Restaurant Security
Protect your kitchen, coolers, and peace of mind
Restaurants have unique risks—from cooler failures that spoil thousands in inventory to after-hours break-ins. Surety Business combines security, temperature monitoring, and video in one platform you control.
The security and compliance landscape restaurants navigate
You walk in Monday morning and your walk-in cooler is at 58 degrees. The compressor failed sometime Sunday night, and everything inside has been sitting in the temperature danger zone for ten hours. The dairy is condemned. The proteins are questionable. You're looking at $4,000 to $8,000 in inventory you can't serve, a health code issue if any of it went out to tables before you caught it, and a service call you're scheduling instead of opening for lunch. A wireless temperature sensor with a 2am alert would have turned this into a 30-minute phone call with a refrigeration technician. FDA Food Safety Modernization Act requirements make temperature logs an increasingly expected part of health inspections—the sensor that saves your inventory also creates the compliance documentation.
Cash handling and POS reconciliation are the most financially significant ongoing loss issue for most independent restaurant operators. A high-volume dinner service runs hundreds of transactions, and POS discrepancies—unauthorized voids, short pours at the bar, employee theft—are nearly impossible to investigate without corresponding video. Camera coverage of register areas and the bar gives you footage to review specific transactions when the nightly count doesn't match. Restaurants that serve alcohol also face dram shop liability: video documentation of service interactions becomes critical evidence in an alcohol-related incident claim, where the question is whether service was appropriate given the customer's apparent state.
Third-party delivery has introduced a back-of-house access challenge that many restaurant operators haven't fully worked through. Drivers from multiple platforms cycle through your kitchen throughout service, with no formal vetting, near your inventory and equipment. Back-door camera coverage of the receiving area—where both delivery drivers and supply vendors come and go—gives you documentation to resolve discrepancies between what was delivered and what your inventory system recorded, and to investigate any after-hours access that shouldn't have happened.
Why restaurants choose Surety
Food safety alerts
Get notified immediately if walk-in cooler or freezer temperatures drift outside safe ranges. Catch equipment failures before you lose inventory.
After-hours security
Professional monitoring protects your restaurant overnight. Verify alarms with video before police are dispatched.
Operational visibility
Check cameras remotely during busy periods. Know who opened and closed the restaurant with activity reports.
Solutions for restaurants
Temperature monitoring
- Wireless sensors for coolers, freezers, and prep areas
- Alerts when temperatures exceed your thresholds
- Temperature logs for health inspections
- Catch compressor failures before food spoils
Video surveillance
- Cover POS, kitchen, storage, and entrances
- Review footage when cash discrepancies occur
- Monitor delivery areas and back doors
- Cloud storage makes retrieval easy
Intrusion detection
- Door sensors on all entry points
- Motion detection after hours
- Glass break protection for windows
- 24/7 professional monitoring available
Energy management
- Smart thermostats reduce HVAC costs
- Schedules match your operating hours
- Adjust remotely on slow days
- See energy usage trends over time
Built for restaurant owners who want control
If you can change a smoke detector battery, you can install temperature sensors and door contacts. Surety provides the same Alarm.com platform used by restaurant chains—with month-to-month pricing and no installer fees.