Lemon

What Lemon is

Lemon is a food safety and HACCP record-keeping app for UK kitchens, including restaurants, cafés, pubs and takeaways. Teams can log fridge, freezer, hot-hold, cooking, cooling and reheating temperatures against safe limits, and use opening, closing, cleaning and custom checklists. A weekly EHO checklist is available. Delivery records capture supplier details, temperatures, packaging and whether goods were accepted or rejected. Each record identifies who entered it, and records can be exported as PDFs for inspection. Managers can enable a dish-by-dish matrix for the 14 regulated allergens and share it as a PDF. Staff training covers food hygiene, allergen awareness and food safety management, with progress records and completion certificates; these are not accredited or regulated qualifications. The Records and training plan costs £19 a month per location and includes unlimited team members and exports. A 14-day trial is available, but there is no free plan. Lemon needs an internet connection to reliably load and save records; it records food-safety work but does not generate a HACCP plan or certify legal compliance.

Who it suits

Lemon suits UK food businesses that need to keep temperature, delivery, checklist, allergen and staff-training records. Its per-location pricing and unlimited team members may suit kitchens working with a team.

Limits

There is no free plan; the listed plan costs £19 a month per location. Reliable recording requires an internet connection, and the app records food-safety work without generating a HACCP plan or certifying legal compliance.

Getting started

1. Open the Lemon website
2. Start the 14-day trial
3. Choose the Records and training plan
4. Use Lemon on the web, Android or iOS
5. Add team members to the location
6. Create temperature records, checklists and training activities

Verdict

Lemon brings common food-safety records, allergen information and staff training into one app. Consider its internet requirement and the distinction between record-keeping and a HACCP plan before choosing it.