{"id":3640,"date":"2018-09-12T09:49:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T13:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpura.com\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2018-09-12T09:49:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T13:49:02","slug":"top-reasons-restaurants-fail-health-inspections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrkumar.com\/zenpura\/2018\/09\/12\/top-reasons-restaurants-fail-health-inspections\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Reasons Restaurants Fail Health Inspections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No one wants to appear on the restaurant health inspection report. Without taking proper preventative steps, restaurants and food service facilities could see themselves on it. Here are a few areas that most restaurants fail on their health inspection report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Food Surfaces<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure all areas that come in contact with food are cleaned and sanitized<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do not allow food to sit on counters or shelves in open containers<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clean up food spills immediately<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Never store food on the floor \u2013 always lift up shelves so rodents do not have easy access<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Equipment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure equipment is in good working order, easy to clean and not damaged. Make sure to resurface or discard cutting boards as they become scratched and calibrate thermometers properly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Physical Building Facilities<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seal up any cracks and holes outside the building or faults in the structure, especially areas where pipes and utilities enter<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep tree branches and shrubs trimmed<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure vents are screened and gaps around windows and doors are sealed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Nonfood Surfaces<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure non food surfaces (bottom of pants to floors) are kept clean so there is not an accumulation of soil that can contaminate food.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Employee Handwashing<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2034\" src=\"https:\/\/zenpura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/shutterstock-hand-wash-sinkjpg-0cb6c6d388acad6b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"260\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure sinks are easy to access and not blocked<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Always make sure they are stocked with soap and paper towels.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure the handwashing signage is posted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Pest Management Association recommends that restaurants and food service facilities implement an integrated pest management (IPM) program. IPM is a process involving common sense and sound solutions for treating and controlling pests. These solutions incorporate three basic steps: 1) inspection, 2) identification and 3) treatment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contact Zenpura Pest Solutions for more information on how we can help you make sure your restaurant or food service facility is pest and rodent free for your next inspection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one wants to appear on the restaurant health inspection report. Without taking proper preventative steps, restaurants and food service facilities could see themselves on it. Here are a few areas that most restaurants fail on their health inspection report. Food Surfaces Make sure all areas that come in contact with food are cleaned and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrkumar.com\/zenpura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrkumar.com\/zenpura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrkumar.com\/zenpura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrkumar.com\/zenpura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrkumar.com\/zenpura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mrkumar.com\/zenpura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrkumar.com\/zenpura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrkumar.com\/zenpura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrkumar.com\/zenpura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}