Dr Kevin Roberts

Dr. Kevin Roberts, Ph.D.

Dr. Kevin R. Roberts is a professor in the Department of Hospitality Management at Kansas State University and director of the undergraduate program in hospitality management. Roberts serves as co-director of the Center for Food Safety in Child Nutrition Programs. Roberts worked in the restaurant industry for over 13 years and managed restaurant in Eastern Iowa.

He currently teaches in the areas of foodservice management and hospitality law. He has received outstanding teaching awards from K-State at the college and university levels. His research is related to the application of food safety principles. Specifically, he has conducted research in commercial restaurants, continuing care retirement communities, and school foodservice operations. His current research focuses on behavior change of employees once food safety training has taken place. His interest is in developing alternative food safety training programs and interventions that not only target knowledge, but the antecedents of behavioral intention.

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  • What Your Staff Gets Wrong About Food Safety (And How to Fix It)

    Earlier this month, I was mindlessly scrolling through Facebook when I came across a post on a gardening blog where someone had frozen their homegrown garlic as a means of preservation. After two months, they pulled the garlic out of the freezer and thought it didn’t seem to be frozen. Because the original poster was aware that garlic had been linked to botulism outbreaks in the past, they inquired [...]

  • Your Guide to Approved Food Safety Training Programs in 2025

    Early in my foodservice career, I persuaded the owners of the restaurants I managed to train all our production employees in food safety. Knowing that the cost, both in terms of training materials and employee hours in training would be substantial, I tried to minimize the cost by becoming a certified instructor of the course I wanted to offer and teaching it to our employees myself. Little did I [...]

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