Food Safety Audit Policy Overview:

CookUnity has begun a cycle of internal food safety audits for all teams in all locations. The primary goal with these audits is to ensure federal, state, and local standards and guidelines are being met across all “work product” or meals being produced in CookUnity facilities, as well as ensuring CookUnity eaters are getting the freshest, safest food possible.

• Teams will be graded per store, or location

• For frequency of audits, see below

• Additional Overview HERE (please share this with all of you employees, as well as the audit form (link below)

• Chef-owners and team leads will receive a copy of the audit report the same day it takes place (via email)

• Chef-owners will be notified immediately if a penalty results in any re-audit

Audit Cycle:

Each Chef should anticipate a food safety audit once every two to four weeks by a member of CookUnity’s food safety or culinary team. If a team receives a failing grade, they should expect to be re-audited the following week. If you fail the re-audit then penalties apply.

Audit 1 (Anywhere from 2-4 weeks per cycle)

Possible outcomes:

1. Pass, team would not be re-audited for another 2-4 weeks

2. Re-audit (chef team fails, would be re-inspected in 1 week)

Audit 2 (ONLY occurs if Audit 1 resulted in Re-audit, occurs one week following Audit 1)

Possible outcomes:

1. Pass, team would not be re-audited for another 2-4 weeks

2. Fails Audit 2 (see penalty structure below)

Audit 3 (ONLY occurs if Audit 2 resulted in Re-audit, occurs one week following Audit 2)

Possible outcomes:

1. Pass, team would not be re-inspected for another 2-4 weeks

2. Fails Audit 3 (see penalty structure below)

During the Audit:

If a critical violation is found, a CookUnity team member will request an immediate corrective action be taken - this could involve anything from failing to cook poultry to 165 F to portioning food with cross contamination. If a corrective action is not taken, CookUnity may refuse delivery of the meals for that production day on the ground of health and safety standards. Chef-owners will not be compensated for meals when a critical violation corrective action is not taken. For all other violations, the CookUnity team member will not interfere with production, other than to ask clarifying or validating questions and document and record information.

CookUnity inspectors have been instructed to use relevant context and reasonable judgment when marking a team as non-compliant for any of the audit criteria points. As an example, if a chef team was unable to follow Item 21: Approved thawing or defrosting methods are used in the food facility (i.e. under running water for less than 2 hours, as part of cooking process or inside refrigerator) due to circumstances outside of their control (e.g. insufficient sink capacity for thawing or state of product received), these points would not count towards the overall grade.

Grading:

Each Chef team will be assigned a letter grade from A to C, based on a range of points (see sample audit with grading criteria below). A and B grades come with feedback and are considered a passing grade. C grades are considered a failure and come with a re-inspection within a seven (7) day period. If a team fails the re-inspection, the penalty structure below will come into effect.