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How Insurance Needs Differ for Traditional Restaurants v. Mobile Food Businesses 

Modern Restaurant Management

Traditional sit-down restaurants and mobile food businesses have uniquely different needs when it comes to insurance. While there is some overlap in coverage needs, it’s important to understand the differences when it comes to insuring your business. Traditional Sit-Down Restaurant Insurance Needs. Dram shop law.

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Managing Risk: Prevent Foodborne Illness, Protect Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

To do so, they will need to create a complete food safety program to protect the restaurant itself from reputational harm and financial crisis. This may occur when raw meat touches another ingredient, or when a potential allergen touches another area of the kitchen. Train your staff.

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‘Who Watches the Kitchen?’

Modern Restaurant Management

Alongside wild stories detailing how foodborne illnesses can happen, Shaw offers practical solutions to avoid food safety breaches. Shaw is a food safety specialist, podcaster, founder of Savvy Food Safety, co-founder of My Trusted Source, and an entrepreneur, author, and speaker who spent 30+ years working in the foodservice industry.

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March/April 2021 Legal Update

Modern Restaurant Management

Nair, a partner at Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP compiles recent legal news affecting the restaurant, food and beverage and hospitality industries for Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine. The FASTER Act makes sesame the ninth food that manufacturers must identify on prepackaged labels. Legislation.

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Restaurant Inspections Checklist and Guide [Get an A+ Rating]

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72% of Americans eat food from a restaurant at least twice a week, meaning hundreds of millions of Americans frequently trust foodservice establishments to prepare their meals in a safe and sanitary environment. However, surfaces that touch food not only needs to be cleaned but sanitized. Food Storage. Develop a HACCP Plan.

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How to Onboard Restaurant Staff: A New Hire Checklist for Restaurant Employees

Touch Bistro

For Canadian employees: Social Insurance Number (SIN) card copy Form TD1 (Canada federal and provincial or territorial) Employee contact information and emergency contact information. And if needed, help new staff obtain food handlers permits. You’ll need to collect the following paperwork from your new hires. Clarification.

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