QSR & Food Franchises
One dashboard for all your locations
Managing multiple franchise locations means juggling security, food safety, and operational consistency. Surety Business gives you Alarm.com's enterprise dashboard to monitor and manage everything from one place.
The specific security demands of food franchise operations
Your corporate field rep calls to schedule a site audit next week. Across your six locations, you need to pull together opening and closing logs, temperature records for all walk-in coolers and freezers, camera coverage documentation, and evidence that security policies are applied consistently. If that documentation lives in paper logs and manual sign-in sheets, the next several days are going to be stressful. Most franchise agreements specify minimum security standards as operating requirements—not suggestions—and franchise audits increasingly review security infrastructure alongside operational metrics. Operators with centralized, documented systems move through audits in hours. Operators without them spend days assembling incomplete records.
FDA Food Safety Modernization Act requirements have expanded temperature documentation expectations for food service. For QSR operators managing multiple locations, consistent temperature logging across all walk-in coolers and freezers—with exportable records for health inspections—is increasingly a compliance requirement rather than a best practice. A walk-in cooler that fails overnight and isn't caught until morning opening can mean $5,000 to $15,000 in spoiled food, plus the health code implications of serving food that may have been improperly stored. A wireless temperature sensor that alerts you at 2am turns that into a compressor service call instead of a food safety incident.
Drive-thru operations carry a specific robbery risk that QSR operators sometimes underestimate because they've become routine. Cash handling at a visible service window, predictable customer flow, and reduced staffing during late-night hours are conditions law enforcement identifies as elevated robbery risk. Camera coverage of drive-thru lanes, exterior entrances, and parking areas—combined with monitored alarm systems for after-hours intrusion—is the baseline security posture every franchise operator should be running across their portfolio, both for protection and for the documentation that franchisor audits increasingly require.
Why franchise operators choose Surety
Centralized oversight
View all locations from one dashboard. Check camera feeds, review alerts, and compare activity across your entire portfolio.
Food safety compliance
Temperature sensors monitor walk-ins and freezers 24/7. Get alerts before equipment failures spoil inventory.
Standardized security
Apply consistent security policies across all locations. Ensure every store arms on time and follows the same procedures.
Solutions for franchise operators
Multi-location dashboard
- All locations visible in one view
- Filter alerts by location or type
- Compare metrics across stores
- Role-based access for district managers
Video surveillance
- Cover drive-thru, counter, and kitchen areas
- Review footage for customer complaints
- Monitor opening and closing procedures
- Cloud storage for easy retrieval
Temperature monitoring
- Wireless sensors for all cold storage
- Alerts when temperatures drift
- Logs for health inspections
- Catch equipment failures early
Access & intrusion
- Track who opens and closes each location
- Scheduled arming ensures stores are secured
- Manage credentials centrally
- 24/7 professional monitoring available
Scale without complexity
Whether you have 3 locations or 30, Surety Business scales with you. Add new locations in minutes, not weeks. Your managers can handle basic equipment installation, and there are no long-term contracts locking you in.