First Ask Customers What They Want. Then Build Your Product
That's how Christine Schindler turned a raw technology into a popular tool to make restaurants safer.
Christine Schindler was obsessed with handwashing way before COVID-19 came along.
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In 2017, as foodborne illness outbreaks were plaguing businesses like Chipotle and wreaking havoc on public health across the country, she understood how to solve the problem. “No one walks into a restaurant with a vial of E. coli,” says Schindler, a biomedical engineer. “Eighty-nine percent of foodborne illness outbreaks caused by restaurants are directly linked to poor handwashing practices.” She got to work on a solution, called PathSpot, that would utilize spectral imaging to detect illness-causing contaminants on a restaurant worker’s hands, all in a matter of seconds.
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