Case
Teaching Notes
Abstract
Food safety errors can have disastrous consequences on a company’s profitability, image, and loss of lives. Therefore, it is critical that hospitality managers, employees, and students understand the importance of food safety and methods to implement best practices. Using the example of Chipotle Mexican Grill foodborne illness outbreaks, this case study highlights when, where, and how food safety errors occurred in this specific instance. This case study encourages critical thinking about food safety errors occur, causes of such errors, and how to detect, resolve, and prevent errors. In addition, the goal of the case study is for the audience to learn skills required for effective management of food safety errors, and identify training techniques that can be used to develop such skills.
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