FreshLoc
Testimonials
 Copperas
Cove Independent School District serves
primarily the families in and around Ft.
Hood, the world's largest training post. Not
surprisingly, the district's standards are
high, and the staff is held closely
accountable for quality and service.
Recently, John Constancio, the district's
Foodservice Director, improved his control
and management of the district's Cold Chain
by deploying FreshLoc Technologies in
all the schools.
In 2004, Constancio began
looking for a way to automate monitoring for
all his coolers and freezers, in order to
meet the state's requirement of having a food safety
plan in place for the 2005-06 school year.
He found a system, but discovered it would
require additional power runs, which would
involve additional manpower and expense.
Searching for a wireless option, he
encountered FreshLoc.
The FreshLoc wireless
sensors gave him much more flexibility.
"Using one warehouseman, FreshLoc installed
13 schools in one day," he marvels. "In two
more days, we were operational, and I was
able to view my stats online."
Constancio likes the way
FreshLoc reports integrate easily into his
HACCP plan, and he enjoys knowing the record
will be there when the health inspector asks
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 Manor ISD
In 2004, the Texas
Agriculture Department generated news by
launching a major initiative to reduce junk
food in schools. The Square Meal program
created ripples throughout the state, as
dietitians and foodservice directors
scrambled to add fresh produce and
unprocessed meals to cafeteria offerings.
George Townsend, Director of Food Service
for the Manor schools outside of Austin,
realized that all this fresh food would
entail some additional risk, and while
others thumbed organic cookbooks he began to
look for ways to beef up food safety.
For some time, Townsend had
been bothered by the limits of his
refrigeration system. "It's 'the unknown',"
he muses, "that's what happens in your
freezers in the middle of the night. I
wanted to be able to relax on vacation,
knowing if a cooler or freezer went out, we
wouldn't wait until someone happened
to walk by and hear the alarm before we knew
something was wrong."
Enter FreshLoc. Townsend
installed a couple of FreshLoc sensors in
each of his five schools and the central
distribution facility. From his computer, he
can now check all of his perishables, and of
course, if any temperature gets out of the
safe zone, he receives an immediate alert,
"Since we put the system in a few months
ago, I've already had a couple of saves," he
comments.
For instance, there was the
freezer that was defrosting longer than
specified, shutting off for two hours
instead of fifteen minutes. Because the unit
automatically refroze, no one would have
realized the problem without an alert from
FreshLoc.
Early in George Townsend's
career his commercial experience at Luby's
and Aramark showed him the benefits of
process management.
"What sets FreshLoc apart
are the reports," he explains. "When I am
responsible for 3,000 kids every day, I need
to be able to prove that I'm doing all I can
to protect them."
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