SOPs for Restaurants: Opening, Closing, Food-Safety (2026)

Restaurants run on SOPs — opening, closing, food-safety (HACCP), POS operation, cash reconciliation. The format matters more than in most industries: kitchen and floor staff want short, laminated, glanceable cards, not 12-page PDFs. Capture digitally with [Haiku](/reviews/haiku) or [Scribe](/reviews/scribe) for the source of truth, then print condensed versions for the floor. Multi-location groups pair the capture tool with [Trainual](/reviews/trainual) to keep consistency across sites. See the [restaurant opening checklist template](/templates/restaurant-opening-checklist-sop) for a filled example.