Food safety templates and guides
Free printable records for a restaurant, café, takeaway or food truck, and plain answers to the questions owners ask before an inspection. Every limit comes with its source.
Free printable templates
Fridge and freezer temperature log: free printable template
Four fridges or freezers, a line for every day of the month, opening and closing checks.
Cooking, reheating and hot holding log: free template
Core temperatures for cooking, reheating and hot holding on one sheet.
Cooling log: how to cool cooked food safely
Start and end times and temperatures for every batch you cool.
Delivery record sheet: checking goods in
Supplier, temperatures, dates and packaging for every delivery.
Kitchen cleaning schedule: free template for restaurants
A weekly schedule with the usual tasks filled in and space for your own.
The 14 allergens: list and allergen matrix template
The 14 allergens across the top, your dishes down the side.
How to check a probe thermometer (with a free log)
The iced water and boiling water test, and a sheet to record it.
Staff food safety training record
Induction, courses and refreshers for every member of staff.
Tools
Food safety limits by country, side by side
Fridges, freezers, cooking, cooling and deliveries in four countries, each value with its source.
How to get a 5 food hygiene rating
How the three scores add up, a calculator and what moves the rating.
Guides
Food safety temperatures in the UK: the cheat sheet
Every temperature a UK kitchen works with, on one page.
Which food safety records does a kitchen need, and can they be digital?
The records a small kitchen keeps, and what makes digital ones trustworthy.
Your first food hygiene inspection: a checklist
What to have ready before the first visit from the council.
Fridge temperature too high: what to do
Check, move the food, decide what to keep, fix the cause and write it down.
Food safety apps for small kitchens, compared
Paper, subscriptions and a one-time app: what each costs over three years and what to look for.
Or let Cheflog keep this record for you
Cheflog is a food safety app for the kitchen tablet. It reminds you what is due, takes the reading with big keys, asks for the corrective action when a value is out of range and keeps signed records an inspector can read. Try it free for 30 days, then pay once (€49.99), no subscription.
See how Cheflog worksThis page is general information, not legal advice. Limits in the templates are a starting point: check them against your own food safety plan and ask your local authority if you are unsure. Cheflog and Everlong are not connected to the Food Standards Agency, Food Standards Scotland or any other authority, and nothing here is approved by them.