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Eliminate cold food complaints

Jul. 01, 2014

Turn your medical-model tray service into a hot, fresh service by using serving tables and carts within your neighborhoods or units.

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Repeal of food safety law requiring gloves in 'final push'

 Jun. 27, 2014

The proposed repeal of the California law that requires food workers to wear gloves has inched its way through the state Assembly and Senate and is in its "final push" to go to Gov. Jerry Brown.

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Helpful reminders

Jun. 09, 2014

We created a way to help employees remember CCPs (critical control points). The CCPs are typed onto a self-adhesive label, which employees stick to the underside of their name badge.

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Incorporating HACCP

Jun. 09, 2014

In order to better incorporate HACCP, the department has a schedule of each standard operating procedure that needs to be addressed, which are then discussed in a team huddle at each café site.

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Spoiled containers of milk being investigated at Prince William County cafeterias

Jun. 04, 2014

Prince William County cafeterias are not selling milk this week, after workers reported some spoiled containers of milk.

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Glove up or not?

By Paul King on May 08, 2014

If you gathered a group of chefs together for a spirited conversation, what do you think would be the topic that would generate the liveliest discussion? The hottest food trends? GMOs in foodstuffs? Pros and cons of salt?

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Reusable container program meets health department rules

Apr. 24, 2014

Students at Virginia Tech can now choose a reusable to-go container rather than a foam one at the West End, one of the campus’s 11 dining halls.

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Allergen secret shoppers

Apr. 10, 2014

We have started a unique secret shopper program focused on allergies. Students who contact me for help or complaints to do with their allergy concerns are a source of information, but [to go] one step further I employ a few as secret shoppers.

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Foodservice operations protest food safety 'glove law'

Mar. 07, 2014

State lawmakers have passed a new food safety law that they wish they hadn't.

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Study links energy drinks to risky behaviors among teens

Mar. 06, 2014

Consuming highly caffeinated energy drinks like Amp, Red Bull or Rockstar could be a telltale sign of other problems for high school students, according to a Canadian study.

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