Video: Breakroom Refrigerator Cleaning Tip

SAN FRANCISCO — Host, Sarah Rutan: One challenge in any office or workspace is keeping the breakroom refrigerator clean. Today we’re in San Francisco with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Cori Chipman of Cappstone, Inc. to learn a helpful strategy.

Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Cori Chipman: Okay, a hot spot in most offices is always the breakroom refrigerator. When it gets neglected, there’s always a smell that happens. There’s stuff that gets left in there. There’s a science project that starts growing. So, what we recommend is weekly refrigerator cleanings, depending on the size of your office or how many people are using it. But weekly or monthly is usually good.

Now, the problem is you don’t want to throw away something that isn’t supposed to get thrown away. And you don’t want to forget something that needs to be thrown away. So, our tip on this is: Every Friday, or whatever day you choose, ask everyone in your office to put anything that they want to keep into a designated bin. And then when janitorial staff gets there, they take the bin out. And they can clean the entire refrigerator out and sanitize it, throw away the science projects, and then replace the bin. And that way, no one’s special leftovers or grandma’s Tupperware, or whatever that was important, doesn’t get thrown away accidentally.

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