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Restaurant health inspection & food safety software

Walk into any inspection ready.

Lowboy is digital food safety software that builds your health-inspection readiness automatically from the line checks your crew already runs — temperature logs, cleaning, date-marking. It stores your permits and certificates with their expiry dates and sends alerts before anything lapses. No paper binder, no sensors to buy, no second system to run.

No sensors or hardware FDA Food Code baseline Certs tracked to expiry
Inspection readiness● Mostly ready
Walk-in temp logcurrent
Cleaning & sanitationcurrent
Date-markingcurrent
Hood-cleaning certexpires 12d
Sanitizer ppm logdue today

One glance at what's current, expiring, and due — before anyone else sees it.

Why inspection readiness breaks down

Almost every kitchen already does the work an inspector wants to see — temps get taken, surfaces get sanitized, product gets dated. The problem is never the work; it's the record. Logs live on a clipboard that walks off, the hood-cleaning certificate is in a drawer somewhere, and nobody knows the food-handler cards expired last month until the inspector asks. So the day before an inspection becomes a scramble to reconstruct weeks of paper.

Most food safety software adds another checklist to run on top of the kitchen's real work — a second system someone has to remember, often with sensors and an enterprise contract to match. Lowboy takes the opposite approach: your readiness is a by-product of the checks your crew is already doing.

So Lowboy quietly replaces:

How it works

One check, three faces.

A line check isn't copied into a separate inspection log — it is the inspection record. A cook runs the check on the line; the manager sees it on the board; inspection reads the very same result. Change a pass rule once and all three move together. Three ways Lowboy keeps the evidence:

Automatic reading

Pulled from the daily work

Temps, cleaning, date-marking and counts your crew already ticks on their checklists become the readiness trail automatically. Nothing re-entered.

Log

Checked on a cadence

Sanitizer ppm, cooling, calibration — the recurring readings an inspector wants, surfaced on the day they're due and recorded with a real temp/ppm value.

Document

Stored with a deadline

Snap a permit, hood-cleaning cert or food-handler card — Lowboy reads its name and expiry date, files it, and keeps it on hand, ready to show.

The process

How readiness builds itself.

Five steps, and only the first is ever a "setup" task. After that, your crew's normal work keeps the record current — here's exactly what happens.

LINE CHECK · SETUPmanager
Walk-in temp
Readingtemp° · pass ≤ 41°F
Feeds InspectionTemperature logtagged
OPENING CHECKLISTline · 5 of 5
Your crew runs it
Walk-in templogged on the line38°F
stamped to the cook · syncs to Inspection
INSPECTION READINESSlive
Readiness updates itself
Temperature loglatest run: today · 38°Fcurrent
Cleaning & sanitationlatest run: todaycurrent
SNAP · DOCUMENTreading…
Snap a certificate
reading name & expiry…
Hood-cleaning certificatefiled with expiryexp Mar 14
ALERTS2
Warned before it lapses
Hood cert expires in 12 daysrenew to stay ready
Sanitizer ppm logdue todaymissing

▸ Plays on its own · tap any step to jump

Features

Everything a health inspector asks for — in one app.

The digital food safety records that keep a kitchen inspection-ready: temperature logs, cleaning, date-marking, certificates and the alerts that keep them current. No clipboards, no sensors, no separate compliance app.

Inspection

Readiness · what an inspector checks

INSPECTION READINESS82% · mostly ready
Temperature logslatest run: today · 38°Fcurrent
Cleaning & sanitationrun today · date-marking currentcurrent
Hood-cleaning certificateon file · expiry trackedexpires 12d
Sanitizer ppm logrecurring · not done yetdue today

One live view — what's current, expiring, and missing. Open it any day, not just inspection morning.

Logs · recurring readings on a cadence

LOGShistory kept
Sanitizer ppmdaily · logged today200 ppm
Cooling logper batch · 2 recorded todayin range
Thermometer calibrationweekly · last done Mondue Fri

Every reading is kept with who logged it and when — tap any log for its full history, so a missed day shows as a gap.

Documents · certificates filed with expiry

DOCUMENTSfiled & readable
Operating permitexp Aug 2027current
Food-handler cards3 files · each own expiry3 files
Hood-cleaning certificateexp Mar 14expires 12d

Snap to file — Lowboy reads the name and expiry; every document opens to read, ready to hand the inspector.

Alerts · before the inspector, not after

ALERTS2 new
Hood cert expires in 12 daysin-app + email · renew in time
Sanitizer ppm log due todayrecurring reading missedmissing
Weekly digestwhat was missed this weeksent

In-app for everything; email for hard-deadline certs; a weekly digest of anything missed. Owner & manager only.

▸ A live look at the app · tap a tab to explore

◍ The part no one else does

It stores what matters — and tells you before it lapses.

This is the difference. Lowboy doesn't just hold your records; it watches their clock. Every permit and certificate carries its expiry; every recurring log knows its cadence. When a cert is 30, 14 or 7 days from expiring — or a required log hasn't been done — Lowboy notifies you, so it's handled on your schedule, not discovered on the inspector's. You always know what's current, what's expiring, and what's missing, at a glance.

  • Expiry tracking on every cert — hood cleaning, permits, food-handler cards, equipment calibration.
  • Proactive alerts before anything lapses, so there's time to renew or re-run it.
  • A single readiness view — current / expiring / missing — you can open any day, not just before an inspection.

Set it up once, then just run your kitchen

  1. Tag the checks that matter

    Mark which line checks satisfy a health-code area — temp logs, sanitation, cooling, date-marking — once, when you build the routine.
  2. Your crew runs them as normal

    Cooks log temps and complete cleaning checks in the line-cook app like any other task — no extra inspection step.
  3. Readiness builds itself

    Each completed check feeds the matching requirement; snapped certs file with their expiry. Lowboy keeps the whole picture current and warns you before anything slips.
An honest note on compliance. Lowboy keeps your food-safety records organized, current and complete, and flags what's expiring or missing — so you walk in prepared. It is not a compliance guarantee and doesn't certify readiness: health-code requirements vary by jurisdiction, and the inspection is still the inspector's call. Lowboy stores your records; you keep your plan and your local requirements. We'd rather be straight with you than promise a passing grade no software can.
FAQ

Common questions

Does Lowboy replace my HACCP plan? +
No. Lowboy is where your food-safety records live and stay current — temperature logs, cleaning, date-marking, permits and certificates. It keeps and organizes the evidence an inspector asks for; it doesn't write your HACCP plan or certify compliance. You keep your plan and your jurisdiction's exact requirements.
Where do the temperature and cleaning logs come from? +
From the line checks your crew already runs in the Lowboy app. When a cook logs a walk-in temp or completes a cleaning check, that record automatically becomes part of your inspection readiness — there's no separate log to keep and nothing to re-enter.
Does it track permits and certificates that expire? +
Yes. Snap a permit, hood-cleaning certificate, food-handler card or calibration record and Lowboy stores it with its expiry date, then notifies you before it lapses — so nothing is found expired during an inspection.
Does Lowboy guarantee I pass my inspection? +
No tool honestly can. Lowboy keeps your records organized and current and flags what's missing or expiring, so you walk in prepared — but requirements vary by jurisdiction and the result is still the inspector's call. Lowboy stores your records; it doesn't certify readiness.
Is this a separate product, or part of Lowboy? +
It's part of Lowboy, included in the one flat price. The same line checks that build your inspection readiness also run your daily kitchen ops, and the same snaps that file your certs also keep your food cost current. One system, no add-on.

Stop reconstructing the binder the night before.

Run the free audit to see Lowboy on your kitchen, then let your line checks build an inspection record that's always ready — with every cert tracked to its expiry.

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