Take the baskets, dump them, spray with spirit, scrub with drain brush, pour hot ass water until sparkly.

We have 6 drains and it takes less than 10 minutes to have them all sparkly and clean

That’s crazy, you sweep and mop the floors in the morning before you open? The two stores I’ve been to have always swept and mopped as a night task.

Sorry for the spelling errors lol i dont proof read well oop

Here is what I did when we moved floors to am:

I would come in and grab all my drain covers and inserts and put them in the back sink. Fill my sanitizer buckets while making my sink to soak my drain parts. Start iced coffee. Then go spray all my drains and put tablets in machines. Let them soak while I did half the floors, personally split the floors into 2 halves so I didn’t have to move all the mats so far. After the first half the floors I would start my regular coffees and teas. While waiting on the teas I would wipe ice bins and start filling with ice as well as clean off my drain covers and leave them to dry. Finish my teas and brew the next coffees (usually dark and decaf because previously I would have brewed 3 things of iced coffee and 1 pike, but sometimes I would wait right until we opened to brew those, just depended on the day). Then I would move floor mats back to my clean floors and move them off my dirty floors. Scrub drain and rinse with hot water- I always filled the really big pitcher with hot water when I was doing teas, you can just use scissors to leave the spout going from the coffee maker while doing other things like getting ice, you just really have to watch it to not overfill. For any really bad stains that didn’t come up I would use those magic eraser scrubbers but very sparingly because if you rub all the shiny off your drains they become REALLY hard to clean. Another trick to clean really bad drains (don’t do this in the morning though because you won’t have time) is take a Venti cold cup and plug the drain, then fill with a packet of urnex and hot water (not too hot or you will melt the cup lol) and let it soak. Everything wipes right up except the hole since the cup was sitting in it. So then all you have left is finish your floors and put drain covers back. Oh and we had to finish filling ice but it doesn’t sound like you do that in the morning. Whole thing took about 35 minutes, we usually all got there 5 minutes early to have that extra time, but if we didn’t I was pretty much only left with filling ice and maybe putting drain covers back during the 5 minutes of being open. I will say we didn’t have to do front of house floors, just behind the counters and back of house. I did basically the drive thru to the espresso machines first then front registers to BOH second but of course it depends how your store is set up. Also I always did a super quick job on the back of house floors because they were never that bad. I always found the dirtiest floors are by espresso machines and drive thru (also where our cold bar was), so doing that first usually meant my other part of the floors could go quicker even though it was a bigger area.

My biggest advice is make sure you are never just standing waiting on something. Like when I’m filling tea pitchers I’m measuring out coffee and doing that. When I’m filling the sink to soak the drain parts I’m doing sanitizer. I do other things while filling a pitcher with hot water to rinse out the drains. Also as you can tell, I’m almost always doing multiple things at once and never just fully completing one task. Also, you will get faster as you get more familiar with it :) and then randomly you will have a day that you aren’t even close to being done with everything. Those days I just didn’t do BOH floors lol. Prioritize what is truly needed for opening the store and running the shift smoothly. BOH floors can be done by CS after peak or even sometimes I would do it as the shift when doing my pull if they didn’t get done.

Also, to everyone questioning it, we only moved floors to AM because the closers said they couldn’t get it done and didn’t have time. We also tried doing them in the afternoon, but they were always so dirty in the morning when we did that. Pissed me off when I worked one night and saw how freaking slow it was compared to am shift (honestly closing shifts just didn’t have good time management). Our numbers we are doing 90-120 every 30 minutes from 6:30-9:30 and they might have a half hour to hour they did 60 (although consistently pulled 30s), we also would get super busy during the afternoons and pull 80s from 12-2ish with like 5 people working and trying to run breaks and never dropped below 40. Peaks only had 7 and pre peak ran with 3, 4 at 6. Night shift had 5 people there until 7 and 4 until 9 3 until close and 2 closers. They also never made backups and never took trash out (seriously I would take it out before I left at 1 and that would be the last time it went out sometimes) so we always had to do that pre peak as well. I will say floors moved back to close and we ironed a lot of this out, manager had them all work with me to watch my time management and it really helped. Also they all had to see the am sh*t show when all those things weren’t done lol.

Is your store not that busy? Most of that stuff drains etc is evenings at my store

The tea and pills is the shifts stuff at mine