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Pre-Inspection Checklist · The Part You Buy
Order the Checklist Items in One Pass
The Cleveland Foodservice Guide publishes a pre-inspection checklist — 37 things to confirm before an inspector walks in, each one citing the rule it rests on. Most of them are things you do. About a dozen are things you buy.
Those are below. Tell us how many coolers, handsinks and stations you run and we'll suggest quantities — then adjust anything, pick your options, and add the whole list to the cart at once.
Eight items on that checklist cannot be fixed on the day.
Coolers have to be pulled down to temperature, training has to be finished, and two documents have to already exist. Walk the list a week out, not the night before — and order anything missing at the start of that week.
Size It to Your Kitchen
Five Questions, Then We Fill In the Quantities
The food code counts by fixture and by station — a thermometer in every refrigerated unit, soap and towels at every handsink, a test kit at every workstation. Enter your counts and we'll suggest quantities. Every number stays editable, and nothing is added until you say so.
Temperature
Cleveland Department of Public Health · OAC 3717-1-04.4
A hanging thermometer in every refrigerated unit, readable without opening the door. Plus a calibrated probe thermometer, and a thin-probe one for patties, fillets and chicken breasts — a thick stem cannot read a thin piece of food accurately. No glass-stemmed thermometers unless they are shatterproof-coated.
The rule behind this section, in full: Temperature control and thermometers →
Sanitizer and warewashing
Cleveland Department of Public Health · OAC 3717-1-04.4
A test kit at every workstation — and it has to match your chemistry. Quat strips cannot read a chlorine solution, and a strip for the wrong chemical will give you a confident wrong answer. Wiping cloths live in the bucket between uses, not draped on a rail.
The rule behind this section, in full: Sanitizer concentration and warewashing →
Handwashing and restrooms
Cleveland Department of Public Health · OAC 3717-1-02.2
Soap and individual disposable towels at every handsink, from the moment they walk in — not a roller towel, not a shared cloth. Restrooms need the same, plus bath tissue. Stock them before the walkthrough; an empty dispenser is an avoidable finding — and a refill with no dispenser to put it in is the same finding.
All paper towels →·Restroom supplies →
The rule behind this section, in full: Handwashing requirements →
Food protection
Cleveland Department of Public Health
Gloves, tongs, utensils or deli paper at every station handling ready-to-eat food. Walk each station and ask how the person standing there will actually do it. Hair restraints for food employees. Buy gloves in the sizes your people actually wear — a box of one size is a box half your staff will not use.
All gloves, every size →·Deli paper →
The rule behind this section, in full: Bare-hand contact and food protection →
The supplies behind the written procedure
OAC 3717-1-02.4
Ohio requires a written procedure for vomiting and diarrheal events. The document is the requirement — no product satisfies it — but the rule expects supplies that match what your procedure says you will do, kept where staff can reach them without asking you.
Janitorial →·Cleaning chemicals →
The rule behind this section, in full: Written procedure for vomiting and diarrheal events →
This is a shopping aid, not a compliance statement. Buying from this page does not make an operation compliant — doing the thing does. Your licensor decides what it assesses and may look at items not listed here, and requirements change. The checklist itself cites the rule behind every line, and the agency that licenses you is the authority on all of it.
The suggested quantities are a starting point from your own counts, not a determination of what your licensor will expect. Check them against your operation before you order.
Dean Supply publishes the Cleveland Foodservice Guide and sells the items on this page. The guides there link to agencies rather than to products, on purpose — that editorial policy is published and we can be held to it. This page is the store side of the line.
Dean Supply · 3500 Woodland Ave
Bring the Printed List. We'll Walk It With You.
Not sure what you need? Call us, or come down and we'll go through it station by station.
Call 216-325-0994, or bring the printed checklist to 3500 Woodland Avenue and we will walk it with you.
