We’ve worked in the food industry for over 10 years. Visiting restaurants we’ve witnessed many businesses fail with food hygiene and realised there was a need for a Digital food hygiene system to make life easier. The food hygiene guideline are very complicated but GuardStar tablet digital hygiene system makes everything easy and means the road to attaining and retaining a Five Star environmental health food hygiene rating is simple. Environmental Health visits are one of the biggest worries of every hospitality business owner, with GuardStar they become a simple routine event.
Here are the top Five Food Hygiene failures we see at restaurants and Cafes around the UK:
- Not filling out a Safer Food Better Food Diary with opening and closing checks and temperature logs.
- Filling out the diary once a week, so when the inspector visits its empty for the week
- Not date labelling food items
- Staff with no training
- Using the wrong equipment and sprays
Businesses achieving a five-star food hygiene rating often use it as a valuable marketing tool to attract customers, whereas a poor rating can be catastrophic. Bad practices and poor hygiene can ruin a hospitality business overnight, killing its reputation. Some restaurants get a bad food hygiene rating because they find the Safer Food Better Business (SFBB) on the Food Standards Agency website too complicated. Others give it as a job for their Head Chef to do and he might fill in the forms once a week or forget. With the GuardStar system we provide a system where owners can track what’s going on and make sure everything is completed.
Please contact us if you’d like to install the GuardStar Digital food hygiene system and help to make running your food business that little bit easier.