Here's how the Spanish software company successfully integrates modern identification and labeling in the extremely demanding foodservice market.
LabelFood is the oldest Spanish company dealing with food safety and process identification for the catering industry. With over 30 years of experience in this area, LabelFood specializes in the production of solid, safe and comprehensive identification and labeling solutions for institutions, entities and companies throughout the country. Following the evolution of market requirements, LabelFood constantly uses innovative technologies to design, develop and implement systems that improve the client's business by prioritizing the health of employees and consumers.
Challenge
As food labeling in the foodservice sector continues to evolve, LabelFood aims to build state-of-the-art labeling software with innovative label printing using technology that can be easily integrated into the kitchen environment. When designing a dynamic and intuitive system that will ensure connectivity and reliability at the highest level, it is necessary to use leading solutions. LabelFood needed responsive tablets and printers that would guarantee sufficiently fast printing, while adapting to changing temperatures and humidity in the demanding kitchen space.
Aiming to work with innovative manufacturers who understand the constant evolution of technology, LabelFood has focused on finding a label printing system that can be easily integrated into their software platform to meet the needs of all foodservice environments.
Solution
After consultation, LabelFood chose the XQ-840 model from the renowned BIXOLON brand. It is a label printing solution with a built-in 8-inch Android-based tablet and a 4-inch (118 mm) thermal label printer. The XQ-840G works in conjunction with their SmartFood LITE V1.1 software running on Android. A fully customizable plug and play system combined with instant customer support streamlines professional foodservice services by automating and digitizing food safety while ensuring the operational efficiency you need. Impressed by the effectiveness of BIXOLON's printing solutions, LabelFood decided to integrate additional printers (SLP-DX220BG and SPP-L3000iWK) with their SmartFood LITE software platform.
Results
The SmartFood Lite solution has been successfully implemented in the most important restaurant groups in Spain, and the next step is to start distribution throughout Europe through strategic partnerships. The new solution enables personalization of foodservice solutions to improve labeling processes for both shelf life and food preparation. By modernizing kitchens, they guarantee food safety and improve operational efficiency.
The solution proposed by LabelFood saves time by eliminating food waste resulting from staff mistakes and prevents the destruction of products in the warehouse. It enables companies to access analysis and statistics of all labeling activities, providing personal access to training videos and food preparation instructions, as well as product data sheets. It also offers a range of alarms and checklists compliant with HACCP food safety standards, continuous food preparation regulations and record keeping of printed labels.
LabelFood rose to the challenge by selecting the best equipment from the BIXOLON brand and developing intuitive and dynamic software that is capable of automating activities related to food labeling, identification, information transfer and streamlining processes in the catering industry.
Based on BIXOLON source materials.
