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Introducing: Violent Dining – Presented by Restaurant Expert Witness
Restaurant Expert Witness is proud to introduce: Violent Dining Exposing America's Best Kept Secrets...Until Now. 8 people per day die in a restaurant. 30 rapes per day. 100 intentional contaminations per day. The restaurant industry is the most dangerous industry on...
Why Do Drive Thru Hot Coffee Burns Happen?
When a hot coffee burn occurs in a restaurant drive thru, simply determining what happened is not enough. It's obvious that a customer was burned, but that does not provide an answer as to the reasons why. A proper investigation should go further and determine why it...
Industry Standards Matter
Restaurant slip and fall safety should be a priority for every restaurant. Restaurant floors face hazards every day. Water, grease, food, beverages, and cleaning products can create unsafe conditions. As a result, serious falls can happen. However, the condition of...
Restaurant Management Safety: Get Out of the Office
Restaurant management safety requires more than sitting behind a desk. A manager can have knowledge, experience, passion, and compassion. However, those qualities mean little if they never reach the front lines. Restaurant and bar operations happen on the floor. That...
16 Signs of Visible Intoxication Every Bartender and Server Should Recognize
Slurred speech is a late sign. Howard Cannon breaks down 16 early signs of visible intoxication every bartender and server should know how to spot.
Visible Intoxication vs. Plowed Drunk
Even alcohol service workers that have almost no training can and reasonably should be able to recognize those most obvious signs of someone that is plowed drunk. We all see that kind of stuff on television and movies – and sadly in real life also. But they should be trained in detecting and recognizing visible signs of intoxication early.
We Wrote the Book
Howard Cannon, America's leading restaurant expert witness, has written the definitive guide on the restaurant slip and fall lawsuit — covering everything attorneys and insurers need for premises liability cases. Drawing on decades of hands-on industry experience and...
Why We Do What We Do at Restaurant Expert Witness: The Slip and Fall Edition
Howard Cannon breaks down why restaurant slip and fall incidents happen — and how a restaurant expert witness can help attorneys and owners understand what went wrong.
Restaurant Employee Responsibilities
Restaurant Employee Responsibilities Restaurant safety is not management's responsibility alone. Employees play an important role, too. Restaurant employee responsibilities include participating in training, following established procedures, recognizing hazards,...
Acts of Violence in the Restaurant Industry
Workplace violence has long been prevalent in the restaurant industry due to several high-risk factors, such as: the exchange of cash with the public working alone, in isolated work sites or high-crime areas delivering of food products the sale of alcoholic...