One app for everything. Not another app for one thing.
The narrow tools take the easy slice — a temperature diary — and hand you back the hard part. Culinary Key covers everything an inspection asks for: checklists, allergens, COSHH, training — all in one place, simple enough your team actually keeps up.
Try it — step through a day
Everything food safety asks of you. The daily checks and the parts a diary leaves out.
Grouped the way your kitchen actually works — the everyday run, the compliance a temperature app ignores, and everything you need as you add sites.
The daily
The routine your team runs every shift — fast enough that they actually do it.
Opening checks
Start the day right — fridges, dates and prep, logged before service.
Cleaning
Rolling cleaning schedules that tick themselves off, so nothing's "someone else did it."
Temperature
Tap in a reading; it tells you on the spot if it's out of range.
Closing
End-of-day checks done and timestamped, not remembered the next morning.
What a diary can't
Here's where the simple apps stop. A temperature diary logs your fridges and hands the rest back to you — the allergens, the chemicals, the training records, the things an inspector actually opens a case over. Culinary Key covers all of it, in the same place, no upgrade, no second app.
Allergens
Every dish, every allergen, current and provable the moment someone asks.
COSHH
Chemical safety sheets and assessments logged, not lost in a drawer.
Safe methods
Your SFBB safe methods, documented and signed, ready to show.
Training & sign-offs
Who's trained, in what, and when it expires — tracked, not guessed.
Bulletins
Push a notice to every site and see who's read it — proof the team was told.
At any scale
One kitchen or fourteen — the same system, growing with you, never a different product.
Multi-site
Every location its own records and team, all under one account.
Team roles
Owner, manager, staff — everyone sees exactly what they should.
Missed-log detection
The system spots the check that didn't happen and flags it.
Audit-ready exports
A whole site's history to PDF in one tap, inspection-ready.
Inspector-ready
Give an EHO read-only access to exactly what they need, nothing more.
Try it — clear a missed log
The following operating days have incomplete records. Acknowledge each one before saving today's opening check.
Built for kitchens. By someone who's worked in them.
Paper diaries, binders nobody reads, records scrambled together the morning before an inspection — I know, because I've lived it. Twenty years in UK kitchens, from independent bakeries to BRC-audited production. Culinary Key is the compliance tool I always needed and could never find.
Twenty years on the other side of the clipboard
The person responsible when the EHO walks in — not someone who read the guidance and built an app.
I know what actually fails an inspection
Allergens, COSHH, safe methods, training — the hard slice other tools skip. I used to chase it all on paper.
I tried the others. Each did one thing.
Every tool handed the rest back to me. Culinary Key holds all of it — every gap, closed — because I built it to.
Food safety should just work. That's what I built Culinary Key for. Read my story →
How it works
From sign-up to inspection-ready in four steps.
Sign Up
No downloads, no calls — create your account and be set up in minutes.
Build Your Checklists
Use the guided wizard to set up Opening, Cleaning and Temperature checks for your site.
Your Team Completes Checks
Staff complete daily tasks on any device. Every entry is logged automatically.
Stay Inspection-Ready
All records stored securely and ready to show at any inspection — no paper, no panic.
What our customers say
"We've been using Culinary Key as our digital HACCP diary, and it has significantly streamlined our catering operations. What was once a time-consuming and paper-heavy process is now efficient, organized, and fully digital. The platform is user-friendly, reliable, and helps ensure we stay compliant with food safety standards without the usual stress. I would highly recommend Culinary Key to any food business looking to modernize and simplify their HACCP management."
Simple pricing for every kitchen
One kitchen or ten — pay only for what you run. Every plan includes the full toolkit, nothing locked behind a higher tier.
Free Trial
30 Days Free
No card required
- Full access to every feature
- Set up your real Location from day one
- All checklists, audits & temperature logs
- Email and chat support
1–4 Locations
£40 / Location / month
Save ~17% billed annually
- All compliance tools included
- Opening, cleaning, temperature & closing checks
- Audit logs ready for any inspection
- Add or remove Locations any time
- Email and chat support
Each Location billed separately — add or remove any time. Volume discount applies automatically from 5 Locations. Running a larger operation? See full pricing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know before you sign up.