Cooling Food in Your Operation: Best Practices
Tayler Greenwood2025-02-23T23:15:55+00:00Earlier in the month, I talked a bit about safely thawing food and, in my discussion, I mentioned that thawing and cooling were [...]
Chilling Out: A Quick Guide to Thawing Food in Foodservice
Tayler Greenwood2025-02-23T23:08:06+00:00Thawing food and cooling food are two challenges we face daily in foodservice operations. Regardless of the type of facility you operate, you [...]
Managing Food Safety During the Foodservice Holiday Rush
Tayler Greenwood2024-12-09T21:51:17+00:00The holiday season is a time of increased activity and demand in foodservice operations, from catering large events to preparing meals for many holiday [...]
What Have We Already Learned from the Most Recent E. Coli Outbreak?
Tayler Greenwood2024-11-05T20:56:29+00:00In late-September and peaking in very early-October, reports of increased Escherichia coli (E. coli) 0157:H7 cases started to surface in the Western part of [...]
Ensuring Food Safety in Emergency Foodservice Operations
Tayler Greenwood2024-10-07T16:00:32+00:00As we were reminded earlier this month, emergencies can strike unexpectedly, whether due to natural disasters, health crises, or supply chain disruptions. Hurricane Helene, [...]
Ensuring Food Safety in Emergency Foodservice Operations
Tayler Greenwood2024-10-07T15:51:51+00:00Last week, many of us across the United States watched in disbelief as the southeastern portion of the United States was ravaged by Hurricane [...]
Encouraging Behavior Change among Foodservice Employees
Food Safety Experts2021-12-08T14:24:37+00:00
Food Safety Considerations for the “New Way” of Dining
Food Safety Experts2021-08-04T08:12:17+00:00Spring is my favorite time of year, as we head out of the winter months, welcome warmer weather, and increase the daylight hours. As such, we turnover a new leaf and welcome new life as our grass, trees, and perennials come out of dormancy. This year as the Coronavirus vaccine continues its roll out and we welcome a third vaccine onto the market this morning, perhaps this spring we are turning over a ‘new leaf’ in a much more profound way, as we see light at the end of the Coronavirus tunnel.
Developing Good Food Safety Habits
Food Safety Experts2021-08-04T21:34:02+00:00Good habits and habit development are something that has fascinated me for several years. If you’ve attended any the training programs or presentations that my colleagues and I have conducted through our Center for Food Safety in Child Nutrition Programs, you’ve likely heard me opine about the importance of habits and how habits are created. Many times, in foodservice operations we wonder why our staff don’t follow the food safety practices we have established in our operation. Perhaps they don’t wash their hands when they are required, perhaps they just don’t use the proper method of handwashing, or perhaps we find that they don’t complete our HACCP logs as often as our program dictates should occur. And while we can stomp our feet and say “it is their job, they should just do it”, it really isn’t that simple. We can’t order people to change, although if we could, business and human resources would be so much simpler.
