Dishwasher, Acidity, Vacuum Packing and Sous Vide Logs

Some kitchens use equipment or methods that need their own records: a commercial dishwasher, acidified food such as sushi rice, vacuum packing or sous vide cooking. Café QR has a log for each. They're off until a manager switches them on, and staff only see the ones your site uses. You need the Food safety add-on.

Switch them on

Open Food safety > Set up and scroll to Specialist logs. Tick the logs your site uses, then:

• Dishwasher final rinse: leave it blank to use 82°C, or type the figure from your machine's manual.
• pH targets: one product per line, with the highest safe pH from your food safety plan, for example sushi rice = 4.2.
• Check times (optional): type the times each log should be done, for example 09:00, 15:00. Once a time has passed with nothing logged, the check shows on the to-do list, and it shows as overdue 30 minutes later.

If you have more than one site, pick the site first. Press Save specialist logs.

Log a check

Press Log something on Food safety > Today and pick the log, on the dashboard, the till, a tablet or a linked staff phone. Pick the log at the top. As you type, Café QR checks the answer and shows All fine in green, or the reason in red.

• Dishwasher: the final rinse temperature, or tick that it ran a chemical sanitising cycle. A rinse below your figure fails.
• Food acidity: pick the product and type the pH. A reading above its target fails.
• Vacuum packing: what was packed, the date packed, the use-by, how it's stored and whether it's labelled. Food that isn't labelled fails. A chilled use-by more than 10 days after packing shows a warning to check your food safety plan.
• Sous vide: what was cooked, the water bath and core temperatures, and how many minutes the core was held there. The core must reach 60°C and be held long enough: for example 45 minutes at 60°C, 10 minutes at 65°C or 2 minutes at 70°C.

When a check fails

As with fridge readings, Café QR asks what you did about it before it saves. If you can't fix it straight away and your café has safety alerts, press Can't fix now, tell the manager. It saves with no fix and your manager is told. It stays on the to-do list until someone adds the fix.

You can log these checks without internet too. They send themselves when you're back online.

Reminders and the inspection report

If a log you've switched on has had nothing recorded for a week, it shows on the Food safety to-do list. The inspection report has a section for each log your site uses, with every check, the result, who did it and what was done about any fail.