How Restaurants Are Using GoFormz to Improve Their Food Safety Processes
Enhance your food safety procedures with these GoFormz tips and tricks
In the ever-evolving landscape of the food industry, ensuring food safety has become a paramount concern for both restaurateurs and consumers alike. Establishing a robust food safety culture is not only essential for meeting regulatory requirements but also for building trust with customers.
In this digital age, restaurants are turning to innovative solutions, like digital forms, to bolster their food safety practices – which are revolutionizing the way restaurants run their businesses. These digital tools are streamlining processes, enhancing transparency, and empowering staff to proactively address food safety concerns all in real time. Here’s how restaurants are leveraging digital forms to cultivate stronger food safety processes with GoFormz:
Restaurant Use Cases
Restaurants can utilize digital forms in a variety of ways to enhance their operations and improve food safety processes. Here are a few key ways in which digital forms can be incorporated into daily procedures at restaurants:
Food Safety Inspections: Health and safety inspectors or internal staff can use tablets or smartphones to complete checklists, record observations, and instantly submit inspection reports. This method of digital data collection streamlines the inspection process, reduces errors, and ensures prompt corrective actions if needed.
Temperature Checks: Restaurants can use digital forms to record and monitor temperature data for refrigerators, freezers, and food preparation areas. Automated Workflows can be set up to notify staff when temperature thresholds are breached, helping prevent food spoilage and contamination.
Supplier Audits: When assessing the food quality and safety standards of suppliers, restaurants can create digital forms to record audit results. This ensures consistency in evaluations, simplifies data analysis, and enables faster decision-making regarding supplier relationships.
Incident Reporting: Restaurants can implement digital incident reporting forms to record and investigate food safety incidents or customer complaints. These forms can capture essential details, such as date, time, location, and descriptions of incidents, making it easier to identify trends and prevent future occurrences.
Training and Certifications: Digital forms can be used to track and document employee training and certifications in food safety. This ensures that all staff members are up-to-date on food safety protocols, and it simplifies compliance reporting during health inspections.
Inventory Management: Digital forms can help manage food inventory by tracking the expiration dates of perishable items. The GoFormz Reporting Tool can be used to set up scheduled reports to notify staff when items are approaching their expiration dates, reducing food waste and ensuring that FIFO standards are followed.
Customer Feedback: Digital customer feedback forms can be made available to customers, allowing them to report any food safety concerns or feedback directly to the restaurant. This enables proactive responses and demonstrates a commitment to food safety.
Food and Beverage Customer Use Cases
Explore three distinct ways in which other food and beverage businesses are currently leveraging the GoFormz platform to improve food safety processes:
Food Processing: Pacific Seafood relied heavily on paper forms to gather data, requiring their team to manually input collected information into Word and Excel spreadsheets for subsequent reporting and analysis. This process resulted in frequent issues, including damaged or wet forms, limited access to food quality data, and an inefficient record-keeping system that hindered auditing procedures. They turned to GoFormz to digitize their food compliance forms, SSOPs, and HACCP documentation, and now have access to highly precise, real-time data, leading to efficient processing and enhanced reporting capabilities.
Fast-Food Management: Muller Management, a McDonald’s franchise, needed a digital form solution to replace their traditional paper forms and Excel spreadsheets. They implemented GoFormz to enhance their food and beverage management operations including health inspections, customer experience forms, audits, and much more.
Coffee Equipment Manufacturer: Jaguar Coffee needed a digital data capture platform to record information faster, and to provide the flexibility needed to frequently update their collection of equipment manufacturing forms. They turned to GoFormz to digitize their manufacturing and inspection forms, allowing their team to increase transparency, accountability and efficiency, through seamless automations and real-time access to completed forms.
Whether you require digital forms to improve restaurant inventory management or are looking to streamline data collection with automations, GoFormz is your one-stop-shop for all your food and beverage operation data collection demands. Sign up now for a risk-free 14-day trial and get started with your digital transformation today!
