Compare Safe Food Pro vs Food Safety NZ

Safe Food Pro digitises your entire Food Control Plan into an automated, software-led platform with real-time reporting. Food Safety NZ (BurnsFulton) offers a consultant-led service pairing a basic app with ongoing advisor support. Safe Food Pro is ideal for operations scaling across New Zealand.

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What is Safe Food Pro?

Safe Food Pro is a specialised New Zealand food safety compliance platform that digitises your Food Control Plan. Built for hospitality, aged care, food manufacturing, and multi-site operators, it replaces manual paperwork with real-time operational oversight, wireless monitoring, and direct verifier-readiness.

Benefits of Safe Food Pro

  • Automated Data Capture: Seamlessly integrates continuous wireless temperature sensors and Bluetooth probes straight into daily forms.
  • Real-Time Visibility: Offers instant oversight across single or multi-site venues with automated missed-task escalations and dynamic corrective action workflows.
  • MPI-Aligned Setup: Features a guided onboarding wizard to configure your plan against MPI Simple Safe and Suitable templates, National Programmes (1-3), or custom HACCP plans.

What is Food Safety NZ?

Food Safety NZ (BurnsFulton) is a Christchurch-based compliance service that bundles a basic paperless record-keeping app with ongoing consultant advisory services. It combines food safety and health and safety into one subscription.

Benefits of Safe Food Pro

  • Consultant Access: Includes direct access to named food safety and health and safety consultants for advice, setup, and annual plan reviews.
  • Bundled Compliance: Merges food safety tracking with basic health and safety forms in a single membership fee.
  • Target Audience: Designed primarily as an affordable option for small, single-site owner-operators who want a human consultant on call.

Compare Safe Food Pro vs Food Safety NZ

Choosing between Safe Food Pro and Food Safety NZ comes down to whether your business requires an advanced, software-driven system or a consultant-led record keeper. Safe Food Pro scales with your operational complexity, whereas BurnsFulton relies heavily on manual input supported by external advisors.

  • Core Focus: Safe Food Pro is dedicated software backed by a full customer success team. BurnsFulton is a consultant relationship with a light app attached.
  • Hardware Integration: Safe Food Pro connects directly to continuous fridge/freezer sensors and Bluetooth temperature probes. BurnsFulton does not publicly offer continuous automated hardware integration.
  • Corrective Actions: Safe Food Pro automatically triggers assigned corrective action workflows and task escalations when checks fail. BurnsFulton relies on manual follow-ups.

Considering Safe Food Pro as an alternative to Food Safety NZ?

Safe Food Pro provides superior technical depth, operational automation, and multi-site management compared to BurnsFulton.

Feature Safe Food Pro Food Safety NZ (BurnsFulton)
MPI Food Control Plan & NP Support
Continuous Wireless Sensors
Bluetooth Probe Integration
Automated Corrective Actions & Escalations
Multi-Site Group Dashboard
Custom Drag-and-Drop Form Builder
Dedicated Customer Success Team
Dedicated H&S Product Suite Available Site App Pro Bundled

Why should you choose Safe Food Pro over Food Safety NZ?

Safe Food Pro gives growing food businesses total control over their food safety compliance without relying on external advice to catch daily mistakes.

  • Prevent Costly Stock Loss: Continuous 24/7 wireless temperature monitoring alerts your team the moment a chiller fails, preventing expensive stock spoilage before doors open.
  • Eliminate Audit Anxiety: Verifier-ready reporting allows auditors to inspect clear, tamper-proof digital logs, Bluetooth probe records, and completed corrective action trails instantly.
  • Scale Effortlessly Across Sites: Centralised group dashboards allow head office or regional managers to roll out plan updates instantly and compare compliance rates across every location.

Food safety management software for food and hospitality businesses.

  • New Zealand's own food control plan software
  • Free 14-day trial - no credit card required
  • Form upload in seconds
  • Onboarding wizard builds your food plan using MPI requirements
  • No setup or onboarding fees
  • Localised support
  • Food safety app
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Frequently Asked Questions

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Yes, Safe Food Pro aligns directly with Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) regulations and is widely used across New Zealand to provide verifiers with clear, accurate, and instant compliance records.

Yes, through our other platform, Site App Pro, we provide purpose-built Health and Safety software. This ensures you get deep, specialised tools for both disciplines rather than a compromised all-in-one app. 

Transitioning is simple. Our MPI-aligned wizard builder and dedicated New Zealand customer success team will help migrate your existing Food Control Plan, staff details, and custom checks so you can be up and running seamlessly.