1. Essentials
Your First Step Toward Digital Food Safety
The Essentials Starter Package is the ideal entry point for businesses ready to modernise their food safety practices without a large upfront investment.
Built around MFC Safe’s Didge Platform and the Ridgy Vision AI system, this package empowers your team to capture, record, and manage food safety data digitally — simply, affordably, and intelligently.
What’s Included
Access to the Didge Platform — full access to the Ridgy Vision AI system for digital food safety records
One User Login — start small and scale up as your confidence grows
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) — use your own Android device to run the Didge app (downloadable via Google Play)
One-Hour Online Training Session — learn how to use the system effectively with live guidance from the MFC Safe team
Ridgy System Modules:
Incoming Goods — capture supplier deliveries with photo and AI recognition
Stock Controller — manage and verify food stock rotation and traceability
Approved Suppliers — maintain verified supplier lists
Cold Story — record and verify cold storage conditions
Cook — track cooking compliance and verification steps
Cook Chill — monitor cook-chill procedures
Best Served Hot — manage hot-holding checks
Best Served Cold — record cold-holding checks
Calibration — ensure equipment calibration is tracked and recorded
Corrective Actions — document and manage non-compliance or deviations
No Hardware Required
The Essentials package is completely software-driven — no temperature probes, sensors, or additional hardware are needed.
Your team can immediately start recording and verifying compliance using AI-powered image capture within the Didge app.
For example:
Snap a photo of an incoming goods invoice.
Capture an image of a cold-storage thermometer.
Record visual proof of compliance tasks — all time-stamped and securely stored in the cloud.
Who It’s For
This package is perfect for:
Independent restaurants and cafés
Caterers and small food producers
Franchise or multi-site operators looking to pilot digital food safety in a single location
Businesses wanting to test digital food safety before committing to automated temperature systems
Benefits at a Glance
Simple to start — Download the Didge app, log in, and begin recording.
Low-cost, low-risk — Experience digital transformation without heavy investment.
Smart AI vision — Capture visual records of compliance instantly.
Digital traceability — Replace paper with secure, searchable digital records.
Change management made easy — Trial the MFC system and gauge team adoption.
Scalable foundation — Easily upgrade to automated sensor packages when ready.
Purpose
The Essentials package provides a practical and affordable trial of the MFC Didge Platform.
It’s designed to help businesses assess:
How their team adapts to digital workflows
The ease of recordkeeping and reporting
The benefits of AI-assisted compliance monitoring
This is your first step toward a smarter, safer, and more efficient food safety culture.
Getting Started
Download the Didge app from the Google Play Store.
Receive your user login from the MFC Safe team.
Join a 1-hour online onboarding session.
Start capturing your digital food safety records immediately.
Invest in Change — One Step at a Time
The Essentials Starter Package brings digital food safety within reach of every business.
With no hardware setup and minimal disruption, you can begin experiencing the advantages of the MFC Didge Platform today — confidently, sustainably, and affordably.
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