Food delivery services are booming, and for good reason. For many employees who currently work from home, pizza from a delivery service or the like replaces the food from the canteen. However, food suppliers need to respect some important things in terms of food safety.
Extremely in demand: food to Go
For restaurants, it is a good way to offer food to go during the lockdown. However, there are certain risks and dangers lurking regarding food safety. This concerns the storage, handling, transport and handover of the food.
- Holding – keeping food hot or cold to prevent growth of pathogens and spoilage organisms before the food is delivered.
- Handling – handling food properly to prevent cross-contact with allergens and transmission of viruses from packaging.
- Transporting – preventing contamination, physical or temperature abuse, or tampering of the packaged food during transport.
- Delivering – ensuring delivery personnel are trained in best practices and are not an exposure risk to the consumer.
Food safety: take important safety precautions
Delivery services should always have these critical points on their radar and take appropriate safety precautions. Not only because the legislation wants it that way. In uncertain times like these, delivery services that show their customers that they care about their safety make a big difference. Our tip: Before handing over food to a customer, sanitise your hands visibly with hand sanitising wipes.
In this way, you show how much you care about the well-being of your customers, and that you do not want to transmit dangerous germs at any time. You could also provide your customers with a pack of hygiene wipes as a small giveaway - as a small piece of security. Customers might even like that better than the traditional bottle of table wine. After all, at the moment, nothing is as important as being and staying healthy.
Stay healthy!
