All Blog Posts Tagged 'sanitation' (11)

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Added by Chef Brad Peters on May 23, 2010 at 12:50pm — No Comments

Non-Operator Gloves VS. Bare Hands

I was in the Caribbean as a food and beverage operations consultant and was surprised that most resorts and food service operations didn't use disposable gloves. When I asked about that, the logic of the reply silenced me.

"This is an island. We have very limited landfill capacity."

There are a lot if issues in play here, centered around what type of glove to use.…

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Added by Paul Green on February 23, 2010 at 5:30am — 6 Comments

Non-Operator Remote Possibilities

FYI

Part of my daily regimen is stumbling around the internet looking for nuggets of interest. I'm always amazed at the incredible amount of information at my fingertips.

Today I found Todd McDougall who has a simple, but very interesting, idea; one I felt deserved to be shared.

Germ Free Remotes.

Designed primarily for the hotel industry, it seems to me it would also… Continue

Added by Paul Green on August 13, 2009 at 12:05pm — No Comments

Working While Sick

As the weather changes, absenteeism due to illness starts to rise. It's an age-old problem for restaurants, one that leads to understaffing and overworked employees as they struggle to compensate for the missing personnel.

But with the economy souring and pocketbooks getting stretched thin, more employees are going to be tempted to work through that illness and keep coming in even when they should be laying in bed. "Don't worry, I can power through," they say. You should be saying… Continue

Added by OnTop(r) on November 6, 2008 at 10:01am — 5 Comments

There's a lizard in my salad

Lizard in greens

From the Aug. 7 edition of Pantagraph.com, a newspaper Web site covering central Illinois:

"Applebee’s is investigating a report of a dead but intact four-inch-long lizard found in a customer’s salad during lunch last Friday at the Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar in Bloomington.

'We are aware of the… Continue

Added by restaurantdotorg on August 12, 2008 at 12:55pm — 1 Comment

Eating off the floor...two years later...

I originally wrote this article as my regular contribution to Peter Langlois and www.restaurantU.com.

It‘s a true story, one of which I am more proud than most others. The article has a valuable lesson for all restaurateurs and hospitality operators; but it also has another lesson for anyone facing the penultimate crisis in their lives. Here’s what I wrote in December of 2005...

I walked into the men's… Continue

Added by Roy MacNaughton on January 3, 2008 at 8:01pm — 3 Comments

Food Handling 101

I figured I would start our first post with picking everyone's brain regarding some food storage issues we have had at our coffee shop. We just turned a year old in November ( YESSS :D ) and are doing really good from our perspective, but there have been some small nagging things that I'd like to get some more opinions on. They may seem pretty mundane, but to the un-initiated, they can be quite frustrating.

We are floating in that limbo right now between having enough produce for our… Continue

Added by The Bean Cup on December 26, 2007 at 9:07am — 3 Comments