August 2026 – If you’re looking for an SFBB app to replace paper food safety records, you may be wondering whether you need a simple digital solution or a more advanced food safety management system for your team.

SFBB App and SFBB Pro are designed for different types of food businesses.

SFBB App costs just £4.95 per month and provides the essential digital tools a food business needs to manage its day-to-day SFBB records.

SFBB Pro costs £25.95 per month and builds on those features with individual staff accounts, food date labelling, label printing, multi-site management and other tools designed for busy professional kitchens and growing hospitality businesses.

So which one should you choose?

What is SFBB App?

SFBB App is an affordable digital alternative to a traditional paper SFBB diary.

At £4.95 per month, it’s designed for independent restaurants, cafés, takeaways, food trucks and other food businesses that want a simple way to manage their food safety records digitally.

Instead of completing paperwork and storing physical diaries, businesses can record and access their essential food safety information through the app.

SFBB App includes:

• Customisable opening checks
• Customisable closing checks
• Fridge and freezer temperature records
• Cooking and probe temperature records
• Delivery records
• Incident and corrective-action records
• Custom food safety checklists
• Automated reminders and alerts
• Allergen management
• Digital reporting
• Custom-date reports
• Cloud-based record storage
• EHO-ready records and reports

This makes SFBB App particularly suitable for businesses where the owner, manager or a small number of people are responsible for completing the food safety records.

Who is SFBB App best for?

SFBB App is a good choice if you’re primarily looking to replace your paper SFBB diary with a digital SFBB appwithout paying for advanced features you don’t need.

For example, it could suit:

• Independent cafés
• Small restaurants
• Takeaways
• Fish and chip shops
• Food trucks
• Mobile caterers
• Bakeries
• Sandwich shops
• Small commercial kitchens
• Owner-operated food businesses

At only £4.95 per month, it provides an affordable way for smaller businesses to move their food safety records online.

What is SFBB Pro?

SFBB Pro is designed for businesses that need more than a digital food safety diary.

It includes the core food safety recording features available with SFBB App but adds tools designed to help owners and managers run food safety across an entire team or multiple locations.

SFBB Pro costs £25.95 per month and is particularly suited to restaurants, pubs, hotels, takeaways, catering businesses and hospitality groups with multiple employees completing food safety tasks.

One of the biggest differences is individual team member logins.

Rather than everyone using one account, team members can have their own access. This allows management to see who has completed individual food safety checks, creating greater accountability across the kitchen.

Feature	SFBB App	SFBB Pro
Monthly price	£4.95	£25.95
Digital SFBB diary	✅	✅
Customisable opening checks	✅	✅
Customisable closing checks	✅	✅
Fridge & freezer temperature records	✅	✅
Cooking/probe temperature records	✅	✅
Delivery records	✅	✅
Incident & corrective-action records	✅	✅
Custom checklists	✅	✅
Automated reminders & alerts	✅	✅
Allergen management	✅	✅
Safer Food Better Business Compliance pack built in to fill out	✅	✅
Advanced reporting	✅	✅
Custom-date reports	✅	✅
EHO-ready reports	✅	✅
Cloud-based record storage	✅	✅
Individual team member logins	❌	✅
Track which team member completed checks	❌	✅
Staff Level 2 Food Hygiene training	❌	🔜 Coming soon
Staff Level 3 Food Hygiene training	❌	🔜 Coming soon
Food date labelling	❌	✅
Bluetooth food label printer	❌	✅
Print prep/use-by labels	❌	✅
Multi-language support	❌	✅
Multi-site management	❌	✅
Owner multi-site dashboard	❌	✅
Manage multiple locations	❌	✅
Best suited to	Independent food businesses	Teams & multi-site operators with a kitchen team of chefs and workers.

The Biggest Difference: Managing a Business vs Managing a Team

For many businesses, the choice between SFBB App and SFBB Pro comes down to how their kitchen operates.

If one person is primarily responsible for food safety records, SFBB App may provide everything the business needs.

But once several employees are responsible for opening checks, closing checks, temperatures and other food safety tasks, accountability becomes increasingly important.

That’s where SFBB Pro’s individual staff logins become particularly useful.

Managers can identify which team member completed checks rather than simply seeing that a check has been completed.

For a busy restaurant or commercial kitchen, this can make managing food safety considerably easier.

Food Date Labelling and Label Printing with SFBB Pro

Another major difference is food date labelling.

SFBB Pro includes a food date labelling system designed for commercial kitchens.

Instead of chefs handwriting labels throughout a shift, food preparation and use-by labels can be created digitally and printed using a compatible Bluetooth food label printer.

This can help kitchens introduce a more consistent approach to food labelling while saving staff time.

For businesses preparing and storing large quantities of food every day, this feature alone may make SFBB Pro the better option.

Food Hygiene Training – Coming to SFBB Pro

SFBB Pro is also expanding beyond food safety record keeping.

Level 2 and Level 3 Food Hygiene training is coming soon to SFBB Pro.

This will allow businesses to bring more of their staff food safety management into one system.

Instead of using separate systems for food safety records and employee training, SFBB Pro is being developed to provide businesses with a more complete food safety management platform.

Managing Multiple Restaurants or Locations

Businesses operating several locations have very different requirements from a single independent café or takeaway.

SFBB Pro includes multi-site management, allowing owners and operators to manage multiple locations through an owner dashboard.

This makes Pro particularly suitable for:

• Restaurant groups
• Pub groups
• Multi-site takeaways
• Café groups
• Hotel operators
• Catering companies
• Wedding and event venues
• Businesses operating several commercial kitchens

Owners can oversee food safety across their locations without needing completely separate systems for each site.

Which SFBB App Should I Choose?

The decision can be kept relatively simple.

Choose SFBB App if…

You want an affordable digital SFBB app for recording and managing your essential food safety checks.

At £4.95 per month, SFBB App is particularly well suited to independent and smaller food businesses that don’t require individual employee accounts, food label printing or multi-site management.

Choose SFBB Pro if…

You operate a busy kitchen with multiple members of staff, need greater accountability, want to print food date labels, or operate more than one location.

At £25.95 per month, SFBB Pro provides the additional management tools needed as a food business grows.

Can I Start with SFBB App and Upgrade to SFBB Pro?

For many businesses, starting with SFBB App makes sense.

A small food business may initially only need a straightforward way to digitise its SFBB records.

As the business grows, takes on more employees or opens additional locations, its food safety requirements can become more complex.

That’s when upgrading to SFBB Pro becomes valuable.

Think of the difference as:

SFBB App — Digitise your food safety.

SFBB Pro — Manage your entire food safety operation.

A Digital Alternative to Paper SFBB Records

Paper SFBB diaries have traditionally been used by thousands of UK food businesses, but digital food safety systems can make records easier to complete, organise and retrieve.

Both SFBB App and SFBB Pro are designed to make everyday food safety management simpler.

The important thing is choosing the version that matches the way your business operates.

For a small independent food business wanting a simple and affordable SFBB app, the £4.95 SFBB App provides the essential tools needed to move away from paper records.

For businesses managing teams, food labelling or multiple locations, SFBB Pro provides a much more comprehensive food safety management system.

SFBB App

£4.95 per month

Simple, affordable digital food safety management for independent food businesses.

SFBB Pro

£25.95 per month

Advanced food safety management for professional kitchens, teams and multi-site hospitality businesses.