Restaurant tasks
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Tasks
Every task gets an owner, a due time and the steps to do it right, with proof where it matters and a reminder before it's late.
Task Library
Browse Gid Library for ready templates, or save your own with their instructions and the points to monitor, then add them to the day.
On the phone
A checklist task is done when its items are ticked, one by one, on the phone of the person doing them.
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Give every task one owner, a due time and a written standard, ask for proof only where the risk is, and follow up before it is late, not the next morning. The lists above are a place to start.
A task goes to a person, with its department. Smart Assign puts first the people working at that time in the task's role, and tasks attached to a shift go to the person working it.
Yes. A task can ask for a photo, before and after photos, a signature, notes, or a reading checked against its safe range.
Gid reminds the person it is assigned to and, after the delay you set, the manager too.
Yes. Repeat a task daily, weekly or monthly, and Gid creates each copy on its own.
$29 USD per location per month at the Founders rate, $89 USD at the public rate, with your whole team included; adding people never raises your bill. The tasks, the schedule, the team chat and the training are the same app, at the same price.
Four lists, one per station: the dining room and host stand, the kitchen line and its temperatures, the bar, and the manager's cash, tech and pre-shift huddle. Each item should be something a person can see and tick, not a reminder to be careful.
The same four stations, in the order the night ends: server checkouts and the dining room, the line breakdown and storage, the bar well, then the manager's cash and lockup. End with a pass-down note, so the opener knows what ran out and what broke.
Give each list an owner, and ask for proof only where the risk is: a photo of the clean line, a sign-off on the cash and the lockup. In Gid, a checklist can require a photo or a sign-off and can wait for a manager to validate it, and the opener sees who finished what.
Yes. Set a checklist task to repeat every day, on the weekdays you choose, or once a month, and Gid creates each copy on its own. If one runs late, the person it is assigned to gets a reminder and, after the delay you set, the manager does too.
Yes. Copy them, change them and pin them up; no account needed. To run them in Gid, create a free workspace, no card.
$29 USD per location per month at the Founders rate, $89 USD at the public rate, with your whole team included; adding people never raises your bill. The checklists, the schedule, the team chat and the training are the same app, at the same price.
An app that keeps your standard operating procedures, recipes and menus where the team works, on the phone, instead of in a binder. In Gid they sit next to the tasks and the training that use them.
Only if you decide so. HR policies and financial documents start as managers only, and you can set any document to everyone, managers only, or executives only.
Yes. Ask Gid a question and it answers from your documents. Archive a document and Gid stops using it for answers unless someone asks for it.
Yes. Upload them under Menus, where each document has a type: standardized recipe cards, build sheets, plating guides, prep lists, par sheets, the allergen matrix or server cheat sheets.
PDF, Word, Excel and CSV files, photos and videos. A manager can also turn an uploaded schedule or task list into shifts and tasks.
$29 USD per location per month at the Founders rate, $89 USD at the public rate, with your whole team included; adding people never raises your bill. The documents, the training, the tasks and the team chat are the same app, at the same price.
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Why tasks slip
Tasks rarely fail because people do not care. They fail because nobody knew they were theirs.
Ownership
Somebody should clean the ice machine is a task for nobody. On a busy night, nobody does it.
Memory
The weekly and monthly jobs get done when the person who remembers them is working.
Proof
A checked box says someone was there. It does not say the walk-in was at temperature.
Timing
A missed task shows up the next morning, when the opener finds it.
Standard
The job was done, just not the way the manager meant, because the standard was never written down.
Hand-off
When someone gives their work away for the evening, the tasks that came with it stay with the wrong person.
The task list
Three lists to copy, and the five things every task needs. Change what does not fit your restaurant.
Every day
Every week
Every month
Every task
How Gid runs each task
The same list, run in the app your team already has on its phone.
| What it needs | In Gid |
|---|---|
| An owner | Every task has an assignee, a department and a priority. Smart Assign puts first the people working at that time in the task's role. |
| A due time that repeats | Set the due time, then repeat the task daily, weekly or monthly. Gid creates each copy on its own. |
| Tasks that follow the work | Attach tasks to a shift when you create it, and they go to the person working it. If the shift is given away or covered in the Shift Marketplace, its open tasks move to whoever takes it. |
| Proof where the risk is | Ask for a photo, before and after photos, a signature, notes, or a reading checked against its safe range. |
| A manager's review | A task can stay pending until a manager approves it. |
| A reminder before it is too late | A late task reminds the person it is assigned to and, after the delay you set, the manager too. |
| The whole team sees the day | Everyone on the team can see the day's tasks, and a task shared in the team chat carries its status with it. |
| The how-to, one tap away | Link a training to a task or a task template, and the task shows it as its linked training. |
How it works in Gid
Three views, one app, nothing copied from one to the other.
Step 1
Browse Gid Library for ready templates, or save your own with their instructions and the points to monitor, then add them to the day.
Step 2
Share a task into the team chat and its status travels with it, so the reply and the work stay together.
Step 3
The command center shows the team's task performance, and owners get an analysis of completion patterns and where work slips.
A real day
An example of one day of tasks, followed by the app instead of by memory.
Morning
The opening cook sees the day's tasks on the phone: the temperature readings, the line check and the prep, each with its standard.
Afternoon
A server gives away the evening in the Shift Marketplace. The sidework tasks attached to it move to the person who takes it.
Night
The ice machine cleaning is late. Gid reminds the closer, then the manager, before the lights go off.
The stack you have today
Nothing here is a knock on any specific tool. It is what happens when the schedule, the tasks, the training, the chat, the documents and the guest reviews were never built to know about each other.
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The honest part
Not every restaurant needs a task app. Here is when yours does not.
Restaurant operations • Checklists
Copy these opening and closing checklists for front of house, the kitchen, the bar and the manager, free. Gid then runs each one every day, with an owner, proof where it matters and a live view of what is done.
Why checklists slip
Every restaurant has an opening list and a closing list. The trouble is rarely the list itself.
The binder
It was written once, pinned up, and now it is part of the wall. Nobody signs it, so nobody can tell whether it was followed on Tuesday.
The close
A tick at the end of the night is not a clean fryer at open. When the morning finds the problem, the closer has gone home and the shift starts behind.
The person
The real standard lives in the head of your best closer. On their night off, the standard takes the night off too.
Opening checklists
Four lists, one per station. Copy them into your binder, change what does not fit your room, and give each one an owner.
Front of house
Kitchen
Bar
Manager
Closing checklists
A good close is a gift to the opener. The same four stations, in the order the night actually ends.
Front of house
Kitchen
Bar
Manager
How it works in Gid
Three steps, in the same app your team already opens for the schedule and the chat.
Step 1
Browse Gid Library holds an Opening Tour and a Closing Tour that walk every area, plus shorter lists for the line, the dish area, the POS and the lockup. Activate one as it is, change it, or start from scratch with the lists above.
Step 2
Set the checklist to repeat every day, on the weekdays you choose, or once a month, and Gid creates each day's copy on its own. Assign it to the people who open or close, and share it in the chat when it needs a word.
Step 3
Everyone on the team can see the day's tasks, so the opener knows what the closer finished. A late checklist reminds the person it is assigned to and, after the delay you set, the manager too.
Proof, not a tick
Match the proof to the risk. Most items only need a tick; a few deserve more.
A checklist task is done when its items are ticked, one by one, on the phone of the person doing them.
Ask for a photo of the clean line or the stocked bar, or a temperature reading for the walk-in, so the standard is the same whoever closes.
The Closing Tour asks for a sign-off on the kitchen line, the cash and the lockup, so each of those carries a name.
A checklist can wait for a manager to validate it before it counts as done, which suits the lockup and the cash.
A real close
An example of the closing lists above on a busy night, built from the templates Gid ships.
Last tables
Each closing server has the sidework checklist on their phone. The closing manager walks the section and signs off the checkout before the cash-out.
Kitchen down
The closing cook ticks the line breakdown and adds a photo of the clean line. The dish area close-down runs beside it, on the dishwasher's phone.
Lockup
The Closing Tour walks every area, with sign-offs on the line, the cash and the lockup. In the morning the opener sees what was done, and by whom, before touching a switch.
The honest part
The lists above work on paper. Here is when that is all you need.
Restaurant operations • SOPs
Procedures live in a binder, recipe cards in a drawer and the menu in a file on one laptop. Gid keeps them in the app, each open to the right people, and answers the team's questions from them.
Why SOPs go unread
Most restaurants have written procedures. Few can find the current one during service.
Findability
The closing procedure is in a binder in the office. At midnight, nobody goes to get it.
Versions
The recipe card on the line, the one in the drawer and the one in the owner's email no longer agree.
Access
A shared drive shows HR policies to everyone, or hides the prep lists from the people who need them.
Questions
A new cook wants the par for the sauce. The answer exists, but asking a busy sous chef is faster.
Training
The training says one thing, the task says another, and the procedure is in a third place.
Change
A procedure changes and the team hears about it by accident, weeks later.
The SOP library
A list to copy. Most restaurants already have half of it, spread across binders, drawers and inboxes.
Front of house
Kitchen
Bar
Management
Where each document goes
How the library above maps to Operations Knowledge in Gid, and who can open each part by default.
| Document | In Gid |
|---|---|
| Operations guides | Filed under Operations Guides, and open to everyone by default. |
| Recipe cards, build sheets, plating guides, prep lists, par sheets, the allergen matrix | Filed under Menus, each with its type, and open to everyone by default. |
| Server cheat sheets and training materials | Filed under Menus or Training Materials, and open to everyone by default. |
| Safety protocols | Filed under Safety Protocols, and open to everyone by default. |
| HR policies and financial documents | HR policies and financial documents start as managers only, unless you decide otherwise. |
| Anything sensitive | Set who can open each document: everyone, managers only, or executives only. |
How Gid uses them
Upload PDF, Word, Excel and CSV files, photos and videos. Gid suggests a category, and you keep the one that fits.
Employees open the documents they are allowed to see in Operations Knowledge, view only, on their phone.
Ask Gid a question and it answers from your documents. Archive a document and Gid stops using it for answers unless someone asks for it.
A task carries its step-by-step instructions, and can open the training that explains it.
How it works in Gid
The same standard, in the task, the training and the chat, without copying it by hand.
Step 1
A task in the Task Library carries its instructions and the points to monitor, so the standard is on the phone of whoever does the work.
Step 2
Build a training from your menu, or write your own from the procedure, and assign it to the people who need it.
Step 3
When a procedure changes, link the new document or the task into the team chat, so the team sees the new version.
A real change
An example of one change, made once and found where the work happens.
The change
The chef changes the sauce and uploads the new recipe card under Menus. Everyone on the team can open it.
The line
The prep task for the sauce gets the new step in its instructions, so the morning cook follows the new version.
The question
Mid-afternoon, a new cook asks Gid how much of the sauce to prep, and Gid answers from the par sheet the kitchen uploaded.
The honest part
Not every restaurant needs an SOP app. Here is when yours does not.
About this page
Members of the Gid team owned and operated restaurants before building software. The task lists above are free to reuse. If your team needs something it misses, tell us at contact@gidai.ca.
One connected operations app for restaurant teams: scheduling, tasks, team chat, continuous training, onboarding, performance evaluations and an AI assistant grounded in your own documents. One price per location, whole team included.
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Last updated October 25, 2026