Two Sites Worth Reading: HACCP and Putting Small Farms on Internet

Hi everyone! I hope this Monday has gotten off to a good start for you.

I came across two interesting items today on the Internet that I really think are worth passing along to you restaurant owners and managers.

The first is the main meal. It deals with an important subject: FOOD SAFETY.

Food safety is key to the success of any restaurant for the sheer reason that if your food isn't safe people get sick, you lose customers, and then someone closes your doors.

Here's the article title and link:

HACCP - What is it and how can it Help My Restaurant?

by Malcolm J. Richmond

Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points or HACCP is a preventive approach to food safety that aims to prevent hazardous effects to consumers by identifying potential food safety hazards in all food industries and applying certain actions known as Critical Control Points to reduce and eliminate threats to the health of consumers.

HACCP started in the 1960s when the United States’ NASA needed to make sure that their astronauts would not become sick from the foods they carried into space. The company Pillsbury was chosen to prepare the food for NASA’s space flights because the stringent production systems they used helped to ensure the safety of their foods. They also invented the acronym HACCP.

Click over to read the rest. It's worth your time.

This second link is more the desert of today's meal. It's an idea that's just finding some traction and I think could have a very good possibility of taking off and helping local restaurants to buy from local farmers in a more efficient means.

Can Putting Farmers Online Make Food Biz More Sustainable?

Jennifer Kho

The idea of buying food from a local farm might seem like the very opposite of high tech. But FarmsReach, a California startup that won the audience choice award at our Green:Net conference this week, hopes to make it easier to buy directly from farms by putting produce online.

The company has developed a web marketplace to make it easier for buyers — such as restaurants, hospitals and schools — to order produce from nearby farmers, and for farmers to manage their sales and deliveries. Farmers list the produce they have for sale on the site, and buyers can search for the fruits and vegetables they want and place orders, either picking them up at nearby farmer’s markets or having them delivered.

Follow the link above for the rest of the post. It really sounds like a viable idea if they could work through the means to input inventories. Small farms are one of the fast growing (pun unintended) sectors in the USA from what I've been hearing lately.

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Until next time.