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‘Who Watches the Kitchen?’

Modern Restaurant Management

Shaw's “ Who Watches the Kitchen ?” Alongside wild stories detailing how foodborne illnesses can happen, Shaw offers practical solutions to avoid food safety breaches. Read on for an excerpt from "Who Watches the Kitchen?" " Why write this book now?

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2024 Emergency Planning for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

How to Better Ensure You Won’t Need Your Fire Extinguisher The best response is to prevent a fire before it starts by updating and cleaning your kitchen equipment, ensuring rags and smoking materials are disposed of properly, investing in Class K extinguishers and finally 86ing flaming shots. This article is not a template.

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18 Restaurant Manager Interview Questions to Assess Leadership and Operational Skills

7 Shifts

In this article: What strategies do you use to motivate and engage your restaurant employees? How do you ensure compliance with food safety and hygiene regulations? For example, the manager might share how they implemented cross-training among the staff, like teaching servers to handle some basic tasks in the kitchen.

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May/June 2021 Legal Update

Modern Restaurant Management

Arkansas Enacts Food Freedom Act : On April 30, 2021, Arkansas enacted the Food Freedom Act that exempts certain producers of homemade foods or drinks products from any state food safety licensure, certification, or inspection. The law allows home cooks to prepare meals from their homes and sell to consumers without being a licensed kitchen.

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AI For Restaurants: Practical Uses And Real-World Benefits

ChowNow

Understanding How AI Works in Restaurants Lets get one thing out of the way: AI for restaurants doesnt mean robots taking over your kitchen or replacing your staff with machines. Some restaurants use computer vision for things like tracking foot traffic and monitoring food safety.

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Six Concepts Every Restaurant Employee Handbook Should Cover

Modern Restaurant Management

However, spending the time to create a handbook will help create the desired culture, as well as save time and money (helping to avoid employee turnover as 36 percent of employees say they quit because they wish they had better training, legal action, safety concerns). Do not bypass safety guards. How to prevent cross-contamination.

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A CHEF’S HARD DAY’S NIGHT

Culinary Cues

It sounded like an appropriate title for an article about life in the kitchen. Kitchen work ages us even though to many it is a calling, something that we love (most of the time). When you work in a kitchen, you know what it means to be exhausted at the end of a shift – especially when it’s 12 hours or more in length.