Still filling in paper fridge logs at 5am?
Replace guesswork with continuous records — most hospitality sites live within about an hour. Alerts when drift lasts, monthly HACCP PDFs, and a login-free action page for floor staff.
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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 + 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.
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 + Sensor Monitoring × 6 profile.
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 + Sensor Monitoring × 12 per location: two hubs (coverage redundancy), 12 sensors. Smaller venues can drop down to the Restaurant Pack + Sensor Monitoring without changing how head office sees them.
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
One critical asset
Starter Pack + Sensor Monitoring × 1
Typical 3-asset cafe / bakery
Cafe Pack + Sensor Monitoring × 3
Working restaurant (6 assets)
Restaurant Pack + Sensor Monitoring $8/mo or $60/yr per sensor
Large kitchen (7-12)
Restaurant Pack + add hardware as needed; switch to Sensor Monitoring × 12 $8/mo or $60/yr per sensor
Multi-site group
Multi-Site Pack per venue + Sensor Monitoring × 12 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.