Pizza chefs

Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Gazette

McCook Pizza Hut general manager Sara Rowe, right, teaches second grade teacher Matt Berry and students, from the left, Josilin Miller, Zaely Pace, Brody Lytle, Cooper Soundy and Lily Gans how to make pizzas, during an end-of-the-school-year field trip for all McCook Elementary second-graders Thursday afternoon. Sara told the students that since January, the restaurant’s dishwasher has washed 177,000 loads of dishes. They air-dry the dishes, she said, to prevent bacteria from growing between wet stacked dishes. A multiple-step method of proper hand washing, a freezer set at -5 degrees and a walk-in cooler maintained at 34-36 degrees also ensure food safety, she said. Sara told students she has three rules for visitors to the kitchen: Don’t touch the deep fryer, the food or the oven. Students were treated to the pizzas they made.