Archive for the ‘Food Safety’ Category
3 food safety apps for your restaurant
Restaurants can use smartphone applications and Web-based programs for more than menus and online ordering, as software companies offer options to help ensure, document and promote food safety. For example, Inspect2GO’s app for Apple’s iPad and iPhone and Google Android tablets uses a standard template that is modified based on specific aspects of food safety [...]
Tips for dealing with food recalls
Food recalls because of salmonella, listeria and E. coli make headlines, but more than half of the food recalled by U.S. companies last quarter came because of undeclared allergens, according to data compiled by Stericycle ExpertRECALL. Food recalls increased sixfold in the third quarter, and Mike Rozembajgier, Stericycle’s vice president of recalls, shares some insights [...]
Cookbook shows relationships between chefs and farmers
Chefs and local farmers often create symbiotic relationships that support sustainable agriculture and give restaurateurs signature dishes that use seasonal produce, which in some cases is grown especially for them. Chef Aaron French, of the Sunny Side Restaurant in Albany and Berkeley, Calif., details 29 chefs who have such relationships in his new book, “The [...]
Clyde’s Restaurant Group: How to keep employees up on food safety
A recent survey of Chicago restaurant staff found only half scored 70% or higher on basic safe food handling practices to prevent foodborne illnesses, so there is room for improvement in employee training. One program that works is at Clyde’s Restaurant Group, where corporate operations manager Claude Andersen says food safety is a top priority [...]
Another royal wedding, culinary cavemen and a meat spa
Each week, writers and editors of Restaurant SmartBrief work to bring you the most interesting and relevant food and restaurant industry stories. Along the way, we come across cool tales that don’t make the brief, and we take the chance Friday to share a few with you. When Prince Albert of Monaco ties the knot [...]
New year brings new restaurant regulations
This post is by Restaurant SmartBrief contributor Janet Forgrieve. Much of last year’s coverage of restaurant regulations focused on the affect of federal health-care legislation that will require restaurant chains to post calorie counts, New York’s new posted letter-grade inspection system and, most recently, a new federal law aimed at tightening the safety of the [...]
Giant steps toward a safer food supply
This guest post is by Jorge Hernandez, senior vice president, Food Safety and Quality Assurance at U.S. Foodservice. U.S. Foodservice delivers food and related products and services to more than 250,000 customers, including restaurants, hospitals, hotels, schools and governmental operations. The year is ending on two very positive notes relative to food safety in America. [...]
Restaurant SmartBrief readers support food safety bill
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in Restaurant SmartBrief — tracks feedback from restaurant owners and managers about current trends and issues. Last week’s poll question: What do you think of the Food Safety Modernization Act passed by the Senate? I’m in favor — it’s necessary that we strengthen food safety regulations — 56.03% I’m [...]
What the food safety bill means for restaurants
This post is by SmartBlog on Restaurants and Restaurant SmartBrief contributor Janet Forgrieve. A growing number of foodborne illness outbreaks in recent years have scared consumers about everything from salad greens to peanut butter to eggs and spurred lawmakers into action — eventually. The Senate finally took the issue off the back burner this week, [...]
Senate votes to give FDA more power with passage of food safety bill
The Senate today passed a $1.4 billion food safety bill, by a vote of 73 to 25, which would give the Food and Drug Administration more government oversight. Here are some key points to the Food Safety Modernization Act: The FDA would be able to recall tainted foods. (Right now, the FDA has to urge [...]
