Hygiene, sanitation in food and beverage business and training factor in personal behaviour related to hygiene rules

This research has been aimed to determine the hygiene and sanitation conditions of food and beverage business and personnel hygiene behavior related to differences in educational status. The research has been done in the food and beverages business which have tourism establishment certificate in Ankara with 116 employees who have been working in this business and have accepted to participate in the research. In this research, screening model was applied and analysis of data were conducted in 2009.To achieve these objectives a questionnaire was used to collect the data. Each employee?s educational status and hygiene rules related behavior was determined. In this study, frequencies, mean, standard deviation and analysis of variance were used to evaluate the data.As a result of evaluations, it has been found that majority (45%) of the respondents? educational level were high school, 23,3 %were graduate student, 16,3% were college, 9,5% elementary school and 5,2% master degree/ doctor's degree.The results showed that there were significant differences between behavior related to hygiene rules like health and food hygiene and educational status. However, there weren?t significant differences between related to hygiene rules hand and body hygiene and equipment hygiene.Key words: Food and Beverage Businesses, Hygiene, Sanitation, Hygiene Rules, Education.