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

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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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Tech Will Be Essential to Boost Food Safety and Quality in 2023

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During the pandemic, travel restrictions and social distancing efforts meant that many restaurants couldn’t conduct third-party inspections per usual. As a result, brands had to be flexible, adding remote audits and self-inspections instead of solely in-person audits. Enhance Brand Protection.

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Automation Will Improve Your Restaurant’s Recall Management

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Are you and your trading partners using integrated systems that boost transparency, so you can pinpoint exactly where potentially contaminated products have travelled? To incorporate automation into your restaurant: Audit your current recall process and identify where manual tasks create bottlenecks. Communication.

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COVID Caused Five Permanent Changes in the Restaurant Industry

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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. During the pandemic, travel restrictions meant restaurants had to figure out new ways to inspect their facilities.

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Managing Risk and Protecting Your Brand

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Ironically, now that restaurants must implement stringent new safety protocols and ensure compliance, it’s become difficult to secure third-party audits due to COVID-related travel restrictions and limits to interpersonal interactions. Invest in Software Solutions.

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Best Practices for Hospitality Marketing

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Conduct an internal audit of expenditure. Now is the time to pay more attention to your website, take advantage of the downtime your hotel may have to audit this too. With lots of travel bans likely to still be in effect for some time, your focus should be on domestic bookings. If so then consider what else you can do.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-Year 2020 Edition

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shows that consumers feel safer when hotels and restaurants raise their cleaning protocols to include hospital-grade disinfectants and third-party audits. Check clean through periodic on-demand training, auditing and verification that procedures have been followed.

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