Maintenance software for restaurant groups

Keep every kitchen cooking, in every branch.

Solmex puts the fryers, ovens and cold rooms of every branch on one list, lets kitchen staff report faults from a phone, and shows which machine and which branch costs you most.

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A chef in whites works at a long stainless steel cooking line in a commercial kitchen.

What is at stake

A kitchen that cannot cook loses every cover it was booked for.

12% to 18%

Saved by preventive maintenance compared with running equipment until it fails

Source: US Department of Energy, O&M Best Practices Guide

5% to 20%

Cut from building energy bills by good operation and maintenance, with little capital spend

Source: US Department of Energy, O&M Best Practices Guide

Sound familiar?

Equipment faults cost you service and stock.

Equipment fails mid-service

The combi oven stops at eight on a Friday. The manager calls the area engineer, then a contractor, and nobody knows it was repaired twice last month.

Temperature logs are a clipboard

Fridge and freezer readings are written on a sheet by the door. Some days are blank, and when the inspector visits, nobody can say who checked what.

Contractor bills with no history

Each branch calls its own contractor and the invoices arrive at head office with no link to a machine. The fryer that fails every month stays hidden.

How Solmex fixes it

One system for every kitchen in the group.

Respond

Faults reach the right person fast

Kitchen staff scan the QR code on the fryer, oven or dishwasher and report the fault with a photo. Your maintenance team or contractor sees the branch, the machine and its past repairs.

Report by QR code, no account needed
Staff who only report are free
Every branch in one queue

See Work Requests

Prove

Temperature logs and checks, signed

Staff on shift enter each fridge and freezer temperature and run opening checks from a phone. Every entry has a name and a time, a reading outside its range is flagged on entry, and a failed check opens a job.

One checklist for every branch
Out-of-range readings flagged on entry
Records ready for any inspection

See Inspections

Control

See what each branch really costs

Parts used and contractor invoices are recorded against the machine and roll up to the branch. The fryer repaired every month, and the branch that spends the most, show up in one report.

Cost per machine and per branch
Repeat repairs visible at once
Export to Excel for finance

See Costs

Your numbers

What is unplanned downtime costing you?

Move the sliders to match your operation. The starting values are typical for the sector, not a promise.

Critical assets (ovens, fryers, cold rooms, dishwashers)

Hours of unplanned downtime per asset, per year

Cost of one hour of downtime on one asset

Unplanned downtime costs you about $0

Planned maintenance that avoids 30% of it is worth $0

An estimate from your own inputs. The 30% is set below published results on purpose: NIST found 44% less downtime at plants that invested more in preventive and predictive maintenance.

No risk to try

Start small. Keep your data. Leave any time.

Free to start, free to stay

Every account gets 14 days of the Business plan. After that, one user and up to 25 assets stay free with no time limit.

Anyone can report a problem

Operators, cleaners and tenants report faults by scanning a QR code. People who only report are free on every plan.

Your data stays yours

Export every record to Excel whenever you like, or take a full export of the whole account. Nothing is locked in.

Private and controlled

Your company's records are kept apart from every other customer's, every change is logged, and you decide who can see and do what.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Do temperature readings come from sensors?

They can, through an integration built for you. We connect Solmex to your temperature sensors or monitoring system as a separate project, priced separately. Without one, staff read the display or a probe and enter the value from a phone, as they do on paper today. Each fridge, freezer and cold room can carry its own expected range, and a reading outside it is flagged the moment it is entered. Every entry is stored with the person and the time.

Can we plan hood cleaning and ice machine descaling?

Yes. Any machine can have a service plan based on the calendar or on run hours, with its own task list and parts. Solmex shows what is due, due soon or overdue in each branch, so extraction cleaning, descaling and dishwasher service stop depending on someone's memory.

Do we have to set up every branch separately?

No. Checklists and service plans are templates. Write the opening check or the fryer service once and assign it to the same machines in every branch. When you change the template, every branch uses the new version. Each branch is a location on one register, with its own open jobs and costs.

How long does it take to get started?

Most groups start with one branch in a day. Import the equipment list from Excel, set up the opening check and the main service plans, and put QR labels on the machines. Then copy the same setup to the other branches. Every new account gets 14 days of the Business plan free, with no card needed.