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Food safety and QA

Food safety and quality assurance software for every shift

MaintainIQ is food safety and quality assurance software that puts your daily checks, temperature logs, audits and food safety plan in one app. Your team does the work on their phones, every record carries a name and a time, and you can see what got done, and what did not, at every location.

  • Unlimited users per location
  • iPhone, iPad, Android and web
  • English and Spanish

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Daily checks

Daily food safety checklists that get done on time

Opening checks, line checks, sanitizer buckets, handwashing sinks and closing checks all run as checklists with a due time. Each location shows whether today's list is done, when it was last completed and who submitted it, so "I thought the closer did it" stops being an answer. Start from more than 50 ready templates built around common rules such as the FDA Food Code.

  • Yes/No, checkbox, temperature, number, note or signature items, due by a set time, hourly or as needed
  • One checklist shared by every location
  • Photos as proof on checklist items and audits
  • Line checks for food quality, not only food safety
See digital checklists

Temperatures

Temperature logs with a name and a time on every reading

Cold holding, hot holding and cooling checks run as temp logs. With a supported Bluetooth probe, each reading is captured and time-stamped in the app. A reading that fails becomes a follow-up task instead of a line on a sheet that nobody looks at until the inspector does.

  • Works with Cooper-Atkins/Copeland Bluetooth probes
  • Built around your food code, such as 41°F or below for cold holding
  • Works with no signal, even in the walk-in, and syncs later
See digital temp checks

Temperature probes

Compatible with Cooper-Atkins (Copeland) Bluetooth probes

Pair a supported handheld Bluetooth probe with the phone or tablet, and each reading is recorded in the temperature log with who took it and when.

Available from most online sellers.

Audits

Audits that score each location

Quality assurance means checking the checks. Area managers and QA leads run audits in sections, like Kitchen or Front of House, and each one ends in a percentage score and a letter grade. For every location you see the last auditor, the date and the score. For walkthroughs and mock health inspections, see inspection software.

  • Food safety audits and brand standards audits in the same app
  • Export all audit scores to compare locations
See internal audit software

Follow up

Every failed item gets an owner and a due date

A failed checklist or audit item becomes a follow-up task with a status and a due date. On each audit you choose whether follow-ups are optional or required. Daily emails tell owners and area managers what was done yesterday and what is still open.

  • Statuses of needs attention, in progress and closed
  • Daily detailed, daily summary and follow-up task summary emails

Records

Your food safety plan and inspection history in one place

Keep your food safety plan, HACCP documents, training files and spec sheets in the document library, in folders your team can find. Share a folder with every location or limit it to one. The Compliance tab on the Home screen shows each location's last health inspection date, status and score.

  • Folders for the food safety plan, training and equipment manuals
  • Last health inspection for every location on one screen
See compliance software

Why switch

A food safety binder compared with MaintainIQ

ItemA paper binderMaintainIQ
Knowing today's checks were doneFlip through the binder at each locationStatus and last completed for every location
Knowing who did themInitials, if someone rememberedThe name of the person who submitted it
A bad temperature readingWritten down and often forgottenA follow-up task with a due date
Audit results across locationsForms and spreadsheets in different placesLast auditor, date and score per location
Finding the food safety planIn the office, if it is up to dateIn the document library

Straight answer

What our food safety and quality assurance software does not do

MaintainIQ does not write your HACCP plan or track inventory. It makes sure the checks in your plan get done, get recorded with a name and a time, and get followed up when something fails.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Another question? Call (888) 534-0261 or ask in your demo.

What is food safety and quality assurance software?

It is software that runs the daily work of a food safety program. Checklists, temperature logs, audits and follow-up on problems happen in an app instead of on paper, so every record has a name and a time, and managers can see which locations are on track and which need help.

Is MaintainIQ HACCP software?

MaintainIQ does not build a HACCP plan for you. It is where your team does and records the monitoring your plan calls for, like cooling and hot holding temperatures, and where you keep the plan itself in the document library. Our guide to HACCP for restaurants covers the basics.

What is the difference between food safety and quality assurance?

Food safety is about keeping food from making people sick, for example holding cold food at 41°F or below. Quality assurance is about serving the same product the same way every time, like portion sizes and how a plate looks. Most operators check both in the same line checks and audits.

Does MaintainIQ work for a single restaurant?

Yes. MaintainIQ is priced per location with unlimited users, so a single restaurant or store gets the same food safety checklists, temp logs and audits as a group with dozens of locations. Every cook and shift lead can have a login without raising the bill. See pricing.

Can I see food safety for all my locations at once?

Yes. The Home dashboard shows each location's food safety checks, daily tasks, maintenance and work orders, and the Compliance tab shows each location's last health inspection. A group filter narrows it to one region or brand, and daily summary emails put every location's scores in one email.

Is the app available in Spanish?

Yes. Each person can use MaintainIQ in English or Spanish, and in Spanish your own checklist items show in Spanish too, not only the app screens. It runs on iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, and the web, so a cook can use the kitchen tablet while the owner checks from a phone.

Ready when you are

See your food safety program in one app

In a 15-minute demo we will show you how your checklists, temp logs, audits and follow-up tasks would run at your locations.

  • iPhone, iPad, Android and web
  • English and Spanish
  • Unlimited users per location

Prefer to talk? Call (888) 534-0261. US-based support.

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