Unilever Food Solutions, a food service division of Unilever, has partnered with Dubai Municipality to raise the bar on food safety across the emirate through a food safety partnership initiative.
With a clear understanding of the challenges that come with managing multi-national staff, the aim of the partnership was to make training and educational resources available in different languages to help restaurant management and chefs easily maintain the right hygiene standards in their operations, said a statement.
Lucas Dollfuss, head of marketing, Unilever Food Solutions Middle East, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, said: “Addressing food safety is complex. Chefs across the region tell us that sometimes they are simply not able to give it appropriate attention in their kitchen, because they have no easy training materials, lack time and resources.
"So together with the Dubai Municipality, we have developed a free program to reach over 4,000 restaurants with material that is easy to understand and access both via Dubai Municipality’s inspectors and our websites.”
Unilever Food Solutions has made available a toolkit for restaurants, food outlets and street food joints to access, said the statement.
The toolkit includes free of charge posters which can be implemented in the kitchen and is available in three different languages, it said.
“Our toolkit reflects not just current best practices but also easy to utilise tips and guidelines. Food safety is a major concern for both guests and operators. Independent research says that over 66 per cent guests think quite often about hygiene at the restaurants they eat at. And 78 per cent of chefs believe it is their responsibility, as well as all players in the food service industry, to ensure food safety standards are met,” said Dollfuss.
The campaign also offers restaurants a free Dubai Municipality approved e-module, which acts as a powerful refresher training.
The overall campaign material includes multilingual kitchen signs and labels, as well as free online training module.
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