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3 Easy Tips for Safer Food In Your Restaurant
Food safety should be a top priority for restaurant operators, as it protects customers, team members, and the brand from food safety incidents...
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Safety in Restaurants: How to reduce risk, create awareness, and build trust
Employees and customers need to feel safe every time they enter your restaurant – confident that food will be safe to eat, that accidents aren’t just...
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How friendly competition between stores can improve food safety compliance
The teams that serve food in your stores every day are the last line of defense for the health of your customers, and ultimately your brand. With this...
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An Inside Look at Chipotle’s Stage-Gate Process for New Products
Achieving operational excellence is a major challenge for any restaurant, but achieving it across thousands of locations is a whole different beast...
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Food Safety Month: Your Strongest Defense Against Foodborne Illness? Healthy Employees
To help spread awareness for National Food Safety Education Month, we're spotlighting each of our four pillars of food safety execution throughout...
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Food Safety Month: 3 Modern Approaches for Safer Food Preparation
To help spread awareness for National Food Safety Education Month, we’re spotlighting each of our four pillars of food safety execution throughout...
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Food Safety Month: 3 Ways to Stay Out of the Temperature Danger Zone in Every Store
To help spread awareness for National Food Safety Education Month, we're spotlighting each of our four pillars of food safety execution throughout...
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Food Safety Month: Modern Ways to Keep Restaurant Environments Clean
To help spread awareness for National Food Safety Education Month, we’re spotlighting each of our four pillars of food safety execution throughout...
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National Food Safety Education Month: Tips, Resources, and Best Practices for Operators
September is National Food Safety Education Month . This annual observance by the FDA and CDC aims to help foodservice operators prevent, detect, and...
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World Food Safety Day: How to Make Every Meal a Safe Meal Year-Round
In an effort to ensure safe food for all, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)...
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New from Zenput: Use Allergen Labels to Protect and Inform Customers
In the United States, 32 million Americans have food allergens – one in every ten adults and one in every 13 children – has some form of a food...
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22 Must-Haves for Your 2022 Health Inspection Checklist
By now, you know that your business needs to be prepared for anything. Especially in 2022, when operating in a pandemic is no longer uncharted...
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Verify Employee Vaccination Status and Test Results with Zenput
Across the world, various local, state, national, and company-wide mandates are being enacted. What does this mean for you? You'll be responsible for...
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Use a Food Safety Quiz to Manage Employee Health and Wellness
The health of people who work in the foodservice industry is important to everyone. People are quick to blame food product contamination as the...
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Create a HACCP-Based Food Safety Plan for Proper Food Prep
Your staff is responsible for ensuring that every meal prepared at your establishment is a safe meal. Whether cooking and serving complex recipes in...
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Avoiding the Danger Zone: Understanding & Enforcing Food Temperature Checks
Unsavory, but true: bacteria are ever-present in the soil, air, water, and foods we eat. And when bacteria have nutrients (food), moisture, time, and...
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Implement Food Safety Protocols to Ensure Clean Environments
The teams that serve, prepare, and handle food in restaurants, grocery stores, and convenience stores manually execute work that is important to the...
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Food Safety Testing: What Operators Need to Know
Food safety is more important than ever to multi-unit foodservice operators and the general public that they serve. There are several reasons for this...
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Upgrade to Zenput Temp Monitoring: Your Maintenance Team Will Thank You
A critical part of food safety at any given restaurant, convenience store, or grocery store is making sure that the food being served is stored at the...
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How Operators Can Mitigate Product Shortages with Technology and Automation
The pandemic triggered a significant shift in consumer demand for food – more people are eating at home instead of dining out, requiring changes to...
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Employee Training Is an Operator’s Number One Food Safety Responsibility
Regardless of where or how a food safety issue originates, your employees are the last line of defense for the wellbeing of customers. This places...
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Best Practices for Launching an Employee Health and Wellness Check Program
With the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic still echoing in the workplace, it is more essential than ever to minimize risk and make employees feel safe...
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How Multi-Unit Operators Can Take a Fresh Approach to Food Safety
The start of the summer season is always a time for celebration. Fresh Veggies Day—on June 16 —will be no different, as stores nationwide celebrating...
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Stop Food Waste Day 2021: How Operators Can Support the Cause Today and Every Day
Stop Food Waste Day — April 28, 2021 — is a chance for food industry operators to consider their organization’s role in proactively combating food...