We’ve got a 350‑guest museum gala on May 9 with a 20‑minute program, paddle raise, and a tight 90‑minute dinner service; I’m looking for real-world run‑of‑show templates or tools that keep kitchen, AV, and auctioneer aligned. Has anyone used Shoflo or a Google Sheet with cue clocks and channel callouts that held up, and would you be willing to share a sample?
I’ve had best luck building a Google Sheet with a ‘T‑clock’ column that counts down to each hit and one non‑negotiable kitchen cue — ‘salads down at 06:30’ — so BOH isn’t chasing stage tweaks, then mirroring it in Shoflo so AV and the auctioneer share the same timecode. Sheets work if you print a one‑page BOH view; otherwise Shoflo’s global clock keeps the paddle raise and mic swaps tighter, and I can share a redacted sample if you want.
Building on @nash_jones87, Shoflo’s solid if you add a locked ‘Hard Times’ track and a 2:00 ‘vamp buffer’ right before the paddle raise, plus one row mapping radio channels so AV knows who’s calling which cue. Want a redacted sample or a Sheet export you can plug in this week?
I add a tiny contingency column with hard triggers — e.g., “Over by >3: cut sponsor reel; Under by >1: add emcee thank‑you” — so the caller, AV, and kitchen pivot like a pit crew. Want a scrubbed sample to copy?
For a 20‑minute segment, I write it as absolute time-of-day and make it “18‑on‑paper” so there’s a built‑in 2‑minute catch‑up, plus a single “Decision @ +18” cell to cut/add before the ask. Kitchen gets a plating window (not one hit) and AV sees the same synced clock on a downstage monitor, which keeps the 90‑minute service from slipping. I can share my lane‑view Google Sheet if that helps — do you have a firm seating time yet?