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Temperature monitoring and digital checklists improve more than just food safety and compliance; they also benefit the business side of any restaurant. That can include positive impacts on the operations, productivity, and bottom-line financials of your restaurant in ways you might not ordinarily consider.
How to Keep Food Safe with Automated Temperature Monitoring
Every year, an estimated 48 million people in the United States come down with food poisoning. Nearly 130,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die, according to the CDC.1 At least some of those incidents result from poor restaurant food safety, and many could have been prevented by automated temperature monitoring.
The Showdown: Manual vs. Automated Temperature Monitoring
When it comes to restaurant food safety, automated temperature monitoring solves many of the problems associated with manual inspections—inefficiency, inaccuracy, spotty reporting, and lack of real-time data. Here’s what you get when you compare old-fashioned manual reporting with state-of-the-art automated systems.
4 Ways Temperature Monitoring Prevents Food Safety Problems
Five Guys – a Virginia-based restaurant chain famous for its fantastic handcrafted burgers and fries – takes food safety seriously. In an RFID Journal interview last year, Five Guys’ VP of Food Safety and Quality Assurance, Jim Gibson, describes how the chain decided to get ahead of the curve on temperature safety. He outlines a comprehensive program that includes third-party audits, automated…
