Restaurants are increasingly moving from clipboards and pens to digital technology. And they should. These digital tools streamline and simplify multiple processes – from taking customers’ orders to facilitating inspections.
But now, patrons and staff are likely to touch – and share – multiple screens. Whether your host is sending
Continue Reading Touchy feely restaurant screens covered with creepy crawlies
When designing a commercial kitchen, many people consider how the space will look, when they should be primarily concerned with how it will function. The design should maximize efficiency and productivity, but it also must promote proper food safety protocols.
No matter how much time and
Continue Reading Food safety experts can help design kitchens to reduce risks
Over Ecolab’s many decades of support to the food service industry, we have seen considerable progress in the execution of sanitation and hygiene programs that protect public health. But each new food safety incident or norovirus outbreak, and the accompanying headlines, remind us that we dare not take our eyes
Continue Reading Food safety: Possible risk to reputations provides motivation
Growers are enthusiastically helping a team of scientists researching how cantaloupes pick up and pass on pathogens in a first-of-its-kind project, but retailers have not stepped up.
The two-year
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Repeating phrases they have been using for the past year, officials with Chipotle Mexican Grill this week announced food safety enhancements and dismal sales numbers.
The news broke Monday that the Denver-based burrito chain would be installing new air purifying equipment and ice machine sanitizers in all of its existing
Continue Reading Chipotle still seeking food safety; Ells says ‘esoteric’ plan failed
CHICAGO — Rob O’Neal, former Navy Seal and keynote speaker at the International Sanitary Supply Association meeting here this week, reminded the audience of food safety and away-from-home wellness professionals that “complacency kills,” a message that really hit home with those leading the charge to use new technologies in the
Continue Reading Complacency kills: Challenging the protectors of the status quo
Equipment malfunctions and sterilization issues spurred the second nationwide canned tuna recall in two days with Tri-Union Seafoods LLC pulling back more than 107,000 cans of Chicken of the Sea tuna. 
The 2,745-case recall of Chicken of the Sea branded tuna today followed a 31,579-case recall of Bumble Bee Foods
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