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Let’s face it: keeping crew records up-to-date and tracking visa, passport and certificate expiry dates is one of those tedious, time-consuming burdens we all love to hate. I’d literally rather scrub heads than scan documents.
The problem with inventories is that they’re only as good as the people maintaining them, and not everyone views inventory maintenance as important—and some simply don’t want to do the work. I think I only ever joined one yacht that had a complete and up-to-date inventory in my entire 20 years of crewing!
As the name suggests, the Luxe SOP System is ideal for managing the workflow of standard operating procedures so naturally when it came to the galley the first thing we thought of was hygiene checklists. This makes it perfect for the galley’s all-important hygiene checklists and we include SOPs for hot holding, cold holding, work surface sanitization, thermometer accuracy checks and sanitization, and general cleaning procedures throughout the galley and its storage areas.
There are literally hundreds of products that should never be applied to certain surfaces because they cause irreversible damage on contact. The best place to gain this knowledge—both what to do and what not to do—is directly from the manufacturer of the products. (The second best is from world-class experts.)
