Knowledge of Safe Food Temperature among Restaurant Supervisors in Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Table 4

Association between the demographic profile and level of knowledge among restaurant supervisors.

Demographics	Safe temperature for cold food	Safe temperature for hot food	Range of temperature in which bacteria grow rapidly in food	Safe internal temperature to cook meat	Safe temperature for storing food in the refrigerator	Safe temperature for storing food in the freezer	Best method to check the safe cooking temperature	Time for which cooked food can be kept safely at room temperature before refrigeration
Age
21–30	0.40; 0.528	0.66; 0.416	6.36; 0.012	0.94; 0.331	0.04; 0.838	0.19; 0.660	2.98; 0.084	5.41; 0.020
31–40	1.25; 0.263	0.15; 0.695	1.73; 0.188	0.50; 0.481	1.50; 0.220	1.14; 0.285	6.05; 0.014	0.11; 0.738
41–50	0.18; 0.671	0.29; 0.592	0.53; 0.465	0.08; 0.780	4.68; 0.030	1.05; 0.306	1.83; 0.176	0.50; 0.479
Education level
Primary	0.60; 0.439	0.0001; 0.991	0.99; 0.319	2.43; 0.119	2.28; 0.131	3.81; 0.051	10.17; 0.001	3.13; 0.077
Secondary	1.86; 0.172	2.40; 0.121	0.31; 0.579	3.11; 0.078	9.32; 0.002	2.05; 0.152	6.53; 0.011	1.65; 0.199
High and above	3.28; 0.070	2.60; 0.108	0.0009; 0.975	0.97; 0.326	5.52; 0.019	0.18; 0.674	0.427; 0.513	0.13; 0.714
Working experience
≤5 years	3.77; 0.052	2.81; 0.094	0.83; 0.362	0.004; 0.951	3.16; 0.075	0.28; 0.595	3.05; 0.081	0.30; 0.584
Food safety training
No	0.20; 0.651	0.89; 0.344	0.57; 0.452	0.008; 0.927	0.31; 0.580	0.64; 0.425	0.01; 0.920	0.21; 0.645
Restaurant
Local	0.67; 0.678	1.43; 0.231	9.28; 0.002	1.56; 0.273	8.76; 0.005	18.77; 0.0001	36.67; 0.0001	31.27; 0.0001

value <0.05 is considered to be significant.