We are delighted to have been featured in DeliverRank Food Safe System 2021: The App that Automates Food Safety Neil Bradley, founder and CEO of Food Safe System, knows a thing or two about food safety, having been both a chef and a restaurateur. Here he explains more about the complexity of the issue and how his app can reduce it to a walk in the park. What does Food Safe System offer, in a [...]
Upcoming changes to allergen labelling laws – known as Natasha's Law, means that any food business selling PPDS foods will have to include full ingredients on the product label with allergenic ingredients emphasised within that list. It is estimated that almost 1 in 5 people in the UK suffer from an allergy. What is Natasha's Law? Upcoming changes to allergen labelling laws – known as Natasha's Law, means that any food business selling PPDS [...]
What is a Ghost Kitchen? Want to be a restaurant owner? Ghost Kitchen is the answer. So you want to open a restaurant? Are you in love with the idea of owning a fast-food restaurant and passionate about the food industry? But what's stopping you from turning this dream into reality? Investment, experience, risks, kitchen nightmares, bureaucracy? Well, the advent of technology has made this simpler. Heard the buzz around Ghost Kitchens? Now is the [...]
How Food Safe System is helping the Pembroke Hotel in Kilkenny The Pembroke Hotel, Kilkenny, Ireland During a major refit of the hotel, the Pembroke Hotel decided that it was a good time to look at taking all of its operations paperless, including the kitchen. The hotel had put itself at the forefront of the adoption of cutting edge technologies to enhance customer comfort and staff efficiency. The kitchen team pointed to the procedural [...]
Stay up to date with all the latest Food Safety regulations with this free online food safety training offered by the FSA The Food Standards Agency UK has launched a range of free online food safety training courses. View Online food safety training as PDF(Opens in a new window) We have free online food safety courses available to help you and your business comply with food hygiene and food standards. Our e-learning courses include: Allergen training(Opens in a new window) [...]
A checklist to support food businesses to reopen safely during COVID-19 after a period of inaction. Planning and preparation for start-up Site checks Equipment checks Ingredient and product checks Social distancing measures Reopening your food business after a period of closure will require some extra checks alongside your ‘normal’ daily opening checks. These will help to make sure that your business can restart safely. You will need to maintain your basic hygiene standards and recognise the areas where greater attention will be required. [...]
Having a commercial kitchen cleaning checklist is useful because it helps you stay organised and keep on top of food safety guidelines. When it comes to running a commercial kitchen, cleanliness is a top priority. Your customers not only appreciate a clean kitchen, but the law requires it. Whether you run a small restaurant, residential home, large hotel or global fast-food chains, all kitchens must follow food service and health regulations. So what's essential to keep your kitchen [...]
Consumer concern over food safety highlights potential for digital assurance A recent study of consumers’ food safety concerns shows that there is a gap between consumers perceived food safety and the reality of food safety. It has been shown that companies who can demonstrate that they take food safety seriously can close the trust gap. The survey highlights: Food safety is the primary concern for consumers: 85% trust branded products, 80% non-packaged products and 69% packaged unbranded products. [...]
Why your Environmental Health Officer wants you to go digital As a good business, under European legislation, you are legally required to have in place a documented food safety, or HACCP policy.While the vast majority of establishments just print off and use the standard pages from the Food Standards Agency website, it is entirely up to the business itself as to what method they use as long as they can show a completed and reliable record of food safety [...]
What is HACCP? Hazard analysis and critical control points, or HACCP (/ˈhæsʌp/), is a systematic preventive approach to food safety from biological, chemical, and physical hazards in production processes that can cause the finished product to be unsafe and designs measures to reduce these risks to a safe level. Simply, HACCP is a way of managing food safety hazards. Food safety management procedures should be based on HACCP principles. HACCP involves looking closely at [...]
