Welcome to the latest news and information on the Kitchen OS flagship Food Safety Compliance software
Food Safe System
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Reopening checklist for food businesses during COVID-19
A review of your Food Safety Management System should be undertaken to identify risks. This should be recorded in your Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) plan, or your Safer food, better business pack (Safe catering in Northern Ireland)
Commercial Kitchen Cleaning Checklist
Having a commercial kitchen cleaning checklist is useful because it helps you stay organised and keep on top of food safety guidelines.
Chef Technology
Chef Technology Is technology moving people away from manual and skilled labour jobs? In many cases the answer is yes, so those who remain in these professions are increasingly sought after, meaning they can get paid more than they used to for doing the same...
Why your Environmental Health Officer wants you to go digital
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...
Your freezer has failed, now what?
For commercial kitchens a freezer breakdown can have severe consequences affecting both customer service and profits. Stock contained within the broken freezer must be assessed for safety and disposed of if unsafe to eat. But how can you tell what should...
What is HACCP
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...
Are your staff washing their hands?
Are your staff washing their hands? Your food business staff need to be washing their hands properly and frequently to maintain a healthy kitchen! Washing is important to help prevent harmful bacteria from spreading from peoples’ hands. All staff that work with...
Acrylamide and Food Safety
Acrylamide is a chemical that naturally forms in starchy food products during high-temperature cooking, including frying, baking, roasting and industrial processing, at +120°C and low moisture. The primary chemical process that causes this is the Maillard...
Food Safe System is Launching
Fancy an out-of-hours visit to the Belfast Apple store, exclusively for the Hospitality Industry? Belfast and Newry-based Food Safe System is launching its digital HACCP App at an exclusive event at Victoria Square’s Apple Store in Belfast City Centre on Monday, 8th...
The Restaurant Industry and New Apprenticeships.
It probably won't have escaped your attention that the restaurant industry is struggling, particularly when it comes to attracting and keeping staff, a situation that doesn't look likely to improve after Brexit. To address this issue of late, there has been a trend...