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KITCHEN-MANAGEMENT5 MIN READ

Walk the Broken Oven at Service

Prioritize service actions by urgency and importance when equipment fails.

Equipment moment The oven fails during peak service and the team is flooded with urgent-looking actions. Prioritization protects the manager's attention when attention is the bottleneck. Framework Urgent-important triage Sort actions into do now, schedule, delegate, and delete. In service, do-now actions protect safety, guest promise, and ticket flow. Reflex Treat all noise as equal. One recovery path. Urgency is not the same as importance. Do now Step 1 Nineteen salmon tickets depend on the failed oven. What is important and urgent? Delegate urgent admin Step 2 Maintenance needs a call, FOH needs wording, and the line needs direction. What…

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