FULTON COUNTY, Ga — A restaurant owner says her restaurant has already seen improvements after she received food and safety training.
In the past two months, only a couple of Fulton County restaurants failed their health inspections. There are specific health regulations that every Georgia restaurant has to follow.
Channel 2’s Carol Sbarge spoke with a restaurant owner Wednesday who recieved training from a food and safety expert with Fulton County and then made sure every worker at her Hapeville restaurant followed what she learned.
Christine Chantahkinh has managed Thai Heaven in Hapeville for five years. She says she thought she knew a lot about food safety, but she recently discovered what she didn’t know during an extra training from Fulton’s health services last month.
“The proper way of serving the food. How the food should come out. At what temperature…” Chantahakinh said.
She took everything she learned and shared all of that with the staff and is seeing results.
“From back then to now, it’s a major change. We’re doing everything the right way, the correct way, everything is proper and clean,” Chantahkinh said.
Before the staff got the extra training, they received a C and a B on their inspections, but after the training, they received an A.
Restaurants being proactive in getting more training may be paying off in Fulton County. In August, only one restaurant failed an inspection. Edna Stigger, a public health instructor for Fulton County, says it really helps when restaurant managers seek training in food safety and inspection regulations and then share that with their workers.
“And when they don’t do this, they’re really hurting their whole restaurant. They may know what to do, but if the people who are working for them do not, when the inspector comes in, it results in a lower score,” Stigger said.
Chantahkinh says, while she is very proud of the latest score of 96, she is now encouraging the staff to aim for a 100.
WSBTV
