Achieve 5-Star Food Safety Ratings with Ease.
HygienePal is the friendly food safety app that makes temperature checks, document uploads and inspection-ready records effortless — so cafes, restaurants and takeaways walk into every Food Hygiene Rating visit with confidence.
How it works
From sign-up to 5 stars in four friendly steps.
HygienePal is built around how busy UK food businesses actually work. No jargon, no clunky forms — just simple tools that keep your kitchen audit-ready every day.
1. Quick onboarding
We set up your business profile, fridges, freezers and HACCP checks in under an hour. No paperwork mountain, we promise.
2. Daily checks in seconds
Staff log temperatures, cleaning, deliveries and openings/closings from any phone or tablet — with handy reminders.
3. Upload your documents
Drag and drop allergen sheets, supplier certificates, training records and risk assessments — all in one tidy place.
4. Impress your inspector
When the EHO arrives, hand them a tablet. Records are organised, time-stamped and audit-ready — hello, 5 stars.
Features
Everything your kitchen needs. Nothing it doesn’t.
Effortless temperature recording
Log fridge, freezer, hot-hold and probe temperatures in seconds. Smart reminders mean nothing gets missed — even on the busiest service.
One place for every document
Upload supplier certificates, allergen matrices, cleaning schedules, training records and risk assessments. Everything organised, searchable and date-stamped.
See your whole business at a glance
A friendly dashboard shows today’s checks, missed tasks, document expiries and overall compliance score — across one site or many.
Inspectors love it
Records are time-stamped, signed off and exportable as a tidy PDF. Hand the inspector a tablet and watch them smile.
Very high chance of 5 stars
Businesses that use HygienePal consistently for 30+ days have an outstanding track record at their next Food Hygiene Rating visit.
App preview
A peek inside HygienePal.
Clean, friendly and built for kitchen reality. Here’s what your team and inspectors will see.
- Walk-in fridge3.2 °COK
- Service fridge4.1 °COK
- Freezer−18 °COK
- Hot hold — soup74 °COK
A friendly daily dashboard
See exactly what needs doing today — nothing more, nothing less.
Tap-to-log temperatures
Pre-set your equipment once. Then it’s tap, type, done.
Drag-and-drop documents
Allergens, training, suppliers, HACCP — all neatly filed.
Pricing
Simple, honest pricing. No surprises.
One small setup fee, then a tiny monthly amount. That’s it.
That’s less than a sack of flour each month — for a tool that protects your business, your team and your customers every single day.
Get started — book a free demo- Unlimited temperature & cleaning logs
- Unlimited document storage
- HACCP-aligned daily diary
- Inspector-ready PDF exports
- Friendly UK email & phone support
- Free updates, forever
No long contracts. Cancel anytime. Prices in GBP, exclusive of VAT.
Built by a UK restaurant owner who lived the food safety stress — so you don’t have to.
Awarded 5/5 by the local council
“The most professional establishment I’ve visited.” — Environmental Health Officer
Hi, I’m Paulo Benfeito — founder of HygienePal and a UK food business owner just like you.
I’ve spent more than 30 years in the food industry. I started behind the counter at McDonald’s when I was 16, learned the trade from the ground up, and today I own and run my own independent pizza restaurant in Bedfordshire, England.
If you run a cafe, takeaway, restaurant or any food business in the UK, you already know the feeling: the worry that an Environmental Health Officer will walk through the door on the one day you’re not on site — and your team won’t be able to find the temperature logs, delivery records, allergen sheets or fire certificates fast enough. For years, that fear lived in the back of my mind every single shift.
So I built the system I always wished I had. A simple, phone-friendly food safety management app that records fridge and probe temperatures in seconds, stores every certificate and delivery note in one place, and gives the whole team a clear daily checklist they actually use.
Then it happened. The council inspected my restaurant while I wasn’t there. My team handed the inspector everything he asked for at their fingertips — temperature records, delivery temps, every certificate including fire safety. We were awarded a perfect 5-star Food Hygiene Rating. The officer told my team we were the most professional establishment he’d ever visited, and said he wished every food business in the country had a system like this.
— So here it is. HygienePal.
HygienePal isn’t built by a software company guessing what food operators need. It’s built by an operator, for operators — aligned with Food Standards Agency (FSA) guidance and the Safer Food, Better Business pack, and designed to take the stress out of compliance so you can focus on what you actually love: feeding your customers.
Stories
Real UK food businesses, real 5 stars.
“We went from a stressful 3-star to a confident 5-star at our next visit. The inspector actually said our records were the tidiest they’d seen all month.”
“Temperature checks used to be a clipboard nightmare. Now my team taps it in on the tablet between covers. Best £10 a month I spend.”
“Setup was an hour over a cup of tea. Three months in, we got our first ever 5-star rating. My dad cried. HygienePal genuinely changed our shop.”
Case study
How The Copper Pot went from 3 to 5 stars in 11 weeks.
After a stressful 3-star at their previous visit, Marcus rolled HygienePal out to all 9 staff in a single Monday meeting. Daily checks were logged on a tablet by the pass; supplier certificates were uploaded the same week. At the next unannounced EHO visit, the inspector marked them “Very Good” across confidence in management, hygienic practices and structural standards.
FAQ
Questions, friendly answers.
Contact
Book a free demo or just say hello.
Tell us a little about your food business. We’ll get back to you within one working day — honestly, often the same hour.
No pressure, no jargon. We’ll show you the app and answer your questions.