Open for Business - Safety Guidance for Restaurant and Bars

What you will learn:   Attendees will discover

• How to plan for and execute safe reopening procedures, including properly cleaning and maintenance, physical distance requirements, and food handling policy updates
• How to effectively communicate and enforce in-store policies and procedures with staff and customers
• Marketing techniques to demonstrate and communicate their safe reopenting procedures

During the workshop, business owners will:

• Learn about the requirements for food businesses
• Individually assess what gaps and deficits exist in their own food business
• Work in small groups/pairs to brainstorm ideas for how to achieve food safety requirements and make short term and long term goals
• Identify partners and resources needed to achieve individual goals and develop action plan for tapping into those resources

What you need to bring:

• List of current health and safety procedures that are being observed
• Knowledge of resources that are presently available to you 
• Any examples of food businesses that are ‘aspirational’ to model

Who should attend:

• Business owners 
• Municipal officials, community based organizations, etc.

Session Agenda:

• (5 mins) Introductions - names and communities
• (20 mins) Presentation           
  • Covid changes - contingency planning for red, yellow, and green
  • Food safety requirement upgrades                   
    • Indoor considerations 
  • Promising practice examples
  • (20 mins) Small group work with facilitator
• (5 mins) Conclusion and next steps

Resources:

• Restaurant Association Reopening Guide
• US Foods Restaurant Reopening Blueprint 
  • Schedule a consultation with a US Food Specialist 
• Webinars from Restaurant Business and the National Business Association - very technical (off-premise shifts, insurance, marketing, etc)
• James Beard Association free webinars
• PA Restaurant and Lodging Association webinars and resources