Restaurants: Digital Tools Will Improve Your Safety, Quality, Accuracy and Efficiency

Suppose your restaurant had a norovirus outbreak and the health department needed to see your inspection forms from a specific time period.  If you’re still using pen and paper record-keeping systems, could you immediately locate and provide the correct paperwork? Would you be able to access specific files in a towering pile of paperwork or an overstuffed file cabinet?

Low tech paper systems can put restaurants at higher risk for a variety of problems: foodborne illnesses, norovirus, Hepatitis A outbreaks, excessive food waste and human error.

What about safety inspections?  Are you confident that your employees are doing safety and quality inspections accurately – or at all?  Is there a chance that your team is faking their answers on important safety checks because they’re too busy (or too lazy) to do the actual work?  This happens often in restaurants, and is obviously a huge risk for restaurants and their guests.  If employees say they checked the temperatures of the…