The Demand
Run your next shift as the Lead without asking a single Guest “is everything okay.” Read the room from altitude instead — the table waiting too long, the Guest who looks uncertain, the server behind on the read — and make two genuine table engagements from that read instead of ten walk-bys. Count them at the end of the shift and name what each one was responding to.
The Work
Name the shift you ran or observed as Lead:
Walk-by vs Read:
How many times did “is everything okay” get asked this shift:
How many genuine, precisely-timed table engagements happened, driven by an actual read:
What the read caught:
Name one table that had been waiting too long, before it became a complaint:
Name one server who was losing the pace, and how you caught it:
Rate yourself (1-5):
How much of your movement through the room tonight was by route or checklist versus by read:
The one change you will make to your next shift to replace a scheduled walk-by with a genuine read-and-move:
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