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Wrong Food Temperatures: HACCP Regulation Inefficiencies
According to FoodSafety.gov, 48 million Americans get food poisoning each year, and of those 3,000 will die. These numbers are incredibly high for an avoidable problem. In response to this epidemic,...
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California’s Homemade Food Act Creates 1,200 Jobs
Nearly 1,200 jobs have been generated since the California Homemade Food Act passed in August 2012, reports Serious Eats. This bill allows small business owners who produce “cottage foods” from their...
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Restaurant Authenticity vs. Food Safety
A recently published study in the academic journal, Management Science, alleges that consumers may be willing to disregard a restaurant’s poor restaurant rating if they feel there is a certain level to...
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Restaurant Letter Grade System Reform
As Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration is looking to eliminate letter grades for public schools, the NYC Hospitality Alliance believed it is a good opportunity to urge City Hall to focus on the...
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Factors Affecting U.S. Restaurants
The restaurant scene is consistently full of evolving trends such as the growth of mobile payments or different flavor profiles. Spicy flavors have been found to be increasingly popular; according to a...
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Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams Recalled for Listeria
Just days after the massive recall of every single Blue Bell Ice Cream product on shelves throughout the country, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams is doing the exact same thing. After a random sampling done...
View ArticleFSMA Status Update: Compliance Requirements and Upcoming Deadlines
“One of the most notable pieces of federal legislation addressing food safety in the past century, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), was enacted on Jan. 4, 2011 — amending section 415 of...
View ArticleMore New York City Restaurants Have ‘A’ Grades Than Ever Before
“Eight years after former mayor Michael Bloomberg tasked the Department of Health with completely dismantling and rebuilding the city’s restaurant grading system, a record amount of restaurants have...
View ArticleNYC Food Trucks To Soon Get Letter Grades Like Restaurants
“Every cart or truck will be getting (a) newly designed decal, and when the inspector finishes the inspection, an ‘A’ looks just like the restaurant A,” says Deputy Commissioner for Environmental...
View ArticleYankee Stadium, Barclays Center Respond To Report Claiming They’re Among The...
A bombshell report released by ESPN’s Outside The Lines pored through and analyzed nearly 17,000 food safety inspection reports from 2016 and 2017 conducted by the local health departments which...
View ArticleWhich Commercial Kitchen Layout is Right for Your Restaurant?
“(…) Zone layout is what it sounds like – the kitchen is divided into different areas depending on the task at hand. So there might be a food prep zone for chopping and mixing, and all of the necessary...
View ArticleChicago’s Sputnik Coffee Boldly Grows in Ways No Roaster Has Grown Before
Since lifting off its launchpad roastery in the Back of the Yards neighborhood of Chicago in 2017, startup Sputnik Coffee Roasters has rapidly carved out a niche for itself with a concise product line...
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