Started doing the same thing in 2020 with a 99 cent notepad, totally agree.

Doesn't laying out every single item on sheet pans before service eat up a ton of space and time in its own way? I get the calm part (no more mid-service scramble), but for me a short list taped to the board plus a few backup bins beats covering the whole station in pans. Curious how you handle a menu change mid-week when all that setup is already built out.

A patched rail with fresh seam sealer would end it for me right there, and the stamp being off just seals it. Funny enough, my uncle bought a '69 once with a "rust free" claim, so we jacked it up in the driveway and the rail folded like a taco. Bad metal hides under good paint way more often than people want to believe.