About Somerville College

Somerville College is one of the University of Oxford's prestigious colleges. It is one of the first colleges to accept women students and was founded in 1879.

Daily meals are provided to students, fellows and visitors The college also hosts events and conferences. The catering and events department is headed up by Dave Simpson who is passionate about providing amazing quality food at the College.

The Challenge

Somerville College already had a 5 star rating and a bespoke food safety management system. However, they wanted to take their food safety practices to the next level with digital recording of food safety checks.

Dave, the catering and events manager, is always keen to save time, and make the day to day running of the kitchen more efficient for Paul, his head chef and the whole kitchen team.

The Benefits

Food Safety Logic’s digital kitchen diary provides Somerville College with instant access to their monitoring checks.

They can upload pictures and input data on any device to help ensure they are making safe food. These due diligence checks will always be to hand so one less thing to worry about during inspections or audits.

The Solution

A web app available from any device developed in collaboration with environmental health officers and insights from chefs. It has been designed to elevate food safety practices and is available for a small monthly or annual fee.

The app can be made bespoke by adding cleaning checks, suppliers, target temperatures etc. It is suitable for single or multi site businesses and can be branded up with the business logo if required.

The Result

Somerville College are using the digital kitchen diary in their large busy kitchen and servery. Paul the head chef has noticed the positive impact it has had including ‘no more missing bits of paper or misplaced files. ‘