Yooooo I wish my store would do this... I take them apart and wash them and then shamefully leave them on the drying rack for morning crew to put back together because I just... cannot 🤦🏻‍♀️

People at my store always put them together wrong and I don't get it. They're not that complicated.

I’ve found that the trick (for me) is to only wash and dry one pump at a time. If I have a giant load of dishes, I will wash/rinse/sani/dry In cycles. Clear the drying rack, take the stuff out of sanitizer to dry, wash a sink load and put them on the sanitizer, repeat. There will always be one pump in each sink and one drying. That way, when I’m clearing the drying rack, I put together that one pump, with all the correct components, and not mixing up parts.

Fun fact! Pumps are only supposed to be taken apart for cleaning once a week during the clean play. Otherwise just pump water through them and put them in Hobart. This was a change in policy a little over a year ago.

What? Only SSVs can take apart the pumps at your store? Lmao

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Poise counts, Jerry! Poise counts!

I'm definitely no savant and I find the pumps super easy to put together. I could see them losing the O rings but you should have extras

Damn, are most of the partners at that store just that inept?

We had to do something like this in one of my old stores! I had just transferred to it, so I don’t know who did it or why, but someone took apart ALL of our backup pumps COMPLETELY to clean them I guess and they got left in a bin because no one could put them back together. I tried but usually when I was working there either wasn’t time or enough people for someone to step off the floor to try to fix it. Eventually we just ordered new pumps and were very clear about who was and wasn’t allowed to clean them until we had time to teach everyone how to properly clean and put them back together, which I don’t think happened while I was there. That store was a hot mess though.

your daily cleaning on pumps is to pump wash, rinse, and sanitizer through them and sanitize the whole pump. check partner hub!

Oh I am using this for sure!

I spent a literal 30 minutes yesterday trying to reassemble the frap roast pump. The screwy part of the cap came off as I was doing my usual press press press until the water runs clear, turn upside down and press press press so the excess water can get out, etc. Before I could properly put it back on the whole thing just sprang apart and I couldn’t put humpty back together again. I did, however, keep all the parts together.