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About Lemon.

Lemon is a food safety record-keeping app for UK kitchens. It helps restaurant owners, chefs and kitchen managers keep everyday checks, problems and follow-up records together.

Facts reviewed

Armin and Gauthier, the founders of Lemon.
Armin and Gauthier, founders of Lemon

Built in Edinburgh by people who worked in restaurants.

We're Armin and Gauthier. We met studying in Edinburgh. Lemon is the tool we wanted in our own kitchens, fast enough to use during service and complete when the inspector asks.

  • 800kfood safety checks recorded
  • 900+UK chefs using Lemon
  • 3+years in operation

What you can do in Lemon.

Every record shows who did the check and when.

Kitchen tasks and what Lemon records
Kitchen taskWhat Lemon records
Temperature checksFridge, freezer and hot-hold readings entered by the team
Food checksCooking, cooling, reheating and hot-holding records
DeliveriesSupplier, delivery details, condition and relevant checks
Kitchen routinesEditable checklists for the procedures your kitchen follows
ProblemsNotes, follow-up and up to three photos on temperature issues, with checklist notes for other findings
Allergen informationAn optional dish-by-dish matrix for the 14 regulated allergens, with contains and may contain
Closed daysWeekly closing days and one-off closures, shown as closed on the calendar and in the PDF report
Record sharingPDF food-safety reports and an allergen-matrix PDF

How Lemon fits your food safety system

Your food safety system describes the procedures your business follows. Lemon helps you record the work of putting them into practice.

If you use SFBB, keep your completed safe methods and required diary confirmation accessible. If your business uses CookSafe, Safe Catering or another HACCP-based system, use the procedures and records appropriate to it. Lemon does not generate a HACCP plan or certify that a kitchen complies with the law.

How Lemon supports SFBB records

Who Lemon is for

Teams who do and record their own food safety checks: independent restaurants, cafés, pubs and takeaways, and owners with more than one kitchen.

Each kitchen keeps its own records and team.

Staff training, included.

The My training screen in the Lemon app, with an assigned course.

Lemon includes six courses, from food hygiene, allergens and food safety management to supervising food safety, fire safety and first aid awareness, in the plan and in the free trial. Owners and managers assign courses and follow progress in the Lemon app. Staff take them in the same app, with the same account.

Certificates download as PDFs. Training records export as a CSV file for spreadsheets.

The courses support your team's learning; they do not replace training in your own procedures. Completion certificates are not accredited or regulated qualifications.

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Know the limits before you choose.

What Lemon does not do today, so nothing surprises you after you sign up.

  • No sensors, no HACCP plan

    Lemon doesn't connect to temperature sensors, and it doesn't write a HACCP plan for you.

  • Checklists need a connection

    Temperature readings, food logs, deliveries and issue reports save on the phone and send when the connection comes back. Checklists still need an internet connection to save.

  • The allergen matrix holds what you enter

    It doesn't work out allergens from your ingredients, check supplier specifications or make food labels.

  • Reports are PDFs

    On the web, save the report as a PDF from your browser's print window.

One plan, charged per location.

Food safety records and staff training, for the whole team. Owners sign up on the web, then the team signs in on iPhone, iPad, Android or the web.

£19per location
per month

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Company and contact.

Official app listings: Lemon on the App Store and Lemon on Google Play. Read our privacy policy and terms.

Product
Lemon
Website
getlemon.app
Operator
Lemon App OÜ, Estonia
Started
Edinburgh, 2023
Registry code
17269806
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