Festival Foods Selects PAR Technology’s Food Safety Solution – SureCheck® Advantage for Their Network of Stores
November 19 2015 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
Solution includes cutting edge “Cloud”
software and integrated hardware
ParTech, Inc. (PAR), a subsidiary of PAR Technology Corporation
(NYSE:PAR), announced today that Festival Foods has selected the
PAR SureCheck® Advantage Solution to support their food safety
program. Festival Foods, a Wisconsin based, family-owned company
will deploy PAR’s Internet of Things (IoT) mobile intelligent
checklist solution for food safety across 7 departments in their 21
full-service, state-of-the-art supermarkets.
“Food Safety is vital to Festival Foods' strategy and keeping
our customers safe is a top priority,” said Jake Parr, Food Safety
Director, Festival Foods. “The PAR SureCheck Advantage solution
helps get us off pen and paper food safety practices and digitizes
the data points so we can find trends, monitor compliance, and
proactively manage our stores. The all-in-one device is easy for
our operators to use and helps give us the visibility we need to
effectively manage our HACCP program.”
About SureCheck Advantage
The 5” handheld hardware device powered by Intel® Atom™
Processor technology offers high performance with low power
consumption designed for food quality and task management.
SureCheck® Advantage provides increased operational efficiencies
with its integrated temperature probe, bar code scanner and RFID
infrared temperature readers. SureCheck assures Hazard Analysis
& Critical Control Points (HACCP) compliance and has been shown
to improve operational efficiencies by 60% compared to traditional
pen and paper. The Software-as-a-Service model and cloud-based
enterprise server helps maintain accurate records for auditing and
analytics.
“Paper based food safety processes are inefficient, generally
unreliable, and operationally limiting,” said John Sammon, Senior
Vice President of Intelligent Checklists, ParTech, Inc. “SureCheck
Advantage, designed as an IoT / cloud solution, digitizes food
safety and HACCP records, resulting in cost savings, improved
quality control and enhanced visibility.”
As an IoT solution, Festival Foods will use all four primary
attributes of the SureCheck Advantage platform:
Sensor technology SureCheck Advantage wired
and infrared temperature probe Compute power SureCheck Advantage 5”
Enterprise grade hand-held device Application SureCheck software
Cloud / Data center SaaS based, subscription license
About Festival Foods
Festival Foods is a family and employee-owned company
headquartered in De Pere and Onalaska, WI. The company currently
operates 21 Festival Foods supermarkets and employs nearly 5,000
full- and part-time associates. Festival Foods has supermarkets in
Green Bay (2), De Pere, Suamico, Appleton (2), Neenah, Oshkosh,
Fond du Lac, Manitowoc, Sheboygan, Kenosha, Marshfield, Eau Claire,
Fort Atkinson, Mt. Pleasant, Janesville, Holmen, Onalaska and La
Crosse (2). The company operates The Marq, a banquet and catering
facility with locations in De Pere and Suamico.
For more information, visit www.festfoods.com.
About PAR Technology Corp.
PAR Technology Corporation's stock is traded on the New York
Stock Exchange under the symbol PAR. PAR’s Hospitality segment has
been a leading provider of restaurant and retail technology for
more than 30 years. PAR offers technology solutions for the full
spectrum of restaurant operations, from large chain and independent
table service restaurants to international quick service chains.
Products from PAR also can be found in retailers, cinemas, cruise
lines, stadiums and food service companies. PAR’s Government
Business is a leader in providing computer-based system design,
engineering and technical services to the Department of Defense and
various federal agencies. Visit www.partech.com for more
information.
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