DISPLAYING NOTICE AND DOCUMENTS IN FOOD PREMISE

A close friend of mine visited me last week.  It’s his business trip.  He came to do some kind of audits against the outlets.  We haven’t seen each other’s for 2 years. So, I offered to fetch him at the airport and bring him to have good food in these days. 

We fixed the time to have good food together as we have work in certain time.  I brought him to a comfortable restaurant, that I had been visited for 2 times. The restaurant’s design is cool. It’s air-conditioned and we saw framed certificates hanging on the wall. These certificates are printed in the food menu as well.  Actually, I was impressed and convinced by these certificates about premise hygiene last time and decide to dine in.

Food handlers should display the framed food premise registration in the premise. Health inspectors would ask the food premise manager to show the documents each time they inspect the premise.  Some food premise displaying food handlers training course certificates and anti-typhoid vaccination card too.  Anyway, food premise manager may just keep these 2 documents of every food handler’s and to show the health officers upon their request.   

I like certain restaurants that have hand washing stations for food handlers and customers.  The hand washing station is consist of water supply, soap dispenser, tissue dispenser and a food activated waste bin.  Some restaurant owners installed hand dryer.  On this facility, food business owner could paste a hand washing posters to remind customers or food handlers to wash hands correctly.   

Food premise owners should display a PETS AND ANIMAL FREE poster or notice on the wall to remind food handlers or customers, not to bring / allow pets or wild animal to enter the food premise.  I guess, the reason that dogs stay in the restaurant is because customer feed the dog with bone after they consumed the food.   I knew a restaurant owner who has dog problem outside his restaurant.  The owner always educates his staff not to feed the wild dogs.  They gather the food leftover, bones etc and feed those wild dogs elsewhere.  He then calls the local municipals personnel to catch the dogs at his area.   
  
Food business owners and food handlers has the responsibility to maintain the food safety in the premise so that to avoid food poisoning.