Kitchen Floor Clean

1.5 hours credit

This shift is done daily after 9pm. (It may, however, be started immediately after dinner if the person mopping is a boarder and not a resident.)

    • These directions apply to ALL floors with red tile i.e. the Pantry, Kitchen, Dish Room, Side Entry, as well as the walk-in fridge.

    • Sweep all floors. Make sure you get UNDER the furniture and shelves. This is the most important part of the shift.

    • Fill the mop bucket with floor & grout cleaning solution. Scrub all floors. Don't use a regular mop, except possibly to distribute water over the tile; the scrubber is needed to get the floor fully clean. The scrubber should be hanging in the mop sink (outside of the side-dor through the kitchen). It looks like a bristly scrub-brush on the end of a long stick. It does not look like a string mop.

    • Note that the areas of the dishroom floor underneath the metal counters and sinks need to be scrubbed as well.

    • The dirt that used to be on the floor should now be dissolved in the aforementioned cleaning solution.

    • Using the giant squeegee, sweep the dirty water into the drains on the floor. Push hard on the squeegee! Large puddles of water left on the floor are dangerous and will result in you not getting full credit for your shift. If there is solid crap on the floor (eg food bits, hairs, etc), don't push it down the drain in the floor. Pick it up (with rubber gloves if you're squeamish) and throw it in the garbage.

    • Use the dry mop(long blue) in the dishroom to clean up any excess water on the floor. When finished replaced the dry mop head with a new one. More can be found in the basement across from the dryers.

    • Empty the mop bucket into the mop sink, rinse it out, and put the mop and bucket back outside in the mop sink (mop buckets should not be found any place other than inside the mop sink . . . otherwise people trip on them).

* Clean the white floor drains in the kitchen. One is located under the double sink, one is under the Hobart mixer, and the last one is under the freezer. The City health inspector looks at these when our house is randomly inspected and it is your job to keep these clean. Just pour some Ajax or Comet onto them at the beginning of your shift, then scrub with a toilet brush or sponge at the end. They should come out sparkling.