Food Safety Training Course Offered

By Andrea Nisley

ServSafe Starters Food Safety Training Course will be offered on Wednesday, September 12 at the Community Building, West 5^th and O Streets, McCook, from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. with registration beginning at 1:15 p.m.; and Thursday, September 13 at the Dawson County Extension Office Meeting Room, Fairgrounds, 1002 Plum Creek Parkway, Lexington, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with registration beginning at 8:15 a.m.

The ServSafe Starters program is designed for kitchen employees including but not limited to cooks, dish machine operators, shipment receivers and employees who handle and prepare food in restaurants and other food service establishments.  ServSafe Starters is the second level of the Nebraska Restaurant Association’s Food Safety First Program.  The first level is the ServSafe training program for restaurant owners and food service managers.

Extension Educators, Andrea Nisley and Mary K Warner will teach the ServSafe Starters course sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension.  Register by September 5.  Fifteen employees need to be preregistered to be able to offer the course.

For further information contact these local Extension offices in Lexington at 308-324-5501; in McCook at 308-345-3390 or toll free at 877-674-6947.