I think its being made better.
Long before I became food safety auditor I worked for a 3 brand hotel company, 2 of the brands were handled on an unannounced basis and one by charter was always announced.
Both of 2 brands that got unannounced sudits were almost always "audit ready" and the ones that were not, well they failed, etc.
I don't think anyone should have to get ready for an audit. A facility should always be ready and considering that most gfsi schemes require a backup there is then no reason to worry about being called in.
We are starting up a food company now and actually look forward to unannounced audits. I wish there was no notice whatsoever for any facility.
Have not experienced anyone quiting due to an unannounced audit.
Friend of mine read my comments and said - yeah, but don't you remember the front desk manager in Vermont???
Oh yeah I sure do now!
What happened was I was running a route of unannounced audits in New England and 9am in the morning I walk into a Howard Johnson Lodge and as custom, I put my card down on the desk in front of the person working there and annouce who I was, my title and then asked to see the manager on duty.
The guy (Tom) behind the counter looked at me and started screaming - it's too much! it's too much that they ask of us, please go away, please not today, you don't have soul do you?!!!!
There was lots of screaming on Tom's part and then before I could even say (that I was going to go and get a cup of coffee and come back in an hour) I could say anything he throws down his set of keys and says I quit MF'er, you f'ing do your own f'ing inspection.
So, Tom picks up the phone, calls the owner and quits his job.
After Tom walked out the front door, I talked with the owner who said - I see that you met Tom!!!
He said that he had wanted to fire Tom and this was just perfect!
The owner came in and we did the inspection, it was actually a pretty nice property and then Tom came back and asked for his job back.
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