Notes from the pass.
Practical, plain-English writing on food safety, EHO inspections, allergens, rotas and running more than one site — from the team building Recordme. No scare tactics, no SEO sludge. Just the guides we wished existed.
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Food safetyNatasha's Law: getting PPDS allergen labels right
If you pack food before a customer orders it, it needs a full ingredient list with the 14 allergens emphasised. What counts as PPDS, what the label must say, and how to keep it true when the recipe changes.
Food safetyTemperature logs that actually hold up in an audit
A column of neat 3°Cs written at the end of the week convinces nobody. What makes a temperature record credible: timing, attribution, exceptions — and what you did when a fridge drifted out of range.
OperationsRunning one standard across every site
Your second site is where the wheels usually come off: the standard lives in the founder's head. How growing groups turn "how we do things" into checks, templates and dashboards that travel.
OperationsRota rules that actually bite: Working Time for hospitality
Rest breaks, the 48-hour average, night-work limits and under-18s — the Working Time rules venues trip over most, and how to catch a breach in the rota before you publish it, not after.
ComplianceSFBB or HACCP? What your venue actually needs
Safer Food, Better Business is HACCP — pre-packaged for small venues. When the FSA's pack is enough, when you've outgrown it, and how to keep either one alive as a daily habit instead of a shelf ornament.
ProductInside Recordme: how the evidence trail works
Every record in Recordme is attributed, time-stamped and sealed — so an inspector, an auditor or a future you can trust it. A short tour of the ledger underneath the app, in plain English.
Food safetyThe fridge died overnight. Here's the playbook.
You open up to a warm walk-in and a full prep list. What to check, what you can keep, what has to go, and how to record the whole thing so one bad compressor doesn't become a bad inspection.
ComplianceThe 28-day clock: handling a DSAR in a busy venue
An ex-employee emails "send me everything you hold on me" mid-service. UK GDPR gives you one calendar month. What counts as their data, where it hides in a venue, and how to respond without panic.
ProductWhy we're building one system, not five apps
A fridge breach is a temperature event, an incident, a corrective action and a line of audit evidence — in most venues that's four tools and three copy-pastes. Why we think the pile is the real problem.
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