When you own a food restaurant, you are always in the quest to attract customers, retain the existing customers, and make a good name for yourself and your restaurant. Your restaurant will have a good reputation when the food quality and the customer service are recommendable. To increase food quality, you need to understand the technologies to use to enhance food safety.
Prevent Contamination of Food
Applying food safety in your restaurant is crucial, especially in the kitchen, because little contamination can affect the food. When there are contaminants in the food, there can be incidences like allergic reactions and food poisoning that can tarnish your restaurant’s reputation. With the use of technology, the food quality is maintained, and the shelf life is extended.
The technology is used to inactivate and reduce the development of microbial organisms in food. For instance, using microwave and radiofrequency electric field heating enhances food safety technology. Heating will allow for sterilization and will help to reduce the bacteria populations to increase in meat products.
Minimize Food Waste
With the increased food waste in restaurants, innovative food technologies have been developed to reduce food waste. When you don’t minimize food wastage, you are likely to incur huge losses in your restaurant. Some technologies will help reduce food wastage by detecting the contaminated products early.
Moreover, you can minimize good wastage by using a food safety technology associated with food recalls. For instance, you can also use artificial intelligence to reduce false rejects like metal detectors that detect metal contaminants in food products such as milk products, fish, and meat products.
Minimize Labor
Too much handling of food and kitchen equipment by people working in your restaurant can cause food unsafety. Technology has made it easy to use automation in the cooking of food. For instance, machines have been innovated to make food products like pizza and fries. There are also cutting tools for cutting cakes and meat products.
Since the machines cook faster, there will be consistency in food ordering hence reducing human error. Your employees can try to be quicker and end up being messy and contaminating the food. Using technology gives the customers a faster experience which is all that is needed.
Protocol Awareness
Your customers and your staff members need to abide by the health protocols that reduce any foodborne illnesses. You need to use technology to improve customers’ awareness to wash their hands before eating and remind your employees to frequently clean the kitchen surfaces and their hands in the preparation and serving the food.
Temperature Change Detection
As a restaurant owner, you need to emphasize the kitchen staff the need to monitor the refrigerator’s temperature. Since you stock a lot of food to be cooked in the fridge, constant monitoring will detect any change in the temperature level and carry out the necessary action to prevent the food from going bad.
Restaurants owners should properly implement advanced technology to ensure food security, reliability, and uncomplicated business flow. In return, there will be increased customers, good reputation leading to more profits.
To learn more on how you can be food safe in your restaurant, please see the infographic below.
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