We hear it from restaurants every single day: Inventory, Labor, and Repair costs are rising. Using manual practices to monitor your fridges and freezers creates inefficiencies and increases costs as equipment issues can go undetected. You’re also dealing with food inventory losses, unexpected downtime, insurance costs, staff training costs, annual maintenance costs, and erroneous temperature logs – the total cost across your business adds up fast.
Typically, solutions used for such monitoring are –

• Manual data-entry methods such as Pen and paper and Cloud-based data-entry mobile apps: Time-consuming, error-prone, and susceptible to manipulation.
• Multi-unit restaurant leaders spend time and money on supervising such manual data-entry methods.
• Standard Operating procedures and training the staff – These need to be re-iterated amidst high staff turnover rates.
• Insurance coverage that offers financial protection, but does not help to prevent equipment/compliance issues from happening.
• Annual maintenance contracts can not offer complete solution as equipment issues may arise in between maintenance cycles.

Stratosfy solves this problem by empowering multi-unit restaurant leaders to remotely monitor equipment operations through sensors and software. Instead of manual data entry, Stratosfy provides IoT sensor-based automated data collection from restaurant locations where operations happen. By harnessing the data collected, Stratosfy’s platform improves the efficiency of operations leaders by reducing the cycles spent on continuously monitoring restaurant equipment operations.

For the average multi-unit restaurant organization, Stratosfy reduces the total cost of Operations(food costs, repair costs, downtime costs and labor costs to take temperature logs) on average by 10-12%.