Employee survey template
How the floor and the kitchen actually work
A ready-to-use employee survey template with 11 questions already written and tested. Open it, brand it as your own and launch in minutes. Free to start, no card required.
Internal surveys take the team's pulse: climate, engagement, workload and trust in leadership. They work best anonymous and recurring, so you see the trend and not just a snapshot. Ask few, actionable questions: every question should be able to trigger a concrete decision.
What respondents see
Internal, anonymous questionnaire for the floor, bar and kitchen team: shifts, tools, coordination during service, breaks and intention to stay. About 4 minutes.
What this template asks
- Yes / NoDo you currently work on the floor, at the bar or in the kitchen at this restaurant?
- Yes
- No
- Single choiceWhich area do you work in for most of your shifts?
- Floor: table service
- Bar and coffee service
- Kitchen: hot section
- Kitchen: cold section, desserts or pastry
- Pot wash, cleaning and dishwashing
- Pass, takeaway and delivery
- Shift lead or supervisor
- I move between areas depending on the day
- Multiple choiceWhich shifts do you usually work? Select the ones in a normal week.
- Mornings and prep (mise en place)
- Weekday lunches
- Weekday dinners
- Weekends and public holidays
- Split shift (lunch and evening on the same day)
- Late-night close
- My hours change every week with no fixed pattern
- MatrixThink about a normal service over the past few weeks. How far do you agree with each statement?
- I have the materials and working equipment I need to do my job
- Before service starts I know what I need to know (menu, changes, bookings, off-menu items)
- Information between kitchen and floor arrives in time during service
- Who does what during the shift is clear
- There are enough of us at the busiest times
- I have had the training I need for the tasks I do
- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Neither agree nor disagree
- Agree
- Strongly agree
- Don't know / not applicable
- ScaleAt the busiest times, what is your workload like?
Manageable 1–5 Unmanageable
- Yes / NoOn most of your shifts, are you able to take the break you are entitled to?
- Yes
- No
- Multiple choiceWhat usually stops you taking your break? Select up to three.
- The volume of work never lets up
- There is nobody to cover my station while I am away
- The shift is too short to stop
- There is nowhere suitable to take a break
- Breaks are not built into the rota
- It is allowed, but it is not what the team normally does
- I could not say
- Single choiceHow often do you work in conditions you consider unsafe (slippery floors, cuts or burns, lifting, temperature, rushing)?
- Never
- Rarely
- On some shifts
- On many shifts
- On almost every shift
- Single choiceHow do you see yourself at this restaurant six months from now?
- I will still be here, definitely
- I will probably still be here
- I do not know yet
- I will probably have left
- I am already looking for something else
- I would rather not answer
- ScaleHow likely are you to recommend this restaurant as a place to work to someone else in the trade?
Not at all likely 0–10 Extremely likely
- Open textWhat one concrete change would most improve your working day during service?
Frequently asked questions
- What is a employee survey template?
- It is a pre-built employee survey questionnaire with 11 ready-to-send questions. Use it as-is or adapt it to your case in Camaleonic Survey's visual editor.
- Is it free?
- Yes. You can create an account and use this template for free, no card required. Paid plans add advanced analytics, live results and more.
- Can I customize it?
- Completely. Change questions, logic, typography and color so the survey looks like your brand, not a generic form.