Real-Time Visibility into Kitchen Operations
Monitor food preparation, ensure quality and safety standards, and maintain peak efficiency in your back of house operations.
How It Works
Install Kitchen Cameras
Cameras are positioned to cover prep stations, cooking lines, and plating areas. They are designed for kitchen environments — heat-resistant and easy to clean.
AI Tracks Prep Workflow
The system monitors food preparation steps, tracks ticket times from order to plate, and identifies when stations are backed up or idle.
Ensure Compliance
Automated monitoring helps verify that safety protocols are followed consistently — from food handling procedures to cleanliness standards.
Food Prep Monitoring
Hellometer gives you continuous visibility into your kitchen line. The system monitors each prep station in real time, tracking how orders move from screen to plate. You can see which stations are keeping pace and which ones are falling behind — without standing in the kitchen yourself.
Ticket time tracking breaks down the preparation process into stages. You can measure how long each phase takes on average, identify which menu items slow down the line, and spot the difference between a well-staffed shift and one that is struggling to keep up.
Historical data reveals prep patterns over time. You can compare weekday lunch rushes to weekend dinner service, measure the impact of a new menu item on line speed, and make staffing decisions based on actual kitchen throughput rather than estimates.
Safety and Compliance
Food safety is non-negotiable, but verifying compliance manually is time-consuming and inconsistent. Hellometer provides a continuous monitoring layer that helps ensure your team follows established protocols throughout every shift.
The system can help track food handling practices, monitor prep area cleanliness, and verify that temperature-sensitive processes are being followed. When the system detects a potential protocol deviation, it creates a timestamped record that managers can review and use for coaching.
For operators subject to regular health inspections, Hellometer builds an ongoing compliance record. Rather than scrambling to document practices before an audit, you have a continuous log of kitchen operations that demonstrates your commitment to food safety standards.
Workflow Optimization
Kitchen efficiency directly impacts service speed, food quality, and labor costs. Hellometer identifies workflow bottlenecks by analyzing how orders flow through your kitchen, showing you exactly where time is lost and where capacity is underutilized.
Labor efficiency reports correlate staffing levels with kitchen output. You can see the relationship between the number of staff on the line and the throughput they produce, helping you find the sweet spot where adding another person improves speed versus where it just adds cost.
Prep forecasting uses historical order data to predict upcoming demand. Knowing that your Friday lunch rush typically hits at 11:45 and peaks with a specific menu mix lets your team prep smarter, reduce waste, and have the right ingredients ready before the rush begins.
Compliance rate
Waste reduction
Kitchen alerts
Kitchen visibility
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See how Kitchen Monitoring can transform your back of house operations.