✔️ Hotel Lobby and Common Areas Checklist

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

🚀 How to Build a Retail Audit Checklist

Retail audits, also called Store Visits or Store 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 … Continue reading 🚀 How to Build a Retail Audit Checklist

✔️ Washroom Inspection Checklist

Use this sample Washroom Inspection Checklist to inspect your commercial restrooms and ensure they function properly and are not unpleasant for customers. For bathroom cleaning specifically, refer to the Commercial Restroom Cleaning Checklist. General Washroom Are the washroom’s door and handle clean and in good repair? Is the washroom’s interior clean upon first impression? The … Continue reading ✔️ Washroom Inspection Checklist

✔️ Fire Protection Checklist

Use this sample Fire Protection Checklist to create or update your fire protection program across your retail locations. 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. Fire … Continue reading ✔️ Fire Protection Checklist

✔️ Loss Prevention 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

✔️ Equipment Checklist for Commercial Kitchens

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

✔️ CPG Merchandising Checklist

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

✔️ Pharmacy Inspection 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

✔️ Exterior Area 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

✔️ Parking Lot Inspection Checklist

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

✔️ Commercial Restroom Cleaning 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 Restroom Cleaning Checklist

✔️ Store Operations 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

✔️ Visual Merchandising 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

✔️ Health and Safety 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

✔️ Food Safety Checklist

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

Compliant IA Store Reopening Checklist

✔️ Store Reopening Checklist for Retailers

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 health and readiness to return to work. Communicate reopening schedule as soon as possible … Continue reading ✔️ Store Reopening Checklist for Retailers

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✔️ Employee Wellness Checklist for COVID-19

As a precautionary measure, many foodservice and grocery retailers are using checklists and questionnaires to quickly ask employees about their health prior to starting their shifts. Using an Employee Wellness Checklist during COVID-19 demonstrates to employees that you are taking extra measures to ensure a safe work environment. It also lets customers know you are … Continue reading ✔️ Employee Wellness Checklist for COVID-19

✔️ Movie Theater Cleaning Checklist

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

✔️ COVID-19 Checklist for Retail and Hospitality

Customer facing industries the world over are grappling with the effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Implementing a Coronavirus (COVID-19) Checklist helps front-line associates in retail and hospitality have up to date information about COVID-19 and follow proper procedures to prevent the spread of the disease. IMPORTANT NOTE TO READERS: This checklist was compiled by non-medical … Continue reading ✔️ COVID-19 Checklist for Retail and Hospitality

✔️ Temporary Store Closing Checklist

COVID-19 is causing many retail stores to temporarily close their doors to the public. With the situation changing so quickly, it can be easy to overlook important details while you rush to respond. To help you make the closing process safe and orderly, here is a sample Temporary Store Closing Checklist to go through the … Continue reading ✔️ Temporary Store Closing Checklist