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The Importance of NSF Certification for Restaurant Tools and Knives

Modern Restaurant Management

In 2011, the U.S. government created the Food Safety Modernization Act , which transformed the nation’s food safety system by shifting the attention from responding to foodborne illness to preventing it. This Act prompted even more eyes to focus on the food processing and food service industries to ensure sanitation.

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CDC: Food Service Workers are a low, but not a no risk of Hepatitis A infection

Bill Marler

The risk for secondary infection from hepatitis A–infected food handlers to food establishment patrons in these person-to-person hepatitis A outbreaks was <1% ( 173 ). However, as a lawyer, I have seen first-hand the impacts on consumers exposed to HAV positive food service workers. Public Health Rep 2016;131:26–9.

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10 Ways Bon Appétit is Leading Seafood Sustainability in the Food Service Industry

Bon Appetit Management Company

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Association , 57% of the world’s fisheries are fished at their maximum capacity and 35% are overfished and in danger of collapse. In 2002, we were the first food service company to address the problems with unsustainable seafood purchasing practices.

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Looking Back on Bon Appétit’s Decades of Support for Farmworkers’ Rights

Bon Appetit Management Company

In partnership with the United Farm Workers (UFW), we released a groundbreaking report in 2011 to uncover the gap in labor protections for US farmworkers: The Inventory of Farmworker Issues and Protections in the United States. Tomatoes and strawberries in our cafés west of the Mississippi are EFI certified.

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MRM People & Places: Azteca Foods Celebrates 50 Years and State Dish Showdown

Modern Restaurant Management

Azteca also supplies freshly made products to the Food Service and Industrial channels. “In 50 long and short years, Azteca Foods grew beyond anything I could have ever dreamed,” said Art Velasquez, founder and owner of Azteca Foods. ” Tim starts with Armanino Foods in mid-March.

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#LifeOrDeathRecipe Challenge and ‘A Woman’s Place’

Modern Restaurant Management

Sweadner Society of the Fairfield County’s Community (FCC) Foundation and the FCC Board of Trustees in 2011. He began his life-long career in the hospitality business at the food service division of Stouffer in Newark, N.J., He married Lorraine Pietryka on Aug. 20, 1955, and served in the U.S. ” Glass Partitions.

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Tyga Bites and Sushi with an Attitude

Modern Restaurant Management

” Since the outbreak began, Minnow has been overwhelmed with demand for its food delivery and pickup pods from two sectors: food service and commercial real estate. For food service operators like restaurants, cafeterias, food halls, and ghost kitchens, Minnow Pickup Pods offer a safe and more secure order pickup.

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