5 Janitorial Supplies Every Restaurant Should Have

Restaurants are both extremely gratifying yet extremely challenging businesses to own. Due to their nature, cleaning can bean uphill battle when it comes to working with food and food-related products. Don’t be caught unprepared, and make sure you have these five janitorial supplies on-hand and ready so you can keep your focus where it belongs.

Floor drain cleaning products and tools

You don’t appreciate your floor drains until they’re gone, and by “gone”, we mean clogged (which is much less pleasant). Don’t let a clog catch you by surprise, as it is an easy problem to fix, but a terrible one to be stuck with if you don’t have the right supplies on hand. You may want a chemical declogger, as well as a drain snake. Between these two handy supplies, you’ll be ready to tackle any clog they may pop up unexpectedly, so your team can breeze along with its day and focus on your customers and not on your floors.

Anti-slip coating for floors

Anti-slip coatings do accomplish exactly whatit sounds like, slipping, but it does more than that. A coating of an anti-slip product (one that is made for the specific material of floor that you have) will seal the materials to help sanitation. Making sure this is always kept up to date is a great way to protect your floors and your employees.

Cleaning supplies for the cleaning supplies

Sounds silly, but it’s serious. Sometimes the supplies you use to get things clean are the most liable to become dirty – for example, the mop. Mops wipe up gross floors with water that is soon more dirty than sudsy – it’s easy to imagine how an item like that can breed bacteria. By cleaning your mop bucket and other supplies regularly, you can extend their longevity (saving your business money) and ensure they are not accidentally spreading the very contaminants they are intended to clean.

A cleaning schedule

Although this might not be a specific product,it’s one of the most important supplies for your restaurant. A quality schedule, specifically one that has accountability and tracking abilities built into it (even as simple as an initial), is a great tool to keep your entire team on the same page when it comes to caring for your business. Too many times, ‘that one task’ gets routinely ignored until it spirals out of control and forces its way onto your attention – often when the problem is now too big to deal with by the usual ways. Instead, a cleaning schedule keeps everything up to date, so you know for sure that all housekeeping tasks are handled.

Training

This goes right along with a cleaning schedule- although it is perhaps the most important ‘janitorial supply’ of all. Asupply is only as good as its user, and cutting corners or misusing products isas good as not cleaning at all. By training your team well and thoroughly, and combining that with a succinct and organized schedule, as well as a well-stocked supply cabinet – you can be sure that your restaurant is clean, beautiful, and achieving its best potential.