Top 10 casual dining food safety challenges

Casual dining restaurants are being forced to do more with less as the industry attempts to bounce back from several years of declining sales and traffic. This can impact training and stretch location-level workers, leaving them juggling many tasks.

In an already busy environment, a labor shortage can lead to important tasks being done improperly or cutting corners – and when it comes to food safety, either of these can put the public’s health at risk.

We conducted more than 2,500 assessments in the first 7 months of 2022 to determine the top food safety issues plaguing casual dining restaurants.