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Friday, 23 September 2016

23 years late, Chipotle gets food safety religion (or so they lecture)

Source: barfblog.com --- Wednesday, September 21, 2016
I just registered for an Ice Hockey Australia Level 2 coaching course. The course is rarely offered, and there’s only a couple of level 2 coaches in Queensland. It will take 25 hours of training to complete. That’s on top of the 16 hours I put in for Coach 1 in Australia, and recertification every two years. It’s similar to the Intermediate Level Coach status I had in Canada back in 2001, which was required to coach a rep or travel team. It’s a lot of time, sitting in a classroom, and on the ice. I view it as my church, my community service. So when Chipotle makes a big deal saying all of its managers will be trained in food safety the ServSafe way, I shrug, and ask, why weren’t they before? How far was Chipotle’s head up its own moralistic ass that it paid more attention to food porn – like hormones and GE foods – than to food safety, the things that make people barf? Great, you’re going to require training. Anyone ask if the training is any good? Third-party audits? Nice soundbite but they’re just a paycheck. Handwashing every thirty minutes? McDonald’s have been doing that for decades (you’d think Chipotle would have picked that up when they were partnered with McDonald’s, but no, there was food porn to peddle). The Chipotle announcement reads like a moralistic lecture,and that no one had discovered food safety before. A year after the outbreaks, Chipotle is now getting into standard PR – which it should have done months ago ( ...



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