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Managing Your Restaurant’s Maintenance & Sanitization During COVID-19

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The COVID-19 health crisis has created a new emphasis on sanitization, health, and social distancing in businesses of all types—and restaurants are no exception. Enhanced focus on sanitization and social distancing have become the minimum restaurant operating requirements during the pandemic. A restaurant’s health code depends on it!

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The Importance of NSF Certification for Restaurant Tools and Knives

Modern Restaurant Management

In the restaurant industry, sanitation and health safety have always been held at the utmost importance – and that has been even more so through the past year. This Act prompted even more eyes to focus on the food processing and food service industries to ensure sanitation. In 2011, the U.S. Product evaluation.

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National Food Safety Education Month: How to Mitigate Foodborne Illnesses

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With the risk of cross-contamination, it is imperative that you always wash your hands and surfaces thoroughly for at least 20 seconds with soap and warm water as well as clean and sanitize food-contact surfaces immediately before and after they are used. In addition, how you clean and sanitize food-contact surfaces is also important.

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Is Your Ghost Kitchen Haunted by Food Safety Breaches?

Modern Restaurant Management

Use tech tools to provide regular training and send small “chunks” of information right to employees’ phones. Tech tools make it easy to access information, analyze data, and adopt proper quality and safety behaviors. All workers must be trained in food safety, not just upon hiring, but throughout their tenure.

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Prioritize Food Safety This Month and Throughout the Year

Modern Restaurant Management

Regularly send “bite sized chunks” of information to employees’ smartphones to reinforce key information. Additionally, tech solutions can provide a comprehensive view of your enterprise, offering key data and insights that allow you to make more informed decisions to elevate safety. Rely on technology.

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Healthy Hand Washing Experience: Five Restroom Upgrades Restaurants Need Now

Modern Restaurant Management

” Increase cleaning, sanitization and restocking. Provide trash cans and hand sanitizer near exits. ” Installing hand sanitizers outside restrooms is another way people can sanitize their hands upon entering and leaving the restroom. .” For more information, visit www.bradleycorp.com/handwashing.

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COVID Caused Five Permanent Changes in the Restaurant Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant’s safety protocols were done “behind the scenes,” and guests most likely didn’t care about the sanitation of high-touch surfaces or whether they were sitting within six feet of other tables. Many operators relied on gut instinct, without a comprehensive view of their data to inform their decisions.