Applications in Food & Beverage Industries

Every industry will evolve to become a data-driven business, including the food and beverage sector. Daily management of the F&B industry involves ensuring employee attendance, sufficient ingredients, clean dining area and kitchen environment as well as functioning cooking appliances. The 313fm cloud platform’s inspection services can be used in the F&B industry to standardize inspections before and after the business starts operations and estimate ingredient availability with clear data results. In addition, it will promote transparent management in the F&B industry, laying the foundation for business expansion.

Here’s how the 313fm patrol and inspection cloud platform can be used for management planning in the F&B industry.

Daily inspection before the opening and closing of premises to ensure cleanliness and hygiene, proper preparation of ingredients and maintenance of kitchen equipment.
Daily stock-taking to ensure availability of ingredients.
Regular inspection of F&B outlets to ensure hygiene and maintenance of kitchen equipment and utensils.　
Maintenance and inspection of the outlet’s facilities to ensure smooth operations.

Setting a Proper Inspection Plan

Unlike property management, the inspection tasks and time required are standard in F&B outlets as they occupy smaller spaces. Thus, the required inspection locations can be separated into front of the house and kitchen based on the size of the food premises. Inspection tasks can also be divided into pre-opening and end-of-day checks, in addition to daily stock-taking.

1. End-of-day kitchen checks:

Only one inspection plan is needed for end-of-day checks since they take place once a day.

The checklist of this task, including a detailed description of duties, can be automatically generated through 313fm within the set time. Once the staff on duty has checked and given feedback on the plan’s inspection tasks, they can scan the NFC tag at the inspection checkpoint after performing end-of-day kitchen checks. The manager can check the details any time and take timely action when the need arises.

2. End-of-day Front of House checks:

Similar to end-of-day kitchen checks, only one inspection plan is needed for front of the house.

3. Pre-opening Inspection – Kitchen:

The pre-opening inspection is divided into morning and evening sessions, so there are two inspection plans under this checkpoint: Pre-opening Inspection – Kitchen (Morning) and pre-opening Inspection – Kitchen (Evening).

The checklist can be automatically generated each day according to the morning and evening inspection times, allowing staff to conduct a series of pre-opening checks on the restaurant’s kitchen.

4. Ingredient Inventory:

In addition, 313fm can also be used as the daily ingredient stock checking. Once the inspection checklist is generated each day, daily stock-taking of ingredients can be performed. This facilitates the timely procurement of ingredients ensures adequate supply.

Practicality of Each Inspection List

The platform will automatically generate the corresponding inspection operation instruction list, that is, the inspection list, according to the inspection time plan.

According to the “inspection executor” designated by the inspection task, the inspection list will be automatically dispatched to the task box of the their mobile app.

Following the instructions of the inspection list, the inspection executor scans the inspection point with the mobile app. The app will display the items that require inspection at the inspection point, and the executor will provide feedback on the inspection items.

Through the inspection list, we can follow-up and deal with the problems found during on-duty operations in a timely manner. It makes it convenient to understand the work of the inspection personnel. It also strengthens management of personnel and increase their work efficiency.

Using Work Orders in Emergencies

If during the course of inspection, or in the daily work of the store staff, it is found that the existing facilities have broken down and need to be repaired, or other services need to be followed up by relevant personnel, a work order can easily be created using a mobile phone.

After receiving this work order (which requires that the 313fm app is installed on their phone), the maintenance engineer or equipment contractor must go to the scene to scan the QR code or NPC tag. This will record their arrival time and is to be used as proof of work commencement. After completing their work, they can directly click complete on their phone. The enterprise management can easily print an analysis report, or the system automatically sends the analysis report in the form of an e-mail.

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