Why Restaurants Choose SFBB Pro: The Digital SFBB App Built for Busy Kitchens
Running a restaurant means managing food safety every single day. Opening checks, closing checks, fridge temperatures, probe checks, deliveries, cleaning schedules, allergens and staff records all need to be managed while your team is trying to run a busy kitchen.
SFBB Pro is a digital SFBB app designed specifically for restaurants, takeaways, cafés and other UK food businesses that want to make food safety management quicker and easier.
Instead of relying on paper SFBB diaries, SFBB Pro allows your team to complete checks from a phone or tablet, securely store records in the cloud and give managers greater visibility over what’s happening in their kitchen.
For larger teams and growing businesses, SFBB Pro also provides unlimited staff logins, multi-location management, automated reminders, advanced reporting and food date label printing.
Here’s why restaurants are choosing SFBB Pro.
What Is a Digital SFBB App?
SFBB stands for Safer Food, Better Business, the food safety management approach developed by the Food Standards Agency to help smaller food businesses manage food safety procedures.
Traditionally, businesses have maintained their SFBB records using paper diaries and printed forms.
A digital SFBB app takes many of these everyday food safety records and moves them onto your phone, tablet or computer.
With SFBB Pro, your kitchen can digitally manage:
- Opening and closing checks
- Fridge and freezer temperatures
- Probe temperature checks
- Delivery records
- Cleaning schedules
- Incidents and corrective actions
- Pest control records
- Oil disposal records
- Allergen information
- Food date labels
- Staff food safety records
Records are securely stored digitally, making them much easier to retrieve when managers or Environmental Health Officers need to see them.
Why Restaurants Choose SFBB Pro
A small kitchen and a busy restaurant with ten employees have very different requirements.
That’s why SFBB Pro isn’t simply a digital checklist.
It has been developed as a complete food safety management app for commercial kitchens, combining everyday food safety checks with staff accountability, reminders, reporting, allergen management and food date labelling.
Unlimited Staff Logins
One of the most useful SFBB Pro features for restaurants is unlimited staff logins.
Every member of your kitchen team can have their own login rather than everyone sharing one account.
That means chefs and kitchen employees can complete their own checks while managers can see who completed each check and when.
There is no need to purchase additional user licences as your kitchen team grows.
Whether you have 2 employees or 20, SFBB Pro makes it easy to give your kitchen team access to the system.
Multi-Location Dashboard for Restaurant Groups
If you operate more than one restaurant, managing separate food safety systems can quickly become complicated.
SFBB Pro provides multi-location food safety management through an owner’s dashboard.
Additional locations can be added to your account, allowing owners and managers to oversee multiple kitchens from one central system.
This makes SFBB Pro suitable for businesses expanding from their first restaurant to multiple locations, as well as established restaurant groups.
Instead of maintaining separate systems for every site, your food safety records can be organised within one platform.
Food Date Label App & Printer
SFBB Pro isn’t limited to food safety checklists.
It also includes a dedicated food date label app for commercial kitchens.
Businesses can set up their food categories and individual products, including the appropriate storage method and shelf life.
Kitchen employees can then select the food item from the SFBB Pro app and print the required label using the compatible SFBB Pro food date label printer.
Labels can display information including:
- Food or product name
- Use-by or discard date
- Time
- Storage information
- Employee who printed the label
This can dramatically reduce the amount of time kitchen teams spend handwriting food preparation and date labels.
For restaurants producing dozens of labels every day, having your food date labelling app and SFBB food safety system together can make everyday kitchen management considerably simpler.
Everything Your Kitchen Needs on Your Phone
Food safety paperwork shouldn’t take your chefs away from running the kitchen.
SFBB Pro allows employees to complete checks directly from an iPhone, Android phone or tablet.
Instead of writing temperatures on scraps of paper and transferring them into records later, checks can be recorded digitally where the work happens.
Your team can record:
- Opening checks
- Closing checks
- Fridge temperatures
- Freezer temperatures
- Cooking temperatures
- Probe checks
- Deliveries
- Cleaning
- Incidents
- Corrective actions
Everything is stored securely and can be retrieved when needed.
Automated Food Safety Reminders
Busy services mean checks can occasionally be forgotten.
SFBB Pro includes automated food safety reminders that help prompt your team when required checks haven’t been completed.
This reduces the need for managers to continually remind staff and helps businesses maintain more consistent food safety records.
EHO-Ready Food Safety Records
Being organised before an Environmental Health inspection can make the process much easier.
SFBB Pro is designed around the types of food safety checks and records used in UK commercial kitchens.
Rather than searching through folders and paper diaries, managers can quickly access their digital records and reports.
This includes records for:
- Temperature monitoring
- Probe checks
- Opening and closing procedures
- Cleaning
- Deliveries
- Incidents
- Corrective actions
- Pest control
Keeping clear, consistent records helps businesses demonstrate their food safety procedures during an EHO inspection.
Customisable Food Safety Checklists
Every kitchen operates slightly differently.
SFBB Pro provides ready-to-use food safety checks while also allowing businesses to create custom kitchen checklists appropriate to their own operation.
This means a restaurant, takeaway, school kitchen and mobile caterer don’t have to follow exactly the same workflow.
Your digital food safety system can better reflect how your own kitchen actually operates.
Allergen Management
SFBB Pro also includes digital allergen management.
Businesses can maintain an allergen matrix covering the 14 regulated allergens, helping teams organise important allergen information for dishes and products.
Allergen information can also be produced as a PDF when required.
This means another important part of your food safety management can be kept within the same system rather than relying on separate spreadsheets or paperwork.
Store Your Food Safety Records in the Cloud
Paper records can be lost, damaged or simply difficult to find.
SFBB Pro securely stores your records digitally, giving authorised users access when they need them.
This is particularly useful for restaurant owners and operations managers who aren’t physically present at every location each day.
With cloud-based food safety management, you can keep better visibility over your kitchen without needing to be standing in it.
Why Restaurants Are Moving Away From Paper SFBB Diaries
Paper SFBB records have been used successfully for years, but they come with obvious limitations.
A digital SFBB app can make everyday food safety management considerably easier.
SFBB Pro helps businesses:
- Reduce paperwork
- Complete checks from a phone or tablet
- Keep food safety records organised
- Reduce forgotten checks with automated reminders
- See which employee completed each check
- Give unlimited team members individual logins
- Manage multiple restaurant locations
- Maintain allergen information
- Retrieve records quickly for EHO inspections
- Print professional food date labels
Instead of using different systems for different kitchen tasks, SFBB Pro brings them together.
SFBB Pro for Restaurants, Takeaways, Cafés and Commercial Kitchens
Although SFBB Pro is particularly useful for busy restaurants, the system is suitable for many types of UK food businesses.
These include:
- Restaurants
- Takeaways
- Cafés
- Pubs
- Hotels
- Food vans
- Mobile caterers
- Market stalls
- Schools
- Universities
- Catering companies
- Multi-site restaurant groups
Whether you’re running one small kitchen or overseeing several locations, the system can scale alongside your business.
How Much Does SFBB Pro Cost?
SFBB Pro is designed to provide professional food safety management without charging businesses for every individual member of staff.
The subscription includes unlimited staff logins, meaning you can add your kitchen team without paying for individual user accounts.
A free 14-day trial is also available so businesses can test SFBB Pro in their own kitchen before committing.
For businesses operating multiple kitchens, additional locations can be added to create a centralised multi-location food safety management system.
What Makes a Good SFBB App for Restaurants?
When choosing the best SFBB app for your restaurant, don’t simply compare the monthly subscription price.
Consider how much of your everyday kitchen management the system can actually handle.
A good restaurant food safety app should provide:
- Digital SFBB records
- Opening and closing checks
- Fridge and freezer temperature records
- Probe checks
- Unlimited staff logins
- Individual employee accountability
- Automated reminders
- Custom checklists
- Allergen management
- EHO-ready reporting
- Cloud storage
- Multi-location management
- iPhone and Android access
- Food date labelling
- Food date label printer integration
The more of these functions you can manage from one platform, the less time your team needs to spend switching between paperwork, spreadsheets and different apps.
Is SFBB Pro the Right SFBB App for Your Restaurant?
If you simply want to replace your paper food safety diary, there are a number of digital options available.
But restaurants with multiple employees or locations often need considerably more than a basic digital checklist.
SFBB Pro combines digital SFBB records with unlimited staff logins, individual staff accountability, automated reminders, multi-location management, allergen management, advanced reporting and a dedicated food date label app.
For restaurants also looking to improve their food preparation labelling, the compatible SFBB Pro food date label printer brings food safety records and kitchen date labelling together in one system.
Whether you operate a single independent restaurant or multiple locations, SFBB Pro provides a modern way to manage food safety without the paperwork.
Start your free 14-day SFBB Pro trial today and see how much easier managing food safety can be.
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