Free food safety checklist for cafes, delis & bakeries

Questions

Common questions

What should be on a daily food safety checklist for a cafe?

At a minimum: opening checks that everything is working and stocked, fridge and freezer temperatures, safe cooking/cooling/reheating where you handle hot food, cleaning, and closing checks. This template covers the daily opening, temperature, cleaning and closing checks a small cafe, deli or bakery needs.

Is this food safety checklist suitable for my country's rules?

The checks here are the everyday good-practice checks common to most food-safety schemes, and the temperature limits shown are set for your area. Your local authority's guidance always has the final say — this is a starting point you can adapt, not a substitute for it.

Is the checklist free?

Yes — print it and use it every day at no cost. If paper checklists keep going missing, ProCafe runs the same checks on your team's phones, records who did them and when, and keeps everything ready for an inspection. Free for 14 days, no card required.

How do I prove to an inspector that the checks were done?

With paper you keep the signed sheets on file. ProCafe keeps a time-stamped, tamper-evident history automatically and lets you export it as a PDF or spreadsheet — so when an inspector asks, the proof is a couple of taps away.