Kitchen Hygiene: an audit that never clocks off

What it does

Svid describes every frame of the footage it watches, and Kitchen Hygiene is a paid check over those descriptions on the cameras covering prep stations and the pass. It runs on every analysed frame it's enabled on and flags the moment something matches: a bare hand at a prep station, hair uncovered over food, a tray left out, a surface that's visibly dirty. The alert says exactly what fails and where, with a link to the moment, and lands on screen, by email, or by JSON webhook.

Franchise audits and the EHO

A franchise auditor sees the kitchen for a few hours a year. The cameras see every shift. When head office asks whether gloves are actually worn on the line, a set of timestamped flags, or the absence of any, is a better answer than anyone's recollection. It works in the other direction too: a franchisee who keeps the standard can show it's kept between visits rather than argue the point.

The same logic applies to environmental health. Operators run the check to catch the slipping standard on a Tuesday afternoon rather than read about it in a report, and to walk into an EHO visit already knowing what the cameras would say.

What an alert looks like

One event fires one alert, and a re-fire within two minutes is recorded as the same event continuing, so an uncovered tray doesn't page anyone sixty times. Because the flag arrives while the shift is still on, it gets fixed in minutes with a word at the pass instead of surfacing in a quarterly audit with a finding number attached.

Where it runs

It's enabled per camera, so it watches the prep line and leaves the dining room alone. It reads RTSP feeds from the existing recorder, uploaded exports, or a phone propped over a station. Recorded and live footage go through the same pipeline, so the sensible first step is running it over last week's service and reading the flags. Across a multi-site estate, kitchens kept in one folder can have the check applied to the whole folder in one action, and a fully on-prem appliance mode exists for sites where footage can't leave the building.

What it costs

The Store prices Kitchen Hygiene from your own usage before you buy, shown as ‘+$X/mo at your usage’ next to the check. The subscription it joins is priced from your own usage with a $9 a month minimum, and the whole derivation is on screen at signup. The pricing section walks through it.

Is this about catching staff out?

It's about making the standard visible before an audit makes it expensive. The flags describe practice, not identity, and most of them get fixed with a word at the pass. The aim is a quieter feed over time, not a fuller file.

Can I run it before an inspection?

Yes. Recorded and live footage go through the same pipeline, so you can run it over the last month's footage and see what an inspector's eye might land on, timestamps included.

Does it identify individual employees?

No. It describes what's visible in the frame, and there's no facial recognition or biometrics anywhere in Svid, deliberately.