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Managing Your Restaurant’s Maintenance & Sanitization During COVID-19

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The COVID-19 health crisis has created a new emphasis on sanitization, health, and social distancing in businesses of all types—and restaurants are no exception. Enhanced focus on sanitization and social distancing have become the minimum restaurant operating requirements during the pandemic. A restaurant’s health code depends on it!

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Best Practices for Choosing Long-Term Hand Sanitizer Solutions to Enhance the Dining Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

Prior to the pandemic, it would have been rare to consider hand sanitizer as a critical element to enhance the dining experience. Today, hand sanitizer is the norm and in many cases it is the first thing a guest will see and engage with when they walk into a restaurant, and continue to experience throughout their time inside.

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The Importance of NSF Certification for Restaurant Tools and Knives

Modern Restaurant Management

In the restaurant industry, sanitation and health safety have always been held at the utmost importance – and that has been even more so through the past year. This Act prompted even more eyes to focus on the food processing and food service industries to ensure sanitation. In 2011, the U.S. Product evaluation.

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National Food Safety Education Month: How to Mitigate Foodborne Illnesses

Modern Restaurant Management

With the risk of cross-contamination, it is imperative that you always wash your hands and surfaces thoroughly for at least 20 seconds with soap and warm water as well as clean and sanitize food-contact surfaces immediately before and after they are used. In addition, how you clean and sanitize food-contact surfaces is also important.

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Four Ways to Streamline Reopening Procedures for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants owners across the country are cleaning, sanitizing, and organizing in preparation for reopening in the post-COVID-19 era. Common sanitation precautions being taken include lowered occupancy limits, mask requirements, and in-house social distancing. Cleaning/sanitizing/disinfecting. We’re open.

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The Pandemic’s Effect on Restaurant Supplies

Modern Restaurant Management

First, the Kodak, Tennessee-based company found a supplier and both bottled and sold hand sanitizer — and gave back to the community by donating 100 gallons to local first responders. We developed our own brand of hand sanitizer, partnering with local distillers to put people back to work. How were they able to accomplish that?

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Your Playbook to a Successful COVID-19 Restaurant Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

From customizable protective shields and partitions to hand sanitizing stations and tricks for taking an outdoor dining space to the next level (umbrellas and planters, anyone?), Build Sanitization Stations into Your Design. The CDC has even issued guidance for when to use soap and water versus when to use alcohol-based hand sanitizer.