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Dirty grooming is one of a bad habits in personal hygiene. Dirty grooming not only tarnish your own reputation, it also tarnishes your company or restaurant reputation. Having a dirty grooming will result in food poisoning . Food poisoning is the illness caused by eating food contaminated with harmful bacteria. Dirty grooming includes Dirty boots, dirty apron, dirty fingernails
The symptoms of food poisoning are diarrhoea, vomiting, abdominal pain.
If 2 or more consumer complaind about your stall or company, investigation will be carried out. If found out that the caused of food poisoning is from your stall, points will be demerit or in serious cases, the suspension of stall license. This is what happened to the indian rojak stall previously.
To prevent this from happening, nails must be cut every 3 days, to be sure that cleanliness is at its best, hands must be washed every time before food handling.
Boots to be cleaned with a wet cloth everyday, a wet cloth with a little soap if possible.
Chef uniform which includes Chef jacket,Chef hat, Chef apron, Chef pants, to be changed everyday. a good habit to do so.
Better Be Safe then Sorry. (BBSS)
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ReplyDeleteNixon I think this applies more for hawker centers because in most restaurants, we are unable to see the kitchen staff at all right? - Don
ReplyDeleteDirty grooming in my opinion , not only affects business of the particular stall . It also contributes to potential physical hazrads which can be controled/ prevent . preventing by checking our grooming attire regularly and controling by visual inspection daily .
ReplyDeleteHow does dirty gromming led to food poisoning ? The indian rojak stall incident wasnt because of dirty gromming, it was because of the raw ingredient drip onto the food, cross- contamination occur and led to food poisoning. - Calisa
ReplyDelete@Don - i agree to certain extent, but that doesnt meant that if staffs working at back of house, doesnt meant that hygiene is been neglected, there are hygiene officers sent by NEA to collect food samples to check for bacteria count and also the environment cleanliness.
ReplyDelete@ 2nd comment : I agree,there are different ways of controlling physical hazards, one of the best ways to educate staffs about the grave dangers of food poisoning.
@ Calisa: when dirty grooming occurs, there are bound to be food contamination, for eample, a dirty chef jacket may have foreign object attached to the fibre of the jacket, if we will to handle food, this foreign object will dropped or transferred to the food, causing food contamination and thus leading to food poisoning. And what i meant for the indian rojak stall is that food poisoning tarnishing the reputation of the stall, not the cause of food poisoning.