A few reminders about Patio Set up

Hi Team,

Recycling an old post here with several notes for 2017 (highlighted):

Our patio service stations are even more visible than the indoor ones, so we need to be extra careful with the set up. As follows:

The back station should be for clean things only:

In that station: 

- a box for roll ups (needs to stay there even if we are out of roll ups, as we bring roll ups back from tables after seating them and don't want the roll ups just seating on the rack.
- a box with "loosie" silverware. under the loosies: folded napkins for guests who need an extra, as well as folded clean kitchen towels! 2017 update: We've been using this one box for everything, but that slows us down (removing the loosies to get to roll-ups= not practical.)

- stacks of plates
- mise trays (not pictured)
- water pitchers (with the napkin folded over--not pictured)
- tray with glasses full of water. This is something we should be doing only during super rush hour. It doesn't look good, plus the water gets warm. I understand it needs to happen sometimes, but not always.

On the other hand, look what we've got!:

 Yep, that's an ice chest, full of ice (two buckets) and several water bottles with caps. The caps are re-used wine caps and should definitely not go to the tables. put them in the handy container to be re-used. Don't throw any out! Also, there is a bucket under the ice chest to collect the melted ice. Needs to be emptied at the end of the night, and checked again in the morning. This hasn't been happening as much as we'd hope. 

Now for the "other station":

This is where all the less clean things go. Please make it as neat as possible, and make sure we always have:

- Trash can on the left

- Recycling on the right (Update for 2017: we've successfully been putting the recycling can to the left of the trash can, I'm fine with that)

- a bus bucket and space for boards

- sanitizer and a container for torta jars. 

- one (or two) "in use" kitchen towels (on the right)

- one (or two) spray bottles

- a box for soiled linens

- a wine box with stack of check presenters, pens, extra printer paper, chili flake, S + P, any other things that float around. Into the box they go.

Also, one of these:

There is now one of these in every station. It should be self explanatory: it keeps signed receipts so that we don't loose so many, it also frees up more books to go to the tables. Do I even have to say this?: don't take these to tables!!

One more thing: please don't keep personal beverages in the patio server stations. A water bottle in the ice chest is fine, everything else should be in the inside station. It's hard enough to keep the space clean without a million starbucks cups. 

Happy Patio Season!