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A Combination of Traditional, Remote Audits and Self-Auditing Will Trend into the Future

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants have traditionally relied on annual, biannual, or quarterly audits, where an inspector visits the facility and conducts an in-person assessment of health and safety protocols. Here’s some key information to know about remote audits: Remote Audits are Thorough and Comprehensive.

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Is Your Ghost Kitchen Haunted by Food Safety Breaches?

Modern Restaurant Management

Audit differently. Now, food businesses – including ghost kitchens – are creating a culture of collaboration and development by changing their audit processes. Check all equipment. Be sure coolers and other equipment are working properly. COVID changed that. Utilize digital tools. Deliver foods safely.

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Six Important Steps Restaurants Should Take to Build a Strong Food Safety Culture

Modern Restaurant Management

Trust is built when company leaders demonstrate a strong commitment to food safety and provide the necessary resources – including training, tools, equipment, and support – to ensure compliance with regulations and best practices. Build Trust One of the foundational pillars of a robust food safety culture is trust.

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Outdated Health and Safety Checks Are Holding QSRs Back

Modern Restaurant Management

By modernizing employee task management, quick service restaurants (QSRs) can streamline routine health and safety audits. Ensure Routine Health and Safety Audits Run Smoothly Outdated processes, like pen and paper audits, can make health and safety checks a tiresome, time-consuming task with room for human error.

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How to Buy a Restaurant: An Ultimate Guide

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You have the advantage of a built-out kitchen with equipment, bars and dining rooms, technology, parking lots, and more. Things to consider are: Local Sentiment Finances Equipment Taxes or Violations Licenses and Permits What is the local sentiment towards the restaurant? Have there been any tax audits in the past three to five years?

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The Importance of NSF Certification for Restaurant Tools and Knives

Modern Restaurant Management

The NSF has a standards team that facilitates the development of public health standards, and a service team that test, audit, and certify products and services – which brings us to NSF Certification. We understand why it is important for us to make, and restaurants to use, NSF certified tools and products.

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COVID Caused Five Permanent Changes in the Restaurant Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

For many brands, an annual audit was the norm, while employees may have focused on not "getting in trouble" or "getting a good score" rather than the creation of culture. As it turns out, only conducting traditional, in-person audits was not an ideal approach. Finally, we have some wonderful changes to celebrate.

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