Mumbai, Dec 01: The Hotel and Restaurant Association of Western India (HRAWI) in collaboration with the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) conducted its latest Food Safety Supervisory Training in Advance Catering (FoSTaC) programme on 26^th November 2022 in Goa. 36 hospitality professionals from W Hotel Goa participated in the training programme. Guest of Honour Mr Carl Costa – HRAWI Goa State Coordinator and Director of Fortune Miramar and Mr. Menino Proenca – Director of Resorte Marinha Dourada inaugurated the programme. From the team of W Goa, Mr Tanveer Kwatra – General Manager, Mr. John D’Souza – Director of Human Resources and Ms. Trisha Eduljee – Manager Training and HR hosted the training session. The training was conducted by Mr. Praveen Andrews with a focus on health and food handling practices for hospitality personnel.

“HRAWI is thankful to the hospitality establishments in Goa for proactively enrolling their personnel in the programme. We have made tremendous progress over the last few years with the programmes and the latest training programme too was a big success. The topics covered under FSSAI’s training programmes are a big value-add to all hospitality professionals. Prioritizing education in food safety and handling SOPs amongst hospitality professionals is an ongoing endeavour and we will continue to organize the programmes as often as we can,”

Mr Pradeep Shetty, President, HRAWI.

HRAWI has successfully trained and certified 2357 hospitality professionals all across India’s Western region in FoSTaC and FSSAI’s Management Training Program.

About Hotel & Restaurant Association Western India (HRAWI)

The Hotel and Restaurant Association (Western India) is a 72 years old Association of Hotels and Restaurants in Western India. Its members include various restaurants and smaller Hotels up to 5-Star Deluxe categories. The bulk of its members like any growth economy are made up of restaurants and budget hotels. With membership base spread across Western India, HRAWI covers Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa and the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, and is considered to be the voice of the Hotel Industry. The association is part of the national body of Federation of the Hotels & Restaurants Associations of India (FHRAI), located in New Delhi, which was originally founded in Mumbai in 1950 by the late Mr J.R.D. Tata. 

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