If you’re a bar owner or manager, you might feel like your biggest asset is the drinks you serve. After all, aren’t people coming in to order their favorite wine, a craft beer or your proprietary mixed drink? While the drinks you serve are important, just as valuable is the glass those drinks are served in.
It goes without saying that cleanliness and food safety are integral parts of every foodservice operation. From the moment a customer steps in the door, every team member should be focused on serving a great product safely. All of the back-of-house areas, from the food prep area to the dishroom, play an especially important role in protecting customers from risk; and a few simple best practices...
Anyone who’s had some experience with commercial dishwashers has heard about lime scale, and has probably even experienced the white scale building up inside the machine. Lime scale is the deposit of calcium and other minerals left behind when hard water evaporates. The hardness of water is measured in grains of minerals per gallon, and refers generally to calcium and magnesium. The higher the...
