Bruh, you or your ssv needs to be real about the expectations for your closes with your SM and opening ssvs.

I dont know how things work at your store but I as a forever closing shift had to open recently and i can attest, openers do fuck all tasking wise at mine. So if your store is opening at normal times (4-6am or whaever) they should be slow enough to get their stuff done and some early cleaning and closing stuff. They should be setting you all up as much as you set them up. That's team work. But if they're opening later (7-9am or whatever) then they'll be swamped with customers and can't focus on anything but production and helping customers well into the mid day/afternoon depending on average business levels I'd say. So if your am team isn't able to set you all up to help facilitate your close, you need to inform your SM that you either need more people or more time or both. Because unless your closing SSVs have poor time management skills or the closing teams aren't strong, then you're just not being set up for success and need to make that clear. Otherwise you'll be unable to help support your am crew.

Also preclose like a motherfucker, i cannot stress that enough. 90% of my close is done before I lock doors most of the time.

Sorry for the rant, I just hate the whole closers can't do shit mentality when literally they do 110% of the maintenance of the store.

Morning crew does bathrooms and mid shift do mats at our store. That’s too much for night crew!

Wow, do you work in my store?? Because I felt this.

Lmao imagine having an hour… at my store we get 30 minutes😎

Are you a license store or a cafe only? If your a drive thru and only running a 4 partner peak every day then the morning crew is already probably at max capacity.

At my store a 4 partner peak would mean you restock essentials only as you run out. Everything else wouldn’t even get touched. You would try to contact the manager to turn of mobiles and cross your fingers.

This!! Same with mid-shift too. If they are too busy to get breakdown done, or start anything, they just get to pack up and leave. That leaves the closers stuck with 2 others shifts worth of work, while being just as busy. And when the time comes around to close, we can't just pack up, because we'll get shit on by everyone for missing something.

What can openers at your store do to make for a smoother close? I am often a solo opener at my little kiosk store, I want to reciprocate that love the closers show sometimes. I try to restock everything and keep things clean, anything else I should be doing?

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