Food Safety Knowledge: A Determinant of Sanitation Conditions in Local Restaurants

This research aimed to explore the influence of food safety knowledge employee hygiene management on food safety practices among local restaurant employees. This study was steered to focus on whether employee hygiene management contributed to increasing food safety practices among the local restaurants. There were 105 employees in five (5) different local restaurants in Santo Tomas who were chosen through convenient sampling. Two (2) research tools were adapted for this research. These were purposefully selected and modified to align with the study’s objectives. This research study would utilize a quantitative research design incorporating both descriptive and correlational methods. The study reveals that there was moderate correlation between food safety knowledge and sanitation condition in local restaurants. The result shows that there is a significant relationship between food safety knowledge and sanitation condition. Therefore, this brought attention to the fact that owners, employees, customers, and future researchers are determined to value the importance of food safety knowledge to maintain food safety practices in local restaurants. Thus, future researchers should focus to investigate the effectiveness of maintaining the food properly by the food handlers. However, future researchers can add information to the body of knowledge.