Free template

One-page SOP template

One routine per page, written the way you would teach it. A routine that lives in someone's head leaves when they do.

How to use it

01Pick the one routine that breaks most when you are not in the building, and write that page first.
02Fill it in with the person who actually does the job, not from the office. They know the real order.
03Hand the finished page to someone who has never done it and watch once. Every question they ask is a missing step.
04Add a line to the manager's daily checklist — check the page still matches the shift — so it stays alive.

One-page SOP template

Site ______________ Week beginning ____ / ____ / ______

Swipe the sheet sideways to see every column.

Prompt	Your standard
The routine this page covers (one routine per page)
Who owns it
What starts it — the trigger, not the time
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
Step 6
Step 7
Step 8
Reviewed on — and by

A step is finished when someone else can see it was finished: 'flat top scraped and down', not 'clean the flat top'.
Steps in the order you would teach a new starter, not the order they appear in the building.
Date the page and read it every 3 months. A stale page records how you used to run, not how you run.

Completed by ____________________ Time ______ Checked by ____________________

This is a working sheet, not a legal record. Set your own targets and frequencies, and keep whatever your local authority asks you to keep.

Restaurant Operations Audit

One sheet fixes one part of the day. Which part of your operation is most exposed?

The Audit is 9 questions about how you open, close, clean, log temperatures, hand over and track waste. It takes about 3 minutes on a phone. You get a scored report back: where you are exposed, what to fix first, and what a good standard looks like for your type of site.

Every line in the report is traceable to something you told us. It is free, and it makes no claim about your legal or food-safety position.

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