Restaurant guide 03

Prepare the restaurant for a careful launch.

Use this checklist with the people who own the phone, menu, payments, and shift handoff. It turns a loose setup into a review your team can repeat.

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Name the people and the handoffs

Decide who owns a call that needs a person, who covers when that person is busy, and where the follow-up belongs. A clear handoff is more useful than a vague promise.

Give the team access before the first busy shift and agree on who checks the workspace.

Review what callers can hear

Confirm the published hours, last-order time, menu choices, and unavailable items. Ask the team to listen for the questions guests ask most often and make sure the restaurant has an answer.

Do not treat a draft as a finished menu. Review the version the restaurant is actually using.

Finish the operational checks

Walk through the remaining setup tasks in the workspace, including the payment path if your restaurant uses payment links. Keep the launch paused if a required step is still incomplete.

After launch, review the first calls and orders with the team and update the written handoff rules where needed.

Checklist

Bring this to the shift.

Check each item with the person who owns it. Print this page if a paper copy will help the team work through it together.

  1. 01Confirm hours, including the final order time.
  2. 02Review and publish the menu your callers should use.
  3. 03Give the people on shift the access they need.
  4. 04Review the remaining setup items before activation.
  5. 05If you use payment links, review payment setup.

Keep the next decision visible.

Return to the workspace when you are ready to review the restaurant’s current setup with the team.

Open setup