Free Templates

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Professional-grade templates built from real consulting work. No email required. No strings attached. Use them in your bar or restaurant today.

Why Free?

Because operators deserve better tools.

Most bar and restaurant operators are running on gut instinct and whatever templates they found online years ago. We want to change that — starting with what we give away for free.

Every template below was built from the same consulting work we do with paying clients. We’re not watering anything down to make the paid version look better. If this is what we give away, imagine what’s in Behind the Pass.

The Goal
These templates should be the industry standard. When you google “restaurant server steps of service” or “manager opening checklist,” the EH version should be what shows up — because it’s the best one that exists.
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Seven templates. No email required.

Download any or all of these. Share them with your team. Put your logo on them. No forms, no gates.

Service Standards

The EH Ten

The ten universal standards that define every great shift. Post them, teach them, hold your team to them.

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Training Series

Masterclass Vol. 1

The first four EH Masterclass topics — covering service foundations, floor culture, and team communication.

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Front of House

Server Steps of Service

Step-by-step service flow from greeting to close — usable as a training guide or daily reference.

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Management

Manager Opening & Closing Checklists

Daily open/close accountability for managers — covers cash, prep, team, and systems.

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Kitchen Systems

Daily Line Check

Pre-service line check covering temp logs, station setup, food safety, and manager sign-off.

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HR & Training

New Hire Onboarding

Day-one orientation through end-of-week certification — structured onboarding for new team members.

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Management

Weekly Operations Report

Revenue and labor summary with space for operational notes and priority action items.

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Behind the Pass

48 more topics.
Dozens more tools.

The full library includes 12 Masterclass volumes, complete training programs for every FOH role, operational tools, reference guides, and everything else we’ve built across years of real consulting work.

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Built Different

What makes these worth downloading.

From real consulting work

Every template was developed in the field, working with actual bars and restaurants. Not theorized in an office — tested on floors where it had to work under real pressure.

Ready to use as-is

No customization required before you deploy them. Add your logo, hand it to your team, and start using it today. Every field, every section, every checkbox was designed to be functional out of the box.

The industry standard — by design

We’re building toward a world where EH templates are what operators reach for first. That starts by making the free versions so good they become the default. If this isn’t the best version of this document you’ve seen, tell us.

The Long View

Templates as the industry standard.

Independent bar and restaurant operators deserve the same quality tools that corporate chains have — without the bureaucracy, without the consultants-who-never-cooked, and without the bloated management systems that don’t work on the floor.

We’re building those tools. We’re publishing the best ones for free. And we’re making sure that when an operator anywhere needs a server training doc or a pre-shift checklist, the EH version is what they find.

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The complete operating system we build with our consulting clients: service standards, staff training & certification, BOH kitchen systems, a full bar-program build guide, manager opening/closing checklists, daily line check, new-hire onboarding, a pre-shift template, scheduling & labor management, a weekly operations review, and working event-pricing + recipe-cost calculators. Built on real bar and restaurant floors. Branded and ready to use tonight.

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