City Might Require Food-Handling Course
City Councilman Bob Dinsen has seen his share of dirty ovens and unsanitary refrigerators and thinks there should be a law.
So the veteran councilman took pen to paper last week and whipped up a draft ordinance that will, if approved by the City Council, require Garden Grove’s restaurant managers to take a food-handling training course.
Dinsen said a four-hour course offered by the County of Orange for $3 “sounded like a good deal without a lot of expense for participants.”
The ordinance would require restaurants with five or more food-handling employees to have a manager who has completed the training course. About 300 restaurants and fast-food outlets licensed by the city fall under the guidelines of the ordinance, said Deputy City Manager Cathy Standiford.
The ordinance will go before the council during its Dec. 9 meeting.
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