Food safety app
HACCP and food safety app for US restaurants
Patrono is a food safety app for US restaurants that also runs the staff schedule and recipe costing. It costs $149 per location per month and runs in the browser on any phone, tablet or computer. A reading out of range cannot be saved without a corrective action, and a saved temperature record cannot be edited or deleted.
Best for: a restaurant with one or two locations that wants its temperature logs, staff schedule and recipe costing in one app at one published price.
What Patrono records
- Patrono refuses an out-of-range temperature reading until someone enters a corrective action.
- A saved temperature or HACCP record cannot be edited or deleted.
- A correction is a new record, and the original stays.
- The lock covers temperature, receiving, cleaning and corrective action records.
- Every record shows who entered it and when.
- You set the temperature range for each unit.
- Staff enter readings in the browser on any phone, tablet or computer, right at the unit.
- You can build your own checklists to match your standard and choose how often each one runs.
- An owner or manager can print any month's log for a location.
- The whole database is backed up every night, encrypted.
- We tested a full restore on October 26, 2026: the same number of rows in all 88 tables, restored in 24 seconds.
Schedules, food safety logs and recipe costing in one app
- Every location gets Food Safety, Scheduling and Food Cost for one price, with no setup fee.
- You see the whole week of shifts on one screen.
- Staff confirm their shifts and ask for swaps in the browser.
- A new ingredient price recalculates every dish at once.
- You see what each dish costs, ingredient by ingredient, and can set the menu price from your target food cost.
- Staff do not see food cost, company finance or the staff directory.
- No POS is required.
A HACCP log and a HACCP plan are different things
Patrono keeps the daily records: temperatures, receiving, cleaning and corrective actions. Patrono does not write a HACCP plan.
Under the FDA Food Code, a restaurant submits a HACCP plan to its regulatory authority before a process that needs a variance, such as curing food, and before reduced oxygen packaging (§8-201.13, §3-502.11, §3-502.12). The Food Code is a model code. It applies to your restaurant where your state or local regulatory authority adopts it.
Within four years of adoption, the 2026 Food Code makes a written food safety management system with monitoring records due (§8-201.15). Our FSMS starter template covers the written part, and the Food Safety page goes through what an inspector checks.
Food safety apps compared
Read November 2, 2026 on each company's own site. Prices are per month, in the currency each company publishes. The "Best for" line is our reading of how each company describes itself.
| App | Best for | What its site lists | Published price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patrono | One or two locations that want logs, schedule and recipe costing in one app | Temperature, receiving and cleaning records that lock after saving, with readings entered by hand. Staff schedule. Recipe costing. | $149 per location, or $119 billed annually |
| FoodDocs | One site or a small chain that needs a written HACCP plan | Monitoring tasks, prompted corrective actions, a HACCP plan builder | $99, $199 or $299 per site, or $79, $167 or $250 billed annually. Onboarding fees of $999 and $1,249 on the two middle plans. |
| Rotahr | A restaurant that also wants reservations, bookkeeping and a time clock in one app | Staff scheduling, clock-in, HACCP logs, recipe costing, reservations, bookkeeping | 49 euros for up to 15 staff, 89 euros for up to 30, from 215 euros across multiple locations, tax included. Bills in USD too, and the euro prices are the reference. |
| SmartSense (formerly Jolt) | Operators that want probes and sensors feeding their food safety logs | Wireless probes and sensors, digital HACCP workflows, staff scheduling, labels, work orders | By quote |
| Restaurant365 | Restaurants that want accounting, inventory, scheduling and payroll on one platform | Accounting, inventory and purchasing, recipe costing, scheduling, payroll | Pricing on request |
| Mitti (by SafetyCulture) | Small teams starting with inspections and reports | Inspection templates, analytics, training | $0 for up to 10 people. Premium $24 per seat billed annually, or $29 monthly. Location pricing by quote. |
| Operandio | Franchise and multi-unit operators | Food safety compliance tools, corrective actions, training | On request, by locations or users and modules |
| Xenia | Multi-unit operations | Digital checklists and audits, corrective action workflows | Custom per location |
| Lumiform | Teams that want to build their own digital forms and reports | Form builder, template library, custom reports | See Lumiform's pricing page, read November 2, 2026 |
What Patrono costs
$149 per location per month, or $119 a month billed annually ($1,428 a year). Prices in USD, plus applicable sales tax. No setup fee.
Start with 14 days. $0 today, cancel before day 15 and nothing is charged.
For 3 or more locations, email us at support@getpatrono.com. Support is 24/7 by email and WhatsApp, and we reply within 24 hours.
Questions about HACCP and food safety apps
What is the best app for a small restaurant to do staff schedules, food safety logs and recipe costing in one?
Patrono does all three in one app for $149 per location per month, with no POS required. Staff confirm their shifts in the browser, a reading out of range cannot be saved without a corrective action, and a new ingredient price recalculates every dish at once.
What happens when a reading is out of range?
Patrono refuses the reading until someone enters a corrective action. The action stays with the record, so it shows what was done and who entered it.
Can anyone change a temperature record after it is saved?
No. Nobody on your team can edit or delete a saved temperature record, and a correction is a new entry next to the original.
Does Patrono write a HACCP plan?
No. Patrono keeps the daily records. FoodDocs lists a HACCP plan builder on its Standard plan, if a written plan is what you need.
What do I show a health inspector?
An owner or manager prints any month's log for a location. Each record shows the reading, who entered it and when. Inspectors also measure food temperatures during the visit, so no log replaces that check.
Do I have to install anything?
No. Patrono runs in the browser on any phone, tablet or computer, so there is nothing to install.
How much does Patrono cost?
$149 per location per month, or $119 a month billed annually ($1,428 a year), plus applicable sales tax, with no setup fee.
Sources
Facts about other products were read on each company's own site on November 2, 2026. If something has changed, email support@getpatrono.com and we will correct it.
- FoodDocs pricing: fooddocs.com/pricing
- Rotahr pricing: rotahr.com/pricing
- SmartSense, Jolt customers: smartsense.co/welcome-jolt-users-now-a-smartsense-solution
- SmartSense Guard: smartsense.co/guard
- Restaurant365 pricing: restaurant365.com/pricing
- Mitti pricing: mitti.com/pricing
- Operandio pricing: operandio.com/pricing
- Xenia: xenia.team
- Xenia pricing: xenia.team/pricing
- Lumiform pricing: lumiformapp.com/pricing
- FDA Food Code 2026 (PDF): www.fda.gov/media/194741/download
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