ChillSense for hospitality

Hospitality is the vertical ChillSense was built for. From single-venue specialty cafes through working restaurants with walk-in cool rooms to multi-venue groups across regions, one consistent platform covers every format — per-venue dashboards for the chef on the line, group-level rollups for head office, and HACCP-ready PDFs as the audit-grade evidence layer.

Cafes & bakeries Restaurants & pubs Multi-site groups

Cafes & bakeries

Cafes and bakeries are the most under-monitored cold-chain operators in Australia, and the most exposed to a single fridge failure: when the display fridge fails on a Sunday morning, the loss is high-margin stock and reputation, not just dollars on a balance sheet.

ChillSense fits a typical cafe in an afternoon and pays back the subscription roughly the first time it warns you about a fridge before stock is lost — usually within the first quarter thanks to AI drift detection.

A typical cafe deployment

Three sensors across the three highest-risk assets:

Front-of-house display fridge
Under-counter prep fridge on the line
Upright or chest freezer

That maps to the Cafe Pack + matching 3-sensor monitoring. One hub is enough for almost every cafe footprint.

Bakeries — humidity matters

Bakeries get two-for-one monitoring on the proofing fridge, chocolate temper cabinet, or cake display: every sensor measures temperature and humidity, so a separate humidity logger can be decommissioned.

Specialty cafe with display fridge — replace via Odoo editor

Restaurant kitchen with walk-in cool room — replace via Odoo editor

Restaurants & pubs

A working restaurant kitchen has a different cold-chain profile from a cafe: at least one walk-in cool room, multiple prep fridges on the line, dedicated freezer space, plus dessert or bar fridges that always get forgotten. The risk per failed asset is bigger — a walk-in failure overnight can write off a five-figure stock holding.

A typical deployment

Six sensors per site, with deliberate redundancy in the walk-in:

1-2: Walk-in cool room (door-side + deep)
3-4: Under-counter prep fridges on the line
5: Bar or dessert fridge
6: Upright or chest freezer

This is the Restaurant Pack + 6-sensor monitoring profile, with the 5% volume discount built in.

What changes overnight

A walk-in failure during a Friday night gets caught by the rules engine within minutes — and predicted days in advance by AI drift detection when the compressor starts to labour. The alternative is finding out at 5am Saturday when the chef arrives for prep.

Multi-site hospitality groups

Multi-site groups have a problem cafes and single-venue restaurants don't: head office needs consistent answers across every venue, while each venue manager needs to act on their own asset-level reality. The traditional answer is a spreadsheet that gets emailed around weekly; ChillSense is the answer that updates itself.

Per-venue (chefs / venue managers): site-level dashboard, alerts routed to venue contacts, monthly HACCP PDF per venue, role-based access.

Head office (ops director / food-safety lead): multi-site overview, filter by region / brand / format, consolidated incident view, group-aggregated HACCP reports, 30-day per-venue incident trend, AI peer benchmarking flagging outlier venues.

Recommended deployment per venue

Multi-Site Pack + 12-sensor monitoring per location: two hubs (coverage redundancy), 12 sensors, the largest volume discount (10%). Smaller venues can drop down to the Restaurant Pack + 6-sensor monitoring without changing how head office sees them.

Multi-site overview for head office — replace via Odoo editor

Roles in a hospitality deployment

Three roles, each with a sharp boundary.

Owner

Operator, venue manager, group ops

Configure thresholds, manage users, review monthly HACCP reports, multi-site rollups.

Manager

Head chef, sous chef

Set alert contacts per asset, investigate incidents, action AI drift nudges.

Staff

Line cooks, bar staff, baristas

Receive SMS alerts — no login needed. Tap, acknowledge, pick a corrective action, done.

Sizing options at a glance

Large kitchen (7-12)

Restaurant Pack + add hardware as needed; switch to 12-sensor monitoring 10% discount

Multi-site group

Multi-Site Pack per venue + 12-sensor monitoring per venue

Custom (12+ per site)

Talk to us about consolidated invoicing and a tiered group plan.

Next steps

We'll size your site (or every site in your group) over the phone and pre-configure the hardware before it ships.