ServSafe vs. Prometric vs. other food manager exams

Three credentials dominate US food manager certification:

• ServSafe Food Protection Manager (National Restaurant Association) — the one most chains and most states recognise.

• Prometric Food Protection Manager Certification — ANSI-accredited, common in grocery and manufacturing.

• 360training / StateFoodSafety / Learn2Serve — state-approved courses that feed into one of the accredited exams.

They are not interchangeable for the provider’s own course, but the content overlap is large: FDA Food Code, time and temperature control, cross-contamination, cleaning and sanitising, and a management-systems domain.

Before you buy anything, check which credential your state or county health department accepts, and whether your employer reimburses a specific one.

Domain-level practice material that maps to any of the three: FoodSafe Prep.