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How Restaurants Can Plan For The Next Hospitality Crisis

Modern Restaurant Management

Some of the biggest risks that you’re likely to face as a restaurant owner include: Foodborne illnesses: food poisoning, contaminated water, and cross-contamination of cooking ingredients. A damaged reputation from low restaurant ratings or failed safety inspections. Shortages in customer demand or employee services.

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Questions in the Minds of Restaurant Job Applicants

Ken Burgin

Questions in the Minds of Chefs or Cooks Applying for a Job What is the restaurant’s culinary or food philosophy? What are the safety and hygiene standards in the kitchen? What are the expectations for personal presentation and uniform? How is performance evaluated, and is feedback welcome?

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‘Who Watches the Kitchen?’

Modern Restaurant Management

Alongside wild stories detailing how foodborne illnesses can happen, Shaw offers practical solutions to avoid food safety breaches. Shaw is a food safety specialist, podcaster, founder of Savvy Food Safety, co-founder of My Trusted Source, and an entrepreneur, author, and speaker who spent 30+ years working in the foodservice industry.

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With France on Lockdown Again, Can Its Culinary Legacy Survive?

EATER

A chef cooks in the kitchen of a closed restaurant offering take away food and drinks as the French economy braces itself for the effects of a second national lockdown | Kiran Ridley / Getty Images. Food apps have been the source of more than just a moral dilemma in France. It’s been a war of nerves. It’s nothing!

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How to Onboard Restaurant Staff: A New Hire Checklist for Restaurant Employees

Touch Bistro

For Canadian employees: Social Insurance Number (SIN) card copy Form TD1 (Canada federal and provincial or territorial) Employee contact information and emergency contact information. And if needed, help new staff obtain food handlers permits. You’ll need to collect the following paperwork from your new hires. Clarification.

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Colorado Restaurant Labor Laws 101: What You Need to Know

7 Shifts

The Colorado Overtime and Minimum Pay Standards Order #38 regulates overtime, minimum salaries, breaks, tips, uniforms, and recordkeeping. Colorado restaurants must meet other legal requirements that govern food safety, alcohol service, compensation, overtime, breaks, and child labor.

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Easter Eat-In, Potbelly Pantry and #ThePlateFund

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM News Bites features the Independent Restaurant Coalition, Tripadvisor, Inspire Brands Foundation, WorkJam, EZ-Chow, US Foods, Potbelly Pantry, Just Salad, Zalat Pizza, Kentucky Fried Chicken, California Pizza Kitchen, Nando’s and Street Factory Media. Ensuring business interruption insurance covers COVID-19.