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Food Safety and Food Storage Checklist: Post-Covid (BOH)

Use this checklist to determine if food safety is being enforced within your establishment or restaurant. This checklist will help you give assurance to your diners hat your operation follows every precaution to ensure restaurant food safety guidelines.

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07/23/2022

Food Safety and Food Storage Checklist: Post-Covid (BOH)

On the Frontline: Best FOH Practices for Food Safety

Your diners deserve to know that your restaurant takes food hygiene seriously, and this can be demonstrated with good FOH practices.

The examples below are some practices that restaurants are currently adopting – you can adopt and implement some of these food safety tips in your establishment/ operation too (or even improve on them).

Keep those hands clean with sanitizer

Placing a bottle of hand sanitizer at the entrance of your restaurant and visibly cleaning contact surfaces routinely are some of the simplest, yet most effective demonstrations of care that you can give your diners. It shows diners that you care about the cleanliness of your restaurant, and their health.

Tell diners what you're doing to keep them safe

Be vocal about the measures you’re taking to keep the coronavirus at bay. Place posters and signs at the entrance of your restaurant informing diners of safety measures that you’ve implemented.

Provide masks to staff

All FOH and BOH staff should wear masks throughout the day. The masks serve the very real purpose of stopping any staff members who may be unknowing carriers from spreading the virus, while also providing diners with assurance that their food is “extra protected” during this period.

Protect your utensils or shift to sustainable disposables

Are your restaurant’s utensils left in a communal area for diners to pick up? Consider placing them in bags or covering them instead, so any stray particles don’t end up landing on the utensils.

Source: MaintainX (Community Member)