A diner owner in Boise showed me her handwritten prep sheet, and now my team argues about going digital
She tracks 22 daily prep items on paper because her cooks actually read it, but half my crew says a tablet would kill the mistakes. Which side are you on for a 12 person kitchen?
Tablets work great until someone drops one in the fryer or the screen dies mid-shift. Paper never crashes. What helped us with 14 cooks was keeping the handwritten sheet but adding a whiteboard for the 5 or 6 things that change daily, so the paper handles the standards and the board handles the curveballs. Going full digital usually fixes mistakes on paper but creates new ones, like cooks not updating the tablet or fighting over who marks off the onions.