There’s more to working in the service industry than just preparing delicious food and serving customers. You must also take several precautions to ensure food is safe for service. Otherwise, you can be putting patrons at risk of serious foodborne illnesses. All it takes is poor hygiene or a mistake during food preparation, and someone…
Many of the tens of millions of cases of food poisoning reported every year could have been prevented with better handwashing. Bacteria on the hands of unwell service workers can quickly travel to food contact surfaces and food before making the people who eat that food unwell. Knowing this, you’ll realize just how crucial thorough…
Reheating food is an excellent way to avoid food waste, whether you’re eating leftovers in your own home or reheating bulk food like soup or stew to serve to customers in the food service industry. However, reheating food can come with risks, especially when you’re not aware of appropriate food safety temps, the max time…
Food businesses like restaurants, cafes, diners, and bars are all hospitable hot spots for biological hazards. When people and food come together, it can be a recipe for disaster if all the proper precautions aren’t taken. However, awareness of biological food hazards and appropriate training can go a long way toward keeping employees and customers…
As most food handlers know, handwashing is a crucial part of safe food service. Washing your hands can get rid of germs and bacteria that may otherwise pass onto food and other people. While you might know the importance of handwashing in conjunction with other personal hygiene tasks, do you know where food handlers should…
Many people enter the food industry with preconceived ideas about food safety. You might have learned cooking techniques from friends or family or read tips and tricks on the internet. While the internet is an excellent source of information, not everything you read about food preparation and food safety will be entirely accurate. While you…
Food handlers and restaurant workers have a very important job to do. They must prepare and serve food to paying customers while ensuring the food and the environment in which they’re eating are safe and hygienic. As a result, most bar and restaurant owners take great care in hiring workers they believe have the necessary…
When the Texas Department of State Health Services approved a regulation to make food handler certification a part of Texas Food Establishment Rules in 2015, many hospitality industry workers became nervous. Having to study to receive a certification of any kind can be daunting, especially if it has been a long time since you joined…
You may assume you’ll be able to take your knowledge learned at home about meat into the food handling industry. However, who’s to say that your best practices are the best practices? Whether you’re about to enter hospitality or you’ve enrolled in a Texas food handlers permit, here is some helpful information relating to the…
