Food Service Pest Reference · Free tool
Station-by-Station Self-Inspection Checklist
Walk the kitchen the way an inspector does, station by station, in ten minutes a week and two minutes a day. Each item is a place a pest line on a Salt Lake County report comes from.
Prepared by Trenton S. Frazer, M.S., BCE #B3413 · Version 1.0, November 3, 2026 · Not legal advice
How to use this document
Daily items are for the opening or closing manager and take two minutes. Weekly items take about ten minutes and are best done before a delivery day. Check the box, write what you found in the note line, and move anything that needs a part, a tool or a vendor into the corrective-action log in the Records Binder. The items follow the lines inspectors actually write most (door gaps, propped doors, holes around pipes, dead pests, fly strips over food, store-bought spray, flies, cockroaches). Not legal advice; the inspector decides what passes.
Daily: back door and receiving (2 minutes)
- Back door closed and latched; no daylight under or around it; self-closer workingNote:
- No cardboard, pallets or empty boxes stacked inside the door or in the hallNote:
- No store-bought insect spray, fogger or bait anywhere in the building (check under sinks and on shelves)Note:
- No fly strip, sticky trap or insect light over food, prep tables, the drink station or clean dishesNote:
- Dumpster lid closed; pad free of spilled food and standing liquidNote:
Daily: line and dish area (2 minutes)
- No live or dead insects on the floor, under the dish machine, behind the line or in the drain covers; if any, removed and loggedNote:
- No flies in the dish area or over the line; drain covers in placeNote:
- Floor under and behind the line swept; no food or grease build-up at the wall baseNote:
- Mop heads hung to dry; mop bucket emptied; mop sink cleanNote:
Weekly: dry storage
- All open product in lidded containers; nothing in paper bags on the floorNote:
- No webbing, clumping, fine dust or small moths in flour, rice, grain, spices, dried chiles or pet food (check the oldest stock first)Note:
- Shelves and floor vacuumed, including the cracks where shelving meets the wallNote:
- Pheromone monitor for pantry moths present and dated; count written downNote:
- No holes or gaps where pipes or conduit enter the wall; no gap at the base of the wallNote:
Weekly: walk-in and reach-ins
- Floor under and behind every reach-in and the walk-in evaporator clean and dry; no fermenting puddlesNote:
- No cardboard stored in the walk-in; produce rotated and overripe product outNote:
- Door gaskets intact; no gap at the walk-in thresholdNote:
- Motor compartments of reach-ins and the ice machine checked for cockroach droppings, egg cases or live insectsNote:
Weekly: drains and dish area
- Every floor drain cover lifted; drain body and first run of pipe scrubbed with a stiff brush and a drain cleaner meant for organic film (boiling water alone does not do this)Note:
- Drain under the dish machine and glass washer scrubbedNote:
- No drain flies on the walls near drains; if present, the drain was missedNote:
- Grease interceptor area clean; lid sealedNote:
Weekly: bar and front of house
- Bar mats, drip trays, speed rails and the floor under them washed; no sticky filmNote:
- Recycling rinsed and taken out; no fruit flies at the binsNote:
- Patio bussed and hosed; no bird droppings accumulating on rails, ledges or the pad; no nests in vents or signageNote:
- Restroom floor drains scrubbed; no pests in the restroomsNote:
Weekly: exterior
- Every exterior door: tight sweep, intact weatherstrip, closer works, no daylight; screens intact on anything that opensNote:
- Every pipe, conduit, vent and cable penetration sealed (no opening larger than 1/4 inch)Note:
- Dumpster lid closes; grease bin not overflowing; pad clean; pickup schedule keeping up in summerNote:
- Vegetation and stored items a foot or more off the building; no standing waterNote:
Weekly: records
- Sightings log, corrective-action log and monitor log up to date; service report from the last visit filedNote:
- Any county report line still open has a date and a name in the corrective-action logNote:
- Staff who started this month have signed the training pageNote: