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Restaurant & QSR software

Audit-ready on every shift.

Every shift completes its checks, every bad delivery becomes a tracked QIR, and headquarters sees completion across every unit, in real time.

What inspectors check

Checklists, logs, and audits map to the FDA Food Code and the controls a health inspector looks for, so a unit can self-assess before anyone walks in the door.

FDA Food Code Health Inspections HACCP Allergen Control Time & Temp Date Marking
One shift, fully logged

From open to close, every shift logs itself.

The hard part of multi-unit food safety is not the checklist. It is knowing that every unit ran it, catching the problems that do happen, and seeing it all without calling each store. Follow one day through one store.

  1. 5:45 AM

    Open the store

    A PIN sign-in, the opening checklist, temps logged with photo proof.

  2. 10:20 AM

    Mid-shift checks

    Time and temperature logs, scanned to the right station.

  3. 1:40 PM

    A delivery comes in wrong

    The crew files a QIR in seconds, photos attached, time-stamped.

  4. 4:00 PM

    Shift change

    Open items stay visible, so the next crew picks up where the last one left off.

  5. 10:15 PM

    Close the store

    Closing checks done before the lights go out, even if the wifi already is.

  6. Now

    HQ sees all of it

    Completion by store and region, rolling up in real time.

Beacon's checklist history for a store, every shift's checks with executors and pass rates
A shift checklist mid-completion on a tablet in Beacon's floor workspace
Incidents & QIR

A bad delivery becomes a tracked QIR, not a shrug.

Damaged product, a short-dated case, the wrong item on the truck. The crew files a Quality Incident Report in seconds with photos, right from the floor, and the distributor is on the record. Every report is time-stamped and attributable, and patterns show up across shifts and units instead of dying in a group chat. When the same distributor and product combination shows up a third time within 30 days, Beacon opens a corrective action automatically.

  • File a QIR from the floor in seconds, with photo evidence
  • Every report time-stamped and attributable to the distributor
  • Patterns surface across shifts and units, not just within one store
  • Repeat distributor or product issues open a corrective action automatically
See a QIR filed live
Beacon quality issue report tracked against the distributor that delivered it
Beacon multi-unit dashboard showing checklist completion by store and region
Multi-unit visibility

See completion across every unit, in real time.

Stop calling each store to ask if the opening checklist got done. Completion rolls up by store and by region as it happens, so you can see which units are on track, which have an open incident, and where a pattern is forming, from one screen.

  • Completion rollup by store and by region
  • Open incidents and overdue checks at a glance
  • Patterns across units, not buried in one location
  • Scope the view to a region, a district, or a single store
See the rollup live
The rest of the floor

Everything a shift needs, in one app.

Daily store-ops checklists

Opening and closing routines, temperature and time logs, cleaning schedules. Built for the line, completed on the floor, time-stamped automatically.

Health-inspection prep

Run an inspector-style rubric audit before the inspector does. Findings convert to tracked corrective actions so nothing slips between visits.

Floor Access Mode

Lock a shared device to the floor so it only does floor work. A barista signs in with a PIN and never sees the back office.

Any Tablet or Phone

Runs on any iOS or Android device today, with native apps coming soon. Camera capture and scan-to-context built for a busy shift.

Built for the floor

Works where the work happens.

The floor is loud, fast, and not always online. Beacon is built for it: an app that runs on any tablet or phone, with native iOS and Android apps coming soon, keeps line checks moving through dropped wifi, and signs your crew in with a PIN in a second. The back office gets the data; the floor gets out of the way.

See the floor app
Built with operators

Designed on the floor of working multi-unit operations.

The restaurant and QSR surface was shaped with multi-unit operators, around how a real floor runs a shift: loud, fast, short-staffed, and not always online. The floor app exists because the people who do this work told us what a shift actually needs.

PCQI Certified · FSPCA Trained on the operating team

What's behind Beacon

49

Years of audit-side experience

A former SQF Lead Auditor and HACCP Alliance Instructor advising every module.

7,500+

Audits conducted

On the side of the table that asks the questions.

1

Working food operation it grew up in

The same operator-built foundation as the rest of Beacon, where a missed check is a finding, not a ticket.

Industries

Run a different kind of operation?

Beacon runs manufacturing plants, multi-unit restaurants, and co-pack operations, all on the same platform.

See Beacon run a shift.

A 20-minute walkthrough scoped to your units, your menu, and the way your crews actually work. Not a pitch deck.

Prefer the phone? (313) 484-4887

What happens next

01

Discovery call

About your units, your menu, and how your crews actually work.

02

Live walkthrough

A shift run live: sign-in, checks, a QIR, and the HQ rollup.

03

Custom proposal

Rollout and pricing sized to your store count.

You'll talk with a food safety expert, not a sales rep.

20 minutes · No commitment · No pressure

Restaurant & QSR software

Questions multi-unit operators ask.

Straight answers, including exactly where the floor app's limits are.

It is the system a restaurant or multi-unit QSR uses to run daily food safety on the floor: opening and closing checklists, temperature and time logs, allergen and date-marking controls, incident reports, health-inspection prep, and training records. Beacon puts that work on a floor app your crew actually uses during a shift, and rolls completion up to headquarters so leadership can see every unit in one place.

Each crew member signs in with their own PIN, no email or password per person. They scan a station or product to load the right checklist, complete it, and attach photo evidence on the spot. Line checks queue through brief connectivity drops and sync on demand, so a dropped wifi connection on the line does not scrap the reading you just took. Floor Access Mode can lock a shared device to the floor so it only does floor work.

That is the point. Every unit runs the same checks, and completion rolls up by store and by region in real time. Headquarters sees which units finished their opening checklist, which have an open incident, and where a pattern is forming, without calling each location to ask.

Beacon runs health-inspector-style rubric audits, so a unit can self-assess against the same criteria an inspector uses. Findings convert into tracked corrective actions, and the daily logs an inspector asks for are already captured and time-stamped. When the inspector arrives, the evidence is in the system, not in a drawer.

A Quality Incident Report. When a delivery arrives with a problem, damaged product, a short-dated case, the wrong item, a quality defect, the crew files a QIR in seconds with photos and the distributor is on the record. Patterns show up across shifts and units, and when the same distributor and product combination shows up a third time within 30 days, Beacon opens a corrective action automatically, so a bad pattern does not just get logged and forgotten.

In part, and the specifics matter more than a yes. The floor app runs on any tablet or phone: in the browser today, installable to the home screen, with native iOS and Android apps coming soon. Line checks queue through brief connectivity drops and sync on demand, so a rush does not scrap the reading you just took. Checklist answers stay on the device until you are back on the network and resubmit. Photo evidence and incident reports need a live connection, and we would rather tell you that here than have you find it out in a walk-in.

Crew use a PIN, so onboarding a new hire takes a minute, not an IT ticket. The workflows are built for the line: scan, tap, photo, done. Managers and QA leaders get full accounts with dashboards and reporting; the floor stays simple on purpose.