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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. Make sure your employees understand when to wash their hands as well as appropriate times to use (and change) gloves. Your workers will take short cuts. coli and salmonella.

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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. Remote Audits Offer Distinct Food Safety Benefits. Luckily, our industry is resilient. Luckily, our industry is resilient.

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Managing Risk and Protecting Your Brand

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While everything feels overwhelming in the world, focus on these five solvable challenges: Prioritize a Food Safety Culture. With or without a pandemic, food safety culture is what you do when no one is looking. When employees feel safe, informed, and engaged, then customers will feel safe.

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How to Plan Your Restaurant's Grand Re-Opening Event

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Consider food costs, labor costs, and cost of marketing your reopening. Plan your budget to include food costs, labor costs, operating costs, marketing costs, and any extra costs such as for party favors and special decor. Additionally, by keeping the menu to a limited number of dishes, you can better plan and manage your food costs.

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Health & Safety Requirements for Restaurants [COVID-19]

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In the following post, we’ll be covering the state and provincial requirements for health and safety among restaurant workers—follow your jurisdiction’s laws to keep your team safe and healthy. Health screening requirements: Temperature, symptoms, exposure (such as travel). Temperature threshold: 100.4? Face coverings: Recommended.

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Safely Reopening Restaurants in the Era of COVID-19

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As restaurants begin the process of reopening, some with an extended period of nonoperation, there are safety precautions that must be considered beyond simply ordering supplies, rehiring staff and opening the doors. Train Employees to the Written Plan. Documentation is key here noting training dates, times and attendance.

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Why Restaurants Should Treat Their Employees Like Their Best Customers

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By Indiana Lee, Contributor Like all businesses, restaurants rely on their employees to be successful. So, why is it that employee wellbeing is an afterthought for many restaurants? At the end of the day, you must treat your employees with the utmost respect if you want to keep them -- just like you do with your best customers.