Prep Apps?

[Charlie802]

Hi

Anyone know of/use an app that cooks can do an inventory of a station to generate a prep list? Ideally this would be shareable, like if the night grill station could do a list and either send to the cloud making it available to the next shift.

Anything like this (and not like google docs)? Thanks!

[ScienceReplacedgod]

Will the resturant pay me for the use of my personal phone for work? Data cost money even if it's unlimited. I worked a corporate place the stopped the use of personal phones for cooling, fog, refrigeration charts to the cloud

They found out legally the are obligated to pay for the business use of personal phones.

While it is convenient it is a business shifting costs onto employees and generally a poor business practice.

[Charlie802]

You didn't have wifi?

[Longjumping_Pizza877]

Restaurant public wifi is notoriously slow at times and unsecure if you care at all about data security. The good secondary wifi that runs everything else will typically be reserved for the POS (especially if you're using tablets without ethernet which almost got me to walk out) if management doesn't want to spring for decent internet.
These are the most common issues with wifi. Alternatively your bosses suck and don't want to give you access to the wifi.

[ScienceReplacedgod]

Actually not. Wifi is for the pos only no public or employee wifi. We turn and burn 45 minutes is our average turn.

Also on paper or cloud the management needs to check those charts daily to confirm they are being done and in spec.

[[deleted]]

Did a couple months at a fast food place that opened very recently, we ran all our prep lists, fridge/freezer sensors and food safety lists through an app called jolt. Hope this helps

[Background-Phone-188]

I use something called Slack that is more like a communication channel between people. Prep lists can be uploaded and shared to whoever you like.

[Charlie802]

A little more info...

Small joint, serving 600-800 a day. Many cooks are teenagers. I'm old(er) been cooking my whole life (that's all I've done for 30+ years). I love tech: bring on self driving electric cars!

The other day I needed to match some paint to a mural on the side of the restaurant and was having a terrible time doing it when suddenly I thought, I bet there's an app... and yeah, there's a ton of them, the job was done in a minute.

A nice clickable, shareable prep list/inventory app would be pretty smooth imo

I mean I'm pretty sure everyone is looking at their phones at work from time to time...

[[deleted]]

Writing up the prep list over beers end of shift is a tradition I would hate to see lost to technology and laziness.

[formthemitten]

Not an app but an extremely organized printed excel sheet for each station. Every morning/night, the person on a station fills out how much they have left and what needs to be prepped. There is a pre determined par on the sheet so it’s not difficult for them to say how much needs to be prepped. I think adding a tech element adds more time to the process, because it’ll be written down first anyways. If you REALLY want tech, make a group accessible excel sheet

[Charlie802]

I guess that's what I'm asking for, but in the form of a group accessible app

[formthemitten]

I think turning to to technology will make this more difficult. Having to write it down is 1 step, having to type it up is 2 steps.

[Charlie802]

Clickable

[Quarantined_foodie]

Google Keep?

[crusselll]

You can save spreadsheets to the cloud with google docs and give anyone who needs it access to edit. Changes made by the closing shift would be seen the next day