There's nothing like roaming the NRA Show floor. It's just you, the largest buffet ever devised and the occasional Rick Bayless sighting. Oh, and about 75,000 other people.
Where tens of thousands of strangers and tens of thousands of tiny portions of delicious food mix, food safety is always top of mind. It's certainly a constant priority for restaurants, and there there's no shortage of companies offering new products to address food safety.
This year we checked out DayMark Safety Systems's reusable glove system, Glove2go.
The reusable gloves, which come in finger-style or (our preference) fashionable "paw-style" mitts, fit loosely and are more durable than conventional disposable gloves. Their stiffened magnetic collar allows them to be situated wherever they're going to be used, over and over.
Scott Heim, Executive Director of Sales and Marketing for Daymark told us about three typical uses: for bartenders, for icewater stations, and for baked goods. Hang a single pair of Gloves2go by the limes and lemons and use them just for putting the fruit in the water, nothing else.
"You're preventing cross-contamination, reducing waste, and saving a lot of money," Heim says. DayMark estimates that the reusable glove system will save restaurants an average of $1,140 per year. So far, the gloves are being used on a per-shift or a per-day basis, unless compromised by accidents or heavy use.
Anything that lets us feel less worried about that lime bobbing in our beverage sounds great to us.
What food-safety innovations did you see on NRA Show floor? Tell us.
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