Lemon
Lemon is a food-safety and HACCP record-keeping app for UK kitchens, including restaurants, cafés, pubs, and takeaways.
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. Opening, closing, cleaning, and custom checklists are supported, with a weekly EHO checklist ready to use. Delivery records capture suppliers, temperatures, packaging, and acceptance or rejection decisions. Entries show who recorded them and can be exported as PDFs for inspection. Managers can enable a dish-by-dish matrix covering the 14 regulated allergens and share it as a PDF. Training covers food hygiene, allergen awareness, and food safety management, with progress records and completion certificates; certificates are not accredited qualifications. The Records and training plan costs £19 a month per location and includes unlimited team members and exports. Lemon runs on web, iOS, and Android, offers a 14-day trial, and has no free plan.
Good
- Logs multiple food temperatures
- Includes opening and cleaning checklists
- Exports records as inspection PDFs
- Provides an allergen matrix
- Unlimited team members per location
Watch out
- Requires internet to reliably save records
- Does not create a HACCP plan
- Certificates are not accredited qualifications
- No free plan
Who it suits
Lemon suits UK food-service teams that need digital temperature logs, checklists, delivery records, allergen information, and staff training. It can also help operators preparing records for inspections across supported locations.
Verdict
Lemon organizes everyday food-safety records, checklists, allergen information, and training in one app. It records compliance work but does not produce a HACCP plan or confirm legal compliance.
Plans and prices
From Lemon's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Records and training | £19 a month | Food safety records · staff training · unlimited team members · all exports · per location, per month; cancel anytime |
The facts
Each one read from Lemon's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Allergen matrix
- Managers can enable an optional dish-by-dish matrix for the 14 regulated allergens and share it as a PDF.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Audit records
- Records include the name of the person who entered them and can be exported as PDFs for inspection.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Checklists
- The app supports opening, closing, cleaning and custom checklists, with a weekly EHO checklist ready to use.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Deliveries
- Delivery records can capture suppliers, temperatures, packaging and whether goods were accepted or rejected.checked 8 Oct 2026
- HACCP scope
- Lemon records food-safety work but does not generate a HACCP plan or certify that a kitchen complies with the law.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Multi-site availability
- The group workspace is planned and under development with pilot customers; group pricing and scope are agreed separately.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Offline limit
- Lemon does not provide durable offline recording and needs an internet connection to reliably load and save records.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Lemon is a food safety and HACCP record-keeping app for UK kitchens, including restaurants, cafés, pubs and takeaways.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Staff training
- Training includes food hygiene, allergen awareness and food safety management courses, progress records and completion certificates.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Temperature records
- Teams can log fridge, freezer, hot-hold, cooking, cooling and reheating temperatures against safe limits.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Training certificate limit
- Course completion certificates are not accredited or regulated qualifications.checked 8 Oct 2026
The company
- Company
- Lemon is operated by Lemon App OÜ, an Estonian company; its About page says it started in Edinburgh in 2023.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Tallinn, Estoniachecked 28 Sep 2026
- Team access
- All plans include unlimited team members, and the subscription is priced per location rather than per user.checked 8 Oct 2026
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