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Controlling What You Can: Risk Reduction and Restaurant Technology

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Plus, you can create a document library for your employees with videos, cheat sheets and other training material so it’s always available to employees who need a refresher. Monitor Pandemic Health and Sanitation.

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Safely Reopening Restaurants in the Era of COVID-19

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Once a check of the normal operational, cleaning and sanitation issues confronting a food facility has been completed, restaurants now are faced with new challenges and guidelines brought on by COVID-19. Infection control, including employee wellness checks, identifying high touch surfaces and increasing cleaning and sanitizing schedules.

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Six Steps to Help Restaurants Prepare for Severe Storm Weather

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Create a Crisis Communication Plan. A clearly outlined communications plan will keep employees functioning as a unit during a hurricane threat. Hand sanitizer or wipes. Monitor and document product temperatures as long as it is safe to remain in the building or if the power outage is confirmed to be brief. Flashlights.

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Safety First: Welcoming Restaurant Employees Back

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Communicate Return Criteria. After a plan is approved, communicate directly and often with employees about the primary information relating to their return. During the training, encourage employees to document physically demanding job duties such as heavy lifting to help identify and plan around potential injury risks.

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Employment Law Considerations as Restaurants Reopen

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As an important note, employers seeking an exemption must document that this determination has been made pursuant to the criteria listed. While this document does not need to be sent to the Department of Labor, it must be retained in the employer’s files. Accounting for Unemployment.

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Unique Challenges and Considerations for Restaurants As They Reopen Their Doors

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Essential to calming the storm is communication with your customers. Share that you have enhanced protocols for sanitization. Let them know if you spent money on having your air vents sanitized. Make sure your communications with staff are reassuring. So how do you maintain your reputation and brand under such conditions?

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What Should a Return to Work Program Include?

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Documents for internal case management. Look at routine work like phone/online ordering, hosting, side work, assembling take-out kits, verifying and expediting orders, delivering car-side pick-up, sanitizing activities, etc. Items to document: Important dates and outcomes (employee contacts, exam & therapy visits, etc.).

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