Cafe Equipment Cleaning and Sanitation

Clean Up 1) Remove Scraps:

    Remove products, wrapping paper and all packaging material from areas to be
    cleaned. Sweep floor with appropriate broom.


2) Cover Electrical Equipment:


    Cover and unplug all wrapping or weighing equipment, as they may be water sensitive.
    Disconnect all power, prevent electrocution.


3) Collect Hand Tools:


    Put all scrapers, knives, trays, hand saws, grinding parts, etc., in sink for manual washing.
    Wash, rinse and sanitise the removal parts by chemical sanitizing sprays or solution


4) Cleaning Procedure:


    Use Foaming Degreaser
    Mix with warm water.
    Apply with foam gun, pressure sprayer or deck brush to all surfaces to be cleaned,
    such as walls, tables, counters, saws, etc. Allow foaming degreaser to remain on the surfaces for five minutes to loosen fats, oils, grease and other hard-to-remove soils.
    Agitate if necessary.
    Thoroughly rinse all surfaces being cleaned with the warmest water available. Rinse water from top toe
    Squeegee excess water into drains.


Sanitizing Procedure


Use Sanitizer/Virucidal Disinfectant, Mix with water in a ratio of 1:500.
Apply with sanitizing gun or pump-up sprayer to all surfaces previously cleaned.
Allow all food contact surfaces to air dry – no potable water rinse required.
Add Drain Maintainer
Use Liquid Life Forms Bacterial Digestant/Deodorant.
Pour Drain Maintainer twice weekly in each drain.
Pour daily into grease traps.


Common Equipment used in caffe:

1. Utensils served to customer

• Porcelain mug and plates
• Metal forks, spoon and knife

    2.   Equipment used daily

• Milk and blender pitcher
• Shakers cup
• Coffee grinder
• Espresso machine
• Whip cream bottle
• Brewed beverages bottles

Most of the cafe hand-washed their equipments. However a bigger cafe company or more advanced cafe has their own dish washing machine. Thus what most of the cafe members do is to always sanitize their equipment first to remove stain and then place it into the machine for cleaning and drying to take place.

Big machine such as Espresso machine do not require the whole sanitization or to follow the whole cleaning procedure stated on the above. Most cafes only need to empty their coffee drawer and rinse it to continue the grinding of espresso shots.