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Time as a Public Health Control, the 4 Hour and 6 Hour Rules Explained

Time as a Public Health Control, the 4 Hour and 6 Hour Rules Explained

Most of what is written about this online is a county health department PDF. Accurate, usually, but written for inspectors rather than for the person running a lunch service. Here is the operator version. What the rule actually permits, what has to be written down before you start, what has to be...

Xenia Alternatives, an Honest Look for Food Service Operators

Xenia Alternatives, an Honest Look for Food Service Operators

We build MaintainIQ, which competes directly with Xenia. Weigh what follows accordingly. Xenia also publishes an article about alternatives to us, so you can read both and decide who is being straighter with you. Our attempt at that is to source every price from the vendor's own live pricing page...

Per Location Pricing vs Per User Pricing, Which Costs Multi-Unit Operators Less

Per Location Pricing vs Per User Pricing, Which Costs Multi-Unit Operators Less

Two software vendors quote you. One says $79 per location per month. The other says $24 per seat per month. The second number is smaller, so it looks cheaper. It usually is not, and the reason is arithmetic you can do in about ninety seconds. This article does that arithmetic with real published...

Do You Need a CMMS or a Checklist App

Do You Need a CMMS or a Checklist App

This question comes up constantly, and almost nobody answers it, because most of the people writing about it sell one or the other. We sell something that does both, which is its own kind of bias, so here is the version with our thumb off the scale. There is a section below on when you should buy...

How Much Restaurant Checklist Software Costs in 2026

How Much Restaurant Checklist Software Costs in 2026

Search this question, and you mostly get articles about point-of-sale systems, which cost a completely different amount and solve a completely different problem. This is an attempt at the actual answer. We build MaintainIQ, one of the products listed below, so weigh this accordingly. Every figure...

How to Build a Preventive Maintenance Budget for Restaurants

How to Build a Preventive Maintenance Budget for Restaurants

Most restaurant maintenance budgets aren't built — they're discovered, one surprise invoice at a time. A fryer goes down in March, a walk-in compressor in July, a rooftop HVAC unit in the first heat wave of August. The bills arrive one at a time, each one handled as its own small emergency, and...