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Farm to Fork: 9 Ways Restaurants can Assure Local Food is Safe to Eat
The rising popularity of locally grown, sustainable foods can mostly be attributed to the growing consumer interest in obtaining fresh foods directly from the farm. In urban areas, restaurants can...
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Key 2014 Buildings and Facilities Tradeshows
What are the latest green building trends? What new technologies are facility managers using to address maintenance issues? How can facility managers make buildings safer among patrons? Staying current...
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Offer a Clean and Safe Dining Experience – In the Front and Back of the House
According to the 2012 Tork Report, we touch about 300 surfaces every 30 minutes – exposing ourselves to about 840,000 germs per half hour. With many patrons visiting restaurants each day and multiple...
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4 Easy Ways to Improve Hygiene in Assisted Living Facilities
Our country’s aging population is putting more and more pressure on assisted living and long-term care centers to provide consistent, high-quality care for residents. It has been reported that there...
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More Cities Mandate Paid Sick Leave
More Cities Mandate Paid Sick Leave. This month, Rhode Island became the third state to offer workers paid family leave. That’s time off to care for a new baby or a loved one. Portland, Oregon, and...
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Continuing The Fight Against Healthcare Infections
Continuing The Fight Against HAIs. Copper-infused products and their potential impact in fighting healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are not new to our industry. But as emphasis grows on reducing...
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Mobile Shopping Is the New Normal
Mobile Shopping Is the New Normal. Mobile marketing is poised for takeoff as smartphone use as a shopping tool increases among consumers, a recent study suggests. According to Baynote’s “2014 Holiday...
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Why Hand Washing Makes Us Healthier – and Happier
As the Dalai Lama tells us, “as human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery… and we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace.” But what if you could achieve the goal of being...
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Flu Season Invades Offices
Flu Season Etiquette: What You Need to Know About Sickness And The Office. Flu season is upon us and employees who work in close quarters are particularly susceptible to the highly contagious illness....
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Orange juice? That’s like drinking soda for breakfast!
Orange juice? That’s like drinking soda for breakfast! Juice of any kind is not particularly healthy, and contains as much sugar as a can of soda, which is the last thing children struggling with...
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Too Many Americans Go To Work While Sick
Too Many Americans Go To Work While Sick. Worried about lost wages, a backlog of work or punishment from the boss, more than one in four American workers recently surveyed said they show up to work...
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College Campuses Continue to be Ideal for Outbreaks
College Campuses Continue to be Ideal for Outbreaks. Recent outbreaks of measles, mumps, and meningitis at several universities demonstrate that college campuses continue to be ideal outbreak locations...
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Why Online Shopping is Out of Control
Why Online Shopping is Out of Control. Online shopping came close to hitting the $300 billion mark in sales in 2013 in the U.S. alone—and that number is expected to grow by nine to 12% in 2014....
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How to Create the Perfect Bathroom
Whether you are at work, at home or on the go, when using the bathroom you want the experience to be pleasant. Here are four easy ways to create the perfect bathroom at your restaurant: Primp and...
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Common Pain Relievers Fight Bacterial Infections
Common Pain Relievers Fight Bacterial Infections. Potentially huge news is simmering in the world of infectious disease treatment. Researchers publishing in the journal Chemistry and Biology have found...
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The 5 Keys to Building a Better School
Reading, writing and arithmetic no longer fulfills the breadth of knowledge children need to succeed. Similarly, as technology and society evolve, so does our understanding of what a good educational...
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Top Five Tips to Spring Clean Your Restaurant
As warmer weather returns, we are reminded of the annual tradition to spring clean. It is particularly important for restaurants to maintain a clean, safe environment for employees and staff and to...
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The Joke’s on you: The Truth about Hand Hygiene
It’s well known that proper hand washing is important to maintain your health and the health of those around you. Nevertheless, according to a recent study, 95 percent of people still don’t wash their...
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Copper Surfaces Fight Bacterial Infection
Copper Surfaces Fight Bacterial Infection. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granted a public health registration to certain copper alloys for its ability to kill specific bacteria, including...
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8 Virus Outbreaks In 3 Months
8 Virus Outbreaks In 3 Months. Reports hit the news of another Princess Cruise with a boatload of sick passengers. This time it was the Crown Princess, on a weeklong voyage along the coast of Southern...
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How to Combat Allergy Season at Work
According to recent statistics, Americans are working longer hours than ever before, and some people feel as if they spend more time in their office than at home. If that’s you, make sure you’re taking...
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Learning the Art of Lunch Meetings
You’re at lunch with a colleague meeting a potential client. Everyone has arrived on time. A few ice-breaking laughs were shared as you all were seated at the table. The lunch meeting is off to a...
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Why Presentations Always Die After 10 Minutes And How To Rescue Them
Why Presentations Always Die After 10 Minutes And How To Rescue Them. Your audience will mentally check out of your next PowerPoint presentation after about 10 minutes. Given a presentation of...
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The Periodic Table of Content Marketing
The Periodic Table of Content Marketing. One of the most scientific—and calculated— forms of marketing is content marketing. Curating and crafting valuable content can be executed and measured in a...
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Healthcare Roundup
Educate Patients and Doctors about Hand Hygiene. It’s important that patients know how to have a conversation with their doctors and nurses about hand washing to prevent infection. Organizations must...
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Two Environmental Keys to Patient Satisfaction
Since the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) – a mandated survey of patients’ perspectives of hospital care – rolled out in the last few years, patient...
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How to Boost Brain Power: Healthcare Roundup
9 Ways To Get The Most Out Of Your Mind. Whether it’s becoming a Sudoku champion or remembering the name of someone you just met, everyone probably wishes they could muster up a little extra brain...
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Contamination Found in North American Food Supply: Foodservice Roundup
Why We Need To Pay Attention To This Superbug-Contaminated Food. Scientists have found a previously undetected drug-resistant bacterium in the North American food supply. The location — a grocery store...
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The Dirt on Clean Laundry: The Truth About Shop Rags
Have you ever wondered why shop towels are red or blue? While they may start off white, shop towels are dyed red when they become stained. And after multiple uses, they may be re-dyed blue to cover up...
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Vaccine Costs Are Soaring: Healthcare Roundup
The Price of Prevention: Vaccine Costs Are Soaring. Vaccination prices have gone from single digits to sometimes triple digits in the last two decades, creating dilemmas for doctors and their patients...
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Speed Vs. Quality of Service at Your Restaurant: Foodservice Roundup
Speed Vs. Quality of Service at Your Restaurant. When customers go out for a meal, they want to get exactly what they ordered, complete with impeccable service. But they also want their meal as soon as...
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Why You Should Add A ‘Done List’ To Your To-Do List: Office Roundup
Why You Should Add A ‘Done List’ To Your To-Do List. I have a bit of a to-do list problem. At any given moment, I have four such lists going: two for the week (personal and work-related), one for the...
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Tips for Healthy Work Travel
Business travelers face many challenges when it comes to their personal wellbeing – from battling stress and getting a good night’s sleep, to maintaining a healthy diet and getting adequate exercise....
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The One and Only Way to Get Healthy: Healthcare Round-up
The One and Only Way to Get Healthy. When it comes to our health, most of us know what we need to do to improve it — more movement, more vegetables, less sugar, less stress, etc. Despite the messages...
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Fight The Flu In The Workplace
Each fall when flu season rolls around, many people worry about their children contracting the infectious disease at school, where tiny hands, noses and mouths can go unwashed and unwiped. While...
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Top Germ-Infested Public Places
The average adult can touch as many as 30 objects within a minute, and the Centers for Disease Control estimates up to 80 percent of all infections are transmitted by hands. Keeping germs at bay is no...
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How to Dispose of Wipers Following EPA Guidelines
Disposable wipers provide many benefits and address an array of pain points related to health, safety, cost and efficiency—but it’s essential to dispose of them correctly, particularly when using...
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Hygiene Matters: A Surprising Personal Retreat
What do sleeping, eating and crying have in common? Well, what happens in the workplace washroom may be a bit more surprising than you’d think. The 2014 SCA Hygiene Matters survey revealed some...
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Why Purchase New Equipment for Your Restaurant: Foodservice Round-Up
Why Purchase New Equipment for Your Restaurant Purchasing new equipment from a restaurant supply store might not be the first thing on your mind as a restaurant manager, but we can guarantee you that...
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Tips for a Green and Clean Work Environment
In the past, products that thoroughly cleaned and sanitized were often considered effective and not given a lot of extra thought. But today we know better. We know that cleaning products can contain...
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New Year, New Members: 4 Tips to Show Your Gym’s Strength
The New Year comes fast, and with it so does a newfound motivation for fitness. Each year gyms see an influx of customers, with about 30 percent of all new members coming from the first quarter of the...
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Difference between Cleaning, Sanitizing and Disinfecting: Environment & Task
Picture this: a busy restaurant, a long wait list and a newly-vacant table that needs to be ready for the next guest. The staff are likely clearing the table and trying to quickly turn it around,...
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Strengthening Hospital Hand Hygiene Compliance Programs
When training hospital staff, it’s easy to overlook one of the most fundamental disease prevention practices due to its simplicity. While most Americans begin learning to wash their own hands as...
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How to Choose the Right Soap for Your Business
With the arrival of spring comes a new challenge for business owners across the country. While it’s easy to assume cold and flu season disappears with the snow, employees and building guests are still...
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Technology That Defends Against Hospital-Acquired Infections: Healthcare...
Technology That Defends Against Hospital-Acquired Infections. In the news: Medicare cut payments to five Middle Tennessee hospitals because of failure to control healthcare-associated infections (HAIs)...
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Elevated Flu Activity in December
CDC reports elevated flu activity in December. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported increased flu activity during the last week of December. Flu contributed to two pediatric deaths...
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5 Excellent Food Resolutions For The New Year
5 Excellent Food Resolutions For The New Year. 2014 has been declared the “International Year of Family Farming” by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. It’s all part of the exciting global...
View ArticleMediterranean Diet is the Best Way to Prevent Chronic Illness
Doctors Say a Mediterranean Diet is the Best Way to Prevent Chronic Illness. A very refreshing report has just come out of Britain. Eleven senior doctors have presented a strong, new mandate to Prime...
View ArticleFive Tips for a Germ-Free Health Club
With the weather becoming colder, people are migrating indoors. You may think that going to the gym is the last place people want to be on a cold winter’s night but according to NewPort Natural Health,...
View Article97 Percent of Chicken Carries Bacteria That Could Make You Sick
97 Percent of Chicken Carries Bacteria That Could Make You Sick. Researchers at Consumer Reports found almost all grocery store chicken sold in the U.S. is contaminated with bacteria that can...
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