Category Archives: Food Safety

New SiteSage and Open Kitchen Offer Greater Functionality and More Control

It’s hard to believe, but we first introduced our platform to the commercial market a decade ago.  Since then, we’ve been working hard to continuously improve our solution, learn even more about the challenges our customers face with their businesses, and refine and further develop our system to meet those challenges head-on.  The beauty of […]

Innovating and Winning in the New Normal

In the hospitality industry, the customer experience is obviously critical.  Part of the customer experience in dine-in facilities is their physical comfort, and part of our SiteSage solution helps to ensure consistently comfortable restaurant temperatures through our enterprise-wide control and diagnostics of heating and cooling systems.    However, as restaurants rebuild their revenue streams in […]

Three Predictions for the New Normal

As restaurants and retailers begin reopening across the country, we have been reflecting on how our “new normal” in a pandemic-wary world will change the ways in which our food service and retail customers act.  For our typical users, who are focused on facilities maintenance, energy consumption, or food safety and product quality, three themes […]

Getting Ready to Re-open; What can be Done to Minimize Risks?

Restaurants are being allowed to re-open in many parts of the country, typically with some level of restriction that may vary widely from state to state.  In my home state of Massachusetts, one of the hardest hit by COVID-19, restaurants have been able to re-open as of last week – for outdoor dining only. Texas […]

Open Up the Possibilities — Introducing Open Kitchen by SiteSage

Last Friday marked an important day in the evolution of SiteSage. What began as a critical energy savings and facility maintenance optimization solution has become a must-have, on-premise food safety and connected equipment monitoring tool. When our customers compete in an increasingly crowded market, the right investments and forward-looking decisions can really make the difference in optimizing […]

Bluetooth > Clipboards

The Jetsons kitchen

In case you haven’t noticed, food service equipment is getting much closer to “The Jetsons”-esque technology. However, I was recently struck by a study in contrasts when I saw dangling from the side of a $10,000, top-of-the-line, rapid cook oven none other than a wood clipboard (that retails for under $2) holding a piece of […]

Food Safety: Major Theme in September

National Food Safety Month

Food Safety is a serious issue. An estimated 1 in 6 (48 million) Americans get sick from foodborne illness each year, resulting in roughly 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The issue has finally begun to get the attention it deserves, at both the government level and […]

Cultivating a Food Safety Culture in Your Restaurant

Restaurant Management

At MUFSO today, we attended an interesting presentation about an important topic for all restaurant organizations: safety. Customers and employees are the driving forces behind any successful restaurant so their safety and well-being is a top priority for restaurant managers. When a restaurant is identifying opportunities to keep its customers and employees safe, it doesn’t focus only […]