have the right systems in place to comply with regulations and health and safety standards. Some of the information below comes from the office of the professional of New York State and is included here in case the information is moved or removed from their website. Premises Registered area … Continue reading ✔️ Pharmacy Inspection Checklist
The exterior areas around your stores are critically important to first impressions! Use an Exterior Area Checklist to ensure the area around your stores is clean, safe and invites customers to come into your stores. This sample Exterior Area Checklist comes from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety and is included here in case … Continue reading ✔️ Exterior Area Checklist for Commercial Sites
The parking industry is largely divided into two types: on-street parking and off-street parking. On-street parking is predominantly owned by municipalities while off-street parking is privately owned. Both types need to ensure lots are in good repair and compliant with regulations and customer expectations. Here is a sample Parking Lot Inspection Checklist to help you … Continue reading ✔️ Parking Lot Inspection Checklist
Use this checklist to ensure the restrooms at your hotel, restaurant or commercial facility remain clean and healthy for customers and staff. To ensure your restrooms function properly and are pleasant for customers, also refer to the Washrooms Inspection Checklist. Pre-cleaning Protective equipment worn, including gloves and goggles where spraying is involved. Wet Floor signs … Continue reading ✔️ Commercial Restrooms Cleaning Checklist
Use a store operations checklist and regularly inspect your locations to ensure brand standards are upheld and stores are running optimally. Use this sample Store Operations Checklist to create or update store standards or operations programs across your locations. First impressions On a scale of one to ten; how presentable is the store? Are carts … Continue reading ✔️ Store Operations Checklist
Eighty-six percent of retailers report there is a correlation between well-executed visual merchandising and conversion rates. Using a Visual Merchandising Checklist in-store helps ensure your programs are executed on time and across all locations. Use this sample Visual Merchandising Checklist to create or update your visual merchandising program across your locations. STORE EXTERIOR The store … Continue reading ✔️ Visual Merchandising Checklist
A comprehensive health and safety inspection program protects your business. Use this sample health and safety checklist to create or update your health and safety program across your locations. Employee Handwashing Employees are aware of company handwashing standards and practices including scrubbing hands for a minimum of 20 seconds and lathering backs of hands, between … Continue reading ✔️ Health and Safety Checklist for Retail and Hospitality
Incorporating a food safety checklist into your health and safety program not only keeps you compliant and protects the brand from claims, lawsuits, and other headaches but also encourages staff to act appropriately. “The audit process itself becomes a driver for people to not only comply, but to actually have the right behaviors and be … Continue reading ✔️ Food Safety Checklist
After a temporary closure, there is a lot to do to get your stores up and running and ready to welcome your customers back. Use this sample Store Reopening Checklist to make certain you don’t miss essential details. Employees Confirm employee readiness to return to work. Communicate reopening schedule as soon as possible with employees. … Continue reading ✔️ Store Reopening Checklist for Retailers
As movie theaters welcome guests post COVID-19, it is critical to have flawless execution of the guest experience. Cleanliness and sanitation are front and center in consumers' minds. Movie Theater Parking Area Ensure parking entrance has appropriate signage. Clear away any debris from parking areas. Check lot after peak periods. Remove and empty trash. See … Continue reading ✔️ Movie Theater Cleaning Checklist
An estimated 61 million Americans deal with some type of disability. It's critical to ensure your stores are accessible to all individuals. Using an accessibility checklist is a great place to start to see what efforts are already in place and how you can improve accessibility across all stores. Use this sample Accessibility Checklist for … Continue reading ✔️ Accessibility Checklist for Retailers
Whether you are a thrift store, consignment store or vintage retailer, you have a wide range of duties across several departments. From receiving and approving donations, sorting, pricing and finally merchandising items, using a Checklist for Thrift Stores will improve the performance of your operations...and your bottom line. Use this sample Checklist for Thrift Stores … Continue reading ✔️ Thrift Store Inspection Checklist
Key Performance Indicators are performance measurements that help you know if your business is reaching its goals and operating optimally. Use a KPI checklist to help you measure, detect and respond to dips in sales and margins and other strategic facets of your business. Below, some sample Key Performance Indicators to include on your KPI … Continue reading ✔️ KPI Checklist
A smart retail checklist has points, best-practice pictures, supporting files, conditionals and action plan recommendations. It allows company standards to be checked, deficiencies tracked, assigned and resolved. It guarantees programs and policies are deployed in full, in time, in every store. A smart checklist is built, then used in the audit workflow. Retailers and hospitality … Continue reading What is a Smart Checklist?
The cannabis retail checklist ensures that your dispensaries have the right processes and systems in place and meet regulatory, community and health and safety standards. Regulations do vary between US states and Canadian provinces. So this checklist is meant to help you get started in building a core collection of critical areas to inspect in … Continue reading ✔️ Cannabis Retail Checklist
Loss prevention is a set of policies and procedures designed to minimize theft, fraud, vandalism and waste. Use this sample Loss Prevention Checklist for Parking Operators to create or update your loss prevention program across your parking lots and sites. General Record date of the last LP Audit Location has a key control log for … Continue reading ✔️ Loss Prevention Checklist for Parking Operators
Use this sample checklist to create or update your wireless authorized retailer program across your retail locations. Checklists ensure that wireless authorized retailers merchandise and sell consistently with company standards and reseller contractual obligations. Regular audits help retailers and distributors be proactive and address issues before they become major problems. Audits also tend to cut … Continue reading ✔️ Checklist for Wireless Authorized Retailers
Use this sample Lottery retailer Checklist to create or update programs across your locations. Many gas stations, convenience stores, grocery stores, shopping mall kiosks and drug stores sell lottery products. However, selling lottery tickets and games carries certain legal and societal responsibilities. A lottery retailer checklist ensures that lottery tickets and games are merchandised and sold … Continue reading ✔️ Lottery Retailer Checklist
Use this sample Sexual Harassment Checklist to create or update your sexual harassment prevention program across your locations. Developing a comprehensive sexual harassment policy is only the first step to preventing and stopping harassment in the workplace. For any sexual harassment policy to be effective, policy development must be followed by persistent training, review, and … Continue reading ✔️ Sexual Harassment Checklist
Use this sample Drive-thru Checklist to create or update your drive-thru inspection program across your restaurants and sites equipped with a drive-thru. You can pick-up dinner, grab a coffee, do your banking and, at least in Las Vegas...get married all at the drive-thru! Customers value the convenience and speed of service of drive-thrus. Below, a … Continue reading ✔️ Drive-Thru Checklist
Use this sample checklist for Wine, Beer and Spirits Retailers to create or update your operations and merchandising programs across your retail locations. Checklists ensure that wine, beer and spirits are merchandised and sold consistently with company standards and regulations. Regular audits help retailers and distributors be proactive and address issues before they become major … Continue reading ✔️ Checklist for Wine, Beer and Spirits Retailers
Use this sample Hotel Safety and Security Checklist to create or update your inspection program across your hotels. Having the safety of a hotel property questioned can damage the brand and keep guests away. Below, a list of criteria for checking the safety of your hotel properties. Methodology: This checklist was compiled from a number of … Continue reading ✔️ Hotel Safety and Security Checklist
Use this sample Gas Station Checklist to create or update your inspection program across your gas stations. While individual situations vary, the following sample checklist details specific issues that may be included in a gas station inspection checklist. This checklist comes from the Australian Department of Mines and Petroleum and is included here in case the information is moved or … Continue reading ✔️ Petroleum Gas Station Checklist
This animal care checklist for pet stores is based on the Pet Retail Store Best Management Practices of the Pet Industry Advisory council. The Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC) has developed the following Best Management Practices (BMPs) as a guide for retail pet stores in developing excellent husbandry and care standards for the animals … Continue reading ✔️ Animal Care Checklist For Pet Stores
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