Case studies · Ireland & UK
Food businesses that came off paper.
A pizza manufacturer supplying the multiples, an independent SuperValu group with five stores and a licensed production kitchen, and a third-generation producer and distributor. Different problems, same clipboard.
Paper to fully digital
Pizza Sorrento, from first migration to a complete digital system.
Accreditation achieved
Followed by large contract awards with UK and Irish multiples.
Licensed kitchen digitised
Alongside five retail stores running very different control points.
The customers
Three businesses,
three different problems.
Manufacturing
Paper to fully digital in four weeks
Pizza Sorrento · Dublin
- BRC AA accreditation, then large contract awards
- Fixed sensors, Bluetooth probes and tablets deployed
- Supplies Aldi, Lidl and SuperValu
Multi-site retail
Five stores and a licensed production kitchen
Ryan's Group · Cork
- 852/3 licensed kitchen digitised on its own terms
- Standalone tracking for butchers, delis and bakeries
- Thousands of batches processed efficiently
Production
Auditing became a search function
Greenaway Foods · UK & Ireland
- BRC processes aligned with the app and cloud platform
- Tablets replaced clipboards, filing moved off site
- Tracing runs backwards and forwards in one step
The pattern
None of them had
a food safety problem.
Every one of these businesses was already doing the checks. What they had was a records problem, and it showed up in the same three places.
Audits cost days, not hours
Preparing for an audit meant finding folders, cross-referencing dockets and hoping nothing was missing. In all three cases the records existed — retrieving them was the expensive part.
- Greenaway: audit prep became a filter and an export
- Sorrento: audits had been costly and time-consuming
- Ryan’s: storage alone was needed to stay audit ready
Paper multiplies with growth
Each of these businesses hit the problem while expanding. More sites, more lines and more staff turn a manageable pile of paperwork into a structural cost.
- Sorrento: paper, ink and storage across 50+ staff
- Ryan’s: the same forms photocopied across five stores
- Greenaway: compliance time rising with the business
Human transcription introduces error
Numbers written down, carried across and typed up again is three chances to be wrong. Capturing the reading once, at the point of the check, removes the other two.
- Sorrento: errors from a high number of manual interactions
- Ryan’s: check sheets sometimes hard to interpret
- Greenaway: costly errors and missing documents
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