Proper oven care is essential to maintaining food quality, ensuring operational efficiency, and minimising equipment downtime.
By following the outlined procedures, team members will contribute to extending the lifespan of the ovens, reducing potential health hazards, and achieving consistent product quality. This guide serves as a comprehensive resource to support Papa John’s standards of excellence, safety, and cost-effectiveness in pizza preparation operations.
We’ve included comprehensive instructions for cleaning, maintaining, and optimising Papa John’s ovens, focusing on the Middleby 740 WOW model. By following these detailed procedures, you can ensure the ovens operate at peak performance, delivering consistent product quality while adhering to safety standards.
Achieving the Perfect Bake.
At Papa John’s, our top priority is ensuring that our customers consistently enjoy a superior quality product. Our unique product requires the right balance of time and temperature to reach its full, delicious potential. This means it needs a ” slower ” bake and at a “lower” temperature.
Several other factors are also essential to consistently achieving the perfect bake: a proper gas supply, a correctly set-up oven, a well-functioning heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system, and a well-maintained, clean oven. This guide covers everything from temperature and time controls to gas supply, oven setup, the bake cycle, HVAC system performance, and oven cleaning and includes diagrams of oven finger configurations.
Cleaning essentials
Frequency
Oven exterior, crumb
trays and oven windows
Daily
Oven hoods
Monthly
Oven deep clean
Restaurants over 500 weekly transactions
Monthly
Restaurants under 500 weekly transactions
Every two months
Chemicals
Heavy Duty Degreasing Solution
Supersoak Concentrate
Stainless Steel Cleaner
Sanitiser Mix
Note: Always follow the manufacturers’
chemical use instructions.
PPE
Gloves
Safety Goggles
Apron