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Breezing Through a Food Truck Health Inspection
• May 31, 2017
Categories: Food Trucks
You’ve ordered, received and installed every bit of the commercial kitchen ventilation that you needed for your food truck. Business has been brisk. Everything seems to be running smoothly. Until the health department decides to inspect your operation to make sure everything is also running safely.
It’s wise to treat every day as though your restaurant operation could be inspected. That way, the chances of threats to food safety can be minimized. Plus, you’re not caught flatfooted. Here are some tips, courtesy of Mobile-Cuisine.com, for ensuring that your food truck passes its health inspection:
Make a point to carefully inspect your truck at least once a month. When conducting these self-inspections, it’s a good idea to have someone else play your role so that all employees will know what to expect. In fact, you may wish to pull a surprise inspection. Use a local inspection sheet, if available, point out positive and negative findings and then meet with your staff to delegate who will do what to remediate any outstanding issues.
Use previous inspection reports to help you and your staff clean your service window area, kitchen, cooler and storage areas. By demonstrating to an inspector that you are willing to address previous issues, you show that you take the process seriously, which can only help in the long run, as you will often deal with the same inspector on each visit...

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America’s Wackiest Concession Stand Foods
• May 31, 2017
Categories: Food Trucks
Concession stands and food trucks are known for their creativity and diversity. Freed of many of the conformities of the restaurant industry, freshly cooked food from concessions stands. Many stadiums, theaters, food truck pods, and cities in the Un...

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