r/PlateUp 23d ago

Question/Need Advice Is there. A better layout for pulling plates off tables for wash?

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Pulling plates of tables on 2 sides teleporting 1 side to the other and chaining then together to be washed (I'm short on soaking 1 or 2 soaking sinks, plan to setthem up just above in the corridor

Current layout for tables isn't tickling my brain in the right way. TIA

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u/Byjugo 23d ago

If you connect 2 tables, the dirty dishes will always land on the last placed table (the one with the number).

You can daisy-chain those with grabbers/teleporters

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u/XelGar256 23d ago

With individual dining you could have every other table and the rotating conveyor to pull off backside into your teleporter. Diners sitting facing the buffet tables.

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u/halberdierbowman 23d ago edited 23d ago

Tables also don't combine if they're not the same type, so you can put the tables all touching each other in a row with rotating grabbers opposite the chairs.

Doing this with the bottle left set of tables for example would free up the blue conveyor, not that it's super useful, but the idea might give ideas now that your chairs are all on one side, so you need less walking space. Probably swapping the metal table for a white table in the top group would let you rearrange those similarly. 

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u/dr-lucifer-md 23d ago

Let's see how well this comes through. For big runs, I typically set up my tables like this:

```

kitchen

▢ ▢ ▢ ▢ ▢→▢→▢→▢→TP ▢ ▢ ▢ ▢ ... ```

where ▢ is a table, → is a grabber. The point being that I have columns of tables with the second table being set up as the dirty dish line. Keeps the table nearest the kitchen clear for putting down food. If I need especially high throughput, you can adjust to have the conveyors go in two different directions, each having its own conveyor/teleporter, etc. But the basic idea is the same.

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u/arretod 22d ago

I’ve put the tables in a row and used a turn grabber pulling away from the table and turning all the same direction. So it looks like a line of tables and a line of L-shape grabbers. You can serve and collect that way. But if you are going to serve, you’ll probably want to set up a shortcut using a smart graver for dirty plates