You wowed your family and friends with an amazing holiday recipe. Time to make it a high school cooking class recipe. Why not adapt that dish to a classroom lesson plan to show your students your passion — and have some fun? If your holiday dish had you salivating and Read more…
Restaurant food safety is one of the most important aspects of your business. It keeps your staff and diners safe. It can save you money in fines and waste reduction. It also protects your business reputation and sales. Food safety certifications do cost restaurants money. But they’re the law. When someone Read more…
If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to advance your career in the hospitality industry, you have some pretty cool options. In 2019, the National Restaurant Association reported one of the top challenges in the restaurant industry was staffing, as restaurant business owners must constantly recruit and retain high-quality employees. That Read more…
Do you have family coming to town and you aren’t sure how to entertain them? Food-related projects are something everyone can get on board with, especially when mixed with some fun holiday activities. The holidays can be a magical time of year, but they can also be overwhelming. Guests staying with Read more…
Culinary classrooms across the nation will be competing in a Cookbook Competition for the First Place Prize of $500 in new cooking essentials for their classroom in January 2020. And this is just one of the efforts eFoodSchools has made to ensure that students and teachers continue to have the Culinary resources they need Read more…
Thanksgiving really is the season to be thankful. We know this time of year can be wonderful, but it can also be a bit stressful, taking away from the real meaning of the holidays. Spending time with family could be great, but it could be filled with questions you don’t Read more…
According to the FDA, there are 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, 1,000 reported outbreaks, & 3,000 deaths per year from foodborne illnesses. Pretty crazy right? Sadly, it’s not crazy to the people who fell ill or to those that lost their lives due to foodborne illness. It was really real. Read more…
Handwashing is a big concern in the foodservice industry, but the problem exists elsewhere, and it starts early. After teaching preschool, I know what the typical 3-5-year-old hand washing routine looks like. To share my mental image with you, picture lunchtime at school. You start in the circle, and dismiss Read more…