SUMMARY
Bandung is one of the beautiful cities which is promoted for tourism. Therefore, it should be supported with good facilities including healthy food establishments. A study on sanitation system of food service has been conducted and the objective of this study is to get the information on the condition of restaurant sanitation, the awareness, skill and knowledge of the managers, food handlers and also to know the sanitation system of food service in the restaurants in Bandung. Samples were taken from 90 authorized restaurants. Questionnaires were used for interviewing the managers, and food handlers of the restaurants. Samples of water and food, swab of food facilities, swab of rectum and food handlers hand were taken from 30 restaurants. The result showed that the sanitation system of food in the restaurants were fair although the effort to meet the standard were not optimum. The quality of water should be improved because 48.5% of water supply in the restaurants did not meet the standard. The awareness and knowledge of the managers and food handlers of the restaurants was fair although their action did not always conform with the knowledge. The bactériologie test showed Salmonella. sp negative in the fresh meat samples, and 10% of cooked meat samples contained E. coli.