Food Service

Food Safety Basics A Reference Guide for Foodservice Operators (FN572) This manual for foodservice operators reviews basic aspects of food sanitation throughout a foodservice operation and provides reference materials on food storage and other aspects of food safety.

Keep Hot Foods Hot and Cold Foods Cold: A Foodservice Guide to Thermometers and Safe Temperatures (FN712) Chef's should not depend on their instincts, cooking time, oven temperature or product appearance to determine when a product is done: thermometers are important tools for protecting foods.

It’s Clean, But Is It Sanitized? (FN1350) Find out the difference between cleaning and sanitizing.

Pickle Buckets Can Cause Foodborne Illness! (FN1381) Using five-gallon pickle buckets and other types of large deep containers for cooling hot foods should be avoided at all costs. While convenient for storage, these containers are much too large to be used for cooling food safely. Food may be stored in these buckets only after it has been properly cooled to refrigeration temperatures.