Food drink Jerusalem Shawarma rolls out compulsory staff authorized leave following norovirus outbreak – Calgary Herald

A regional shawarma chain is introducing new measures to fight the spread of disease after being linked to an outbreak of norovirus recently.

Jerusalem Shawarma is increase its food safety procedure after Alberta Health Solutions stated the restaurant chain was linked to an outbreak of norovirus that left 123 people ill after eating food from the restaurant.

” Jerusalem Shawarma has actually now implemented enhanced policies, with boosted staff training and a brand-new system to ensure their compliance,” checked out a news release from the chain on Tuesday.

The restaurant says it has actually introduced a “seasonal disease prevention plan,” which will include mandatory authorized leave for personnel, an internal system for reporting and investigating grievances related to illness, personnel training and appointing an independent body to guarantee compliance with dining establishment policy.

AHS inspectors finished 27 examinations of Jerusalem Shawarma restaurants over a 12- day duration this month. They connected norovirus to four of the chain’s 10 Calgary locations and identified some locations of issue surrounding food storage and preparation.

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No dining establishments were closed as an outcome of AHS examinations.

The popular Calgary chain states they’ve been running at a minimized capacity over the previous couple of weeks as they present the changes. They include that they have actually “made instant management workers changes” and that they want to go back to organisation as typical shortly.

” We wish to thank our clients and Alberta Health Providers for dealing with us throughout this duration, and expect business going back to typical,” the restaurant said in the news release.

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