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99 Restaurant and cleanliness

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

There is a jingle the 99 Restaurants uses says there are 99 reasons why you always come back for more. Now I am adding a 100. Cleanliness. While other local chains serve up the same slimy greasy menus, the 99 has their staff clean them. I saw it in action. Each page was methodically cleaned [...]

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Summer grilling and food safety

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s almost summer here in Massachusetts. We’ve had a couple of seasonably warm days and very cool nights. If you have the windows down when you drive, you can smell the cookouts, in backyards. Finally, after a miserable long winter, we can grill again.
 Those hamburgers and hot dogs, potato salad and cole slaw make for [...]

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It’s Not Always About the Food – Dirty Restaurant Menus

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Is there something in the ServeSafe course on cleaning restaurant menus? Is it always about safe food handling?
Tonight my family went to Bertucci’s, a chain restaurant that serves Italian like food, for a light dinner. It may be the last time any of us go to a Bertucci’s. Along with the food are the predictable [...]

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Utah Salmonella Linked to Queso Fresco

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Food Safety alert
Public health agencies in Utah, in coordination with the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, have been investigating a cluster of Salmonella Newport cases in which it appears that the common link is queso fresco, a Mexican-style soft cheese. Officials don’t believe the contaminated cheese is being produced or sold commercially. Epidemiologic investigations [...]

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Major ground beef recall before holiday

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Ground beef recall, almost 100K pounds. That’s a lot of burgers! Frozen blueberries recalled in Oregon and more!
I buy 94% ground sirloin burgers at my local butchers.  They grind the meat in-house.  That way, it’s not processed in a plant. Frozen ground burgers are a big convenience. It’s amazing that before a major cook-out holiday, there [...]

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