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Elevate Your Food Safety Culture to Survive the COVID Crisis and Future Ones

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Adults with confirmed COVID-19 were twice as likely to have dined at a restaurant in the 14 days before becoming ill, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As the COVID-19 pandemic continues past the six-month mark, people remain wary about dining out. How Food Safety Culture Has Changed.

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Welcoming Customers Back: How to Resell the Dine-in Experience as Restaurants Reopen

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Now that states are beginning to loosen their lockdown restrictions and reopen small businesses like restaurants, it’s fair to wonder how drastically the dine-in experience will have to change to accommodate the new safety requirements. How does that work with the new safety requirements? Limiting Capacity.

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Restaurants Pivot to the new ‘Post-COVID’ Consumer Behavior Patterns

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It’s not enough just to recover, retail and specifically restaurants and the food industry are compelled to pivot, adapt and create a model that will endure. Brick and mortar stores will need to elevate their dining experience to be more appealing and more flexible to the changing attitudes and perceptions of the American public.

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How the Pandemic Has Forever Changed the Way We Eat

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With many restaurants closed for in-person dining on and off throughout the pandemic, the food service industry shifted to delivery and takeout as a business imperative. According to SEC filings, food delivery apps experienced tremendous growth in 2020 earning a combined $5.5 billion from the same period in 2019.

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Your Playbook to a Successful COVID-19 Restaurant Experience

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It’s no secret that the dining scene has changed drastically in the wake of COVID-19. From customizable protective shields and partitions to hand sanitizing stations and tricks for taking an outdoor dining space to the next level (umbrellas and planters, anyone?), Remove buffet and other communal food areas.

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Restaurants Reopen: What Are They Doing?

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Guests would be seated at every other table or booth so as to maintain a safe distance. Bar seating will be removed and reconfigured to allow six feet between bar stools. Bar servers will take orders and deliver drinks and food but will not linger across from guests. Those measures will continue in the future.”

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Adapting Post-COVID: What’s Changing For Restaurants?

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Shifting Delivery and Dine-In Experiences. In a recent Coronavirus-related study , 89 percent of respondents said they felt safer eating food from a grocery store or at home, versus in a restaurant. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel, with many states and countries heading for reopening as new cases decrease in the U.S.