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The catering sectors rely heavily on the management of the environment in which food is stored. The objective is to reduce the spoilage and to increase the ‘freshness’ of the products to the consumer.
A regency villa attracts up to 250,000 people every year and many visit simply to enjoy lunch in the award-winning Tea Room, which is open for business almost the entire year.
The Challenge
The Catering Manager must control costs and at the same time maintain the highest standards of hygiene to ensure the business is not adversely affected by inadequate food safety controls.
With 18 refrigerators, chillers, and freezers staff can spend about two hours every day taking regular temperature probes of chilled food, and entering that data into a log book. The whole process is time consuming and expensive. Legislation guidelines stipulate that fridge and freezer temperatures need to be properly recorded every 2 hours to an accuracy of 0.5 ºC.
The brief was to free-up staff time so that they could get on with selling and cooking while still having an accurate and record of temperatures that complied with the legislation.
How we were able to help
Utilising an Icespy System5 wireless monitoring and logging system, temperature data is sent by a SCOUT automatically by radio transmission from each refrigeration unit to a BASE unit positioned at a central point on the site.
Automated 1 minute, 10 minute and hourly readings, not only beats all legislative guidelines, but also frees up staff. An added advantage is that they have been able to adjust thermostats and thereby decreasing energy consumption.
Daily temperature readings pre-warn when maintenance visits will be required, reducing the risk of fridge failure and food spoilage by enabling the user to anticipate when to call out the engineer, and well in advance of a problem reaching critical, or total breakdown conditions. More importantly, IceSpy System5 also sends an SMS alert to my mobile phone the moment a serious problem is detected.
IceSpy System5 really removes one of the biggest pressures facing the food catering industry. It allows the staff to concentrate on other parts of the business without the worry of neglecting a serious food safety control.
When the inspector calls the manager is able to show full and accurate temperature monitoring records, meeting and exceeding current industry guidelines. These reports give proof of due diligence, and would stand up in a court of law as proof of having done everything in our power to prevent a problem arising in the first place.
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