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Inside Food Safety Ep. 3 | A $20,000 Alert: How One Notification Saved a Restaurant

Jun 27, 2026 · 26m

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What happens when a single notification prevents thousands of dollars in product loss? In Episode 3 of Inside Food Safety , we're on location at The Tampa Club with Executive Chef Thomas Mandzik and Eric Moore from Testo North America to discuss a real incident that occurred just one week after a new automated temperature monitoring system was installed. While away from the restaurant, Chef Thomas received an alert that a walk-in cooler wasn't operating normally. What initially appeared to be a minor issue turned out to be a refrigerant leak that could have resulted in the loss of nearly $20,000 in inventory before anyone returned to work. The conversation expands beyond that story to…