Flipping Main Hall

What is this task?

After guests have left, tables must be cleared and sanitized, chairs must be sanitized and flipped onto tables, and the floor must be dry mopped and mopped.

Why does this task matter?

Tables and floors will not get cleaned for the next event.

When does this happen?

Before event day, End of night, Post-event

Who is responsible?

Reception Crew

Flip Crew

Weekly Staff

What do you need to do the task?

Dry mop

Black or green sanitizing bucket

Plastic soda cup

Sanitizing solution

Cleaning rags

Mop bucket

Mop head

Step-By-Step

1. Once the guests have left and the tables have been cleared from dinnerware, glassware (see "Bussing Dinnerware and Glassware"), and Something Borrowed items (see "Replacing Something Borrowed items"), locate the round green bucket or black rectangle bucket in the Cleaning Closet between the kitchen and Dinnerware Closet.

2. Ask the bar crew for a plastic soda cup.

3. Bring the plastic soda cup to the dishpit.

4. To the left of the faucet is a small box with red button and a transparent tube coming out from it. Place the tube in the cup and press and hold the red button until the cup is filled ????HALFWAY???? with sanitizer.

5. Dump the sanitizer into the green or black sanitizing bucket.

6. Turn on the faucet in the dish pit by pushing down on the silver handle attached to the right side of the faucet. Run the hot water by rotating the horizontal handle to the left of the faucet towards the right.

7. Let the water run until it's hot.

8. Once hot, fill the green or black bucket with water to dilute the sanitizer.

9. Now get a white cleaning rag from the small plastic drawer in the hallway between the Dinnerware closet and kitchen (straight across from the Cleaning Closet).

10. Bring the cleaning rag and now full sanitizing bucket to the Main Hall.

11. Submerge the cleaning rag in the sanitizing bucket, wring out excess sanitizing solution, and begin wiping the table's entire surface. Ensuring that crumbs and other messes are wiped off the table.

12. Repeat with all the tables in the Main Hall.

13. Once the tables have been sanitized, wipe down the chairs by pulling them away from the table and wiping the entire surface- seat, backrest, and back of the backrest.

14. Flip the now sanitized chair upside down onto the sanitized table, and repeat with the following chairs.

15. Once all the chairs have been sanitized and flipped upside down onto the tables, dump the solution from the sanitizing bucket in the tub in the Cleaning Closet, locate a dry mop stored behind the second sliding barn door of the storage closet. The dry mop has a long, wooden handle and a long, rectangular, cotton mop head.

16. Starting closest to the bar, push the dry mop down the Main Hall, along the windows looking out to the Porch to collect dust, crumbs, wrappers, etc. Swivel to avoid table legs, plants, or other objects.

17. Once you've pushed the dry mop to the other end end, keep the mop head on the floor and rotate yourself and the mop so you are now facing the bar. Keep debris under the mop head.

18. Push the dry mop over the surface adjacent to the one you had just moped.

19. Repeat over the entire Main Hall, keeping the debris under the mop head or making small piles as you go.

20. Locate a broom and dustpan in the Cleaning Closet, and sweep up and discard the piles of debris into the trash.

21. Now that the Main Hall is dry moped, replace the dry mop in the storage closet.

22. Go to the cleaning closet, and find a yellow mop bucket, and pour one plastic soda cup worth of sanitizer into the mop bucket (similar to step 4).

23. Run the hot water in the tub in the Cleaning Closet. Fill the yellow mop bucket with sanitizer with hot water to the “fill line” to dilute.

24. Obtain a mop from the Cleaning Closet.

25. Roll the yellow mop bucket and bring the mop into the Main Hall.

26. Put the mop head in the mop bucket, and wring it out by putting the mop head in the basket and pushing the black vertical handle towards the front of the bucket.

27. Place the mop head on the 10 foot floor square closest to the bar.

28. Press the mop head into the floor and mop side to side across the entire surface of the 10 foot square. Ensure that food, spills, and footprints are scrubbed off the floor.

29. When the mop becomes too dry, dip the mop head back into the sanitizing solution and wring out excess liquid, like step 26.

30. Repeat on each square in the Main Hall.

31. Once the entire Main Hall has been moped, dump the dirty water in the tub in the Cleaning Closet and rehang the mop head in the closet.

What does “done right” look like?

Food, wrappers, crumbs, and grease marks/fingerprints are wiped from the tables and chairs to be swept up.

All debris is dry moped, swept up, and discarded into the trash.

Entire floor is moped with diluted sanitizer.

Common problems or mistakes?

Do not use the mop head before wiping the tables. Crumbs from the tables should be pushed off to be swept up by the dry mop.

Dry mopping must occur before mopping.

Related tasks?

Flipping

Anything else someone should know about this task?

Wipe tables before chairs and before the floor is dry mopped and mopped.

If sanitizing solution becomes too dirty, dump it and get a fresh bucket of sanitizing solution.