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Prioritize Food Safety This Month and Throughout the Year

Modern Restaurant Management

The food your restaurant serves should taste good, look appealing, and be safe! Each year, food safety breaches sicken 48 million people in the United States and, of those, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die. All employees must work diligently to protect your food, customers, and brand. Prioritize training.

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Investing In Digital Technology Is Investing in Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

Today’s modern restaurant operators face challenges that no other generation has faced, thanks to COVID-19 closures, supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, menu labeling, and food safety challenges. It is the industry's primary responsibility to be sure the food they sell and serve to consumers is safe.

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Is Your Ghost Kitchen Haunted by Food Safety Breaches?

Modern Restaurant Management

However, the same challenges arise in ghost kitchens’ quality assurance and food safety protocols that plague the traditional restaurant kitchen. Food businesses should take a fresh look at some traditional kitchen challenges that may even be amplified in ghost kitchen settings: Be transparent. Commit to ongoing training.

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The Essential Handbook to Florida Restaurant Labor Laws

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Food safety training Florida law (specifically, F. 509.049 ) requires food safety training for every employee in food service. Each employee must receive training and certification within 60 days of hire. Several state-approved private companies offer this training.

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Amid Influx of New Employees, Restaurants Must Build and Reinforce Brand Excellence

Modern Restaurant Management

Fewer employees have carried the burden of prepping, cooking, and serving food while working to keep guests safe. Restaurants must adopt tech solutions to boost safety, quality, accuracy, transparency, consistency, and compliance – all factors that contribute to brand excellence. To accomplish this: Improve training efforts.

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How to Create an Effective Restaurant Onboarding Process

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It usually involves an orientation, paperwork collection, and training. Day Two Training: Learning how to do your job with a training manual, in-person classes, online learning, and shadowing. Reviewing health and safety protocol. Day Three Role-specific training. Customer service training.

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Restaurant Recruiting During and After COVID-19

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It’s important for restaurant hiring and training processes to reflect new COVID-19 safety measures. Will any of the hiring or training be conducted remotely? If job candidates think your safety measures are too strict, their values don’t match yours and they won’t be good long term fits for the team anyway.