You’re already paying for temperature monitoring. The manual way.
Handwritten temp logs cost real labor hours — and they still miss the failures that spoil inventory. Pick your operation size and compare.
5 units — a typical single-location operation
With 5 units logged by hand twice daily, your team makes 3,650 handwritten entries a year — about 60 labor hours of clipboard time.
What Cooler Alert Costs
$149/month — 5 sensors, 24/7 alerts, automatic temperature logs
What Manual Monitoring Costs You Today
60 hours of staff time at $17/hr spent writing temperatures on clipboards
An estimated 1 unit failure per year goes undetected between manual checks
Total manual cost of $11,020, minus Cooler Alert’s annual price
Where these numbers come from
Manual Monitoring — $11,020/year
- Required entries per day (all units) 10
- Handwritten entries per year 3,650
- Labor hours per year 60 hrs
- Labor cost at $17/hr $1,020
- Spoilage (1 failure/yr avg.) $10,000
Cooler Alert — $1,788/year
- Monthly price $149
- Daily readings recorded automatically 72 per unit
- Staff clipboard time 0 hrs
- Failures caught before spoilage Alerted in minutes
10 units — a high-volume or multi-kitchen operation
Twice-daily manual logs across 10 units means 7,300 handwritten entries a year — 121 hours of paid staff time on clipboards.
What Cooler Alert Costs
$199/month — 10 sensors, 24/7 alerts, automatic temperature logs
What Manual Monitoring Costs You Today
121 hours of staff time at $17/hr — half a month of full-time work
An estimated 2 unit failures per year go undetected between manual checks
Total manual cost of $22,057, minus Cooler Alert’s annual price
Where these numbers come from
Manual Monitoring — $22,057/year
- Required entries per day (all units) 20
- Handwritten entries per year 7,300
- Labor hours per year 121 hrs
- Labor cost at $17/hr $2,057
- Spoilage (2 failures/yr avg.) $20,000
Cooler Alert — $2,388/year
- Monthly price $199
- Daily readings recorded automatically 72 per unit
- Staff clipboard time 0 hrs
- Failures caught before spoilage Alerted in minutes
Up to 25 units — large single-location or institutional operations
At this scale, manual logging is a part-time job: 14,600+ handwritten entries and 243+ staff hours a year — and failures still slip through overnight.
What Cooler Alert Costs
$249/month — up to 25 sensors, 24/7 alerts, automatic temperature logs
What Manual Monitoring Costs You Today
243 hours of staff time at $17/hr — six full work-weeks on clipboards
An estimated 3 unit failures per year go undetected between manual checks
Total manual cost of $34,131, minus Cooler Alert’s annual price
Where these numbers come from
Manual Monitoring — $34,131/year
- Required entries per day (all units) 40
- Handwritten entries per year 14,600
- Labor hours per year 243 hrs
- Labor cost at $17/hr $4,131
- Spoilage (3 failures/yr avg.) $30,000
Cooler Alert — $2,988/year (up to 25 sensors)
- Monthly price $249
- Daily readings recorded automatically 72 per unit
- Staff clipboard time 0 hrs
- Failures caught before spoilage Alerted in minutes
Automated readings per unit per day, compared to 2 manual clipboard checks. Faulty equipment shows up in the data before it fails.
The fine a restaurant can face for a single outbreak in which 5 people get sick — before legal costs and reputation damage.
Monitoring never clocks out. Overnight, weekends, and holidays — the hours when failures do the most damage.
Setup takes minutes. Your first automated log starts the same day.
Sign Up Now →Estimates based on industry-average labor rates, twice-daily manual logging requirements, and refrigeration failure rates reported by large food distributors. Your actual savings will vary with labor costs, inventory value, and equipment condition.