Keep Track of What Matters Most

Making up 12% of the small business market, food and beverage is the largest small business industry.¹ And, while every food and beverage business is unique, they all share some fundamental challenges like protecting temperature-sensitive inventory, managing staff access, and monitoring occupancy and wait times.

Alarm.com for Business has the technology to address these issues and more with security systems for small businesses and commercial temperature monitoring tools so you can keep track of what matters most.  

Employees opening late and closing early is, on average, the most frequent costly event facing food and beverage businesses—costing over $500 per incident each year.²

Keep an Eye on Employees

Effectively manage numerous employees and waitstaff from wherever you are with the Alarm.com app. With 24/7 surveillance, you can monitor employee performance to ensure they’re completing daily tasks on time.

Reduce Waste and Costs

According to FeedingAmerica.org, U.S. restaurants generate an estimated 22 to 33 billion pounds of food waste each year. Alarm.com business temperature monitoring systems alert you to drops in temperature, helping reduce product spoilage.

Put Your Customers First

Provide exceptional customer satisfaction by establishing clean areas and tracking average wait times with queue monitoring and Business Activity Analytics. And, make sure food is up to standards by keeping an eye on storage areas that contain temperature-sensitive items.

The all-in-one solution for intrusion detection, access, video, and more.

Alarm.com essential systems communicate and work together, resulting in more insight and control with less onsite equipment to maintain. Use our cloud-based technology and intuitive interfaces to streamline smarter management of your food and beverage business. 

Roughly ¾ of food and beverage businesses report that tracking occupancy levels is a “very” valuable capability.³

Business Activity Analytics is a new way to manage your food and beverage operations and protect your properties using your commercial security camera system. By creating and using rules around movement or group gatherings, business owners can transform the way they protect their business and gather information to make informed decisions. 

Occupancy Tracking
Use virtual tripwires to determine total net occupancy at any given time with multidirectional counting and get alerts when occupancy is too high.

People Counting
Draw a tripwire anywhere within the property to count how many people cross that invisible line in one direction.

Heat Mapping
Draw a ground zone to track and visualize where people spend the most time within your business during a specified date and time range.

Crowd Gathering
Draw a ground zone and count how many people are in a seating area at any given point and get alerts when too many people gather in a defined area.

Queue Monitoring
Draw a ground zone to count how many people are waiting in line at the register or to pick up their order and measure their average wait time. Get alerts if the queue length or average wait time exceeds preset limits.
Alarm.com’s cloud-managed video surveillance combines cloud storage, 24/7 health monitoring, and intelligent analytics to ensure footage is available when managers or operators need it most—and can be easily found and shared.

Commercial security cameras and features built to meet the unique needs of a food and beverage business include:
- Commercial-grade PoE cameras with varifocal lens options, so zooming in on your cash registers or incidents with crystal clarity is easier than ever
- Multiple options for indoor and outdoor use
- 24/7 onboard or local recording options for large or small operations
- 4MP recording options for increased clarity
- Waterproof, dust-tight, and impact-resistant
Alarm.com’s exclusive Business Activity Analytics technology uses a series of advanced video analytics rules that can help you improve business operations. Proactive alerts and insightful reports help food and beverage managers gain a deep understanding of traffic patterns within their lobbies, dining areas, and back of the house spaces like the kitchen.
On average, food and beverage businesses spend roughly $800 for their temperature monitoring system.⁴

Extend property protection to temperature-controlled assets with a business temperature monitoring system. Alarm.com’s Smarter Business Temperature Monitoring* offers real-time alerts and historical temperature reports, ideal for single and multi-location food and beverage businesses—especially businesses that need to keep track of refrigerator temperature and freezer temperature to reduce spoilage of products.
- Temperature monitoring dashboard: View real-time sensor temperatures at one or multiple locations.
- Out-of-range alerts: Receive email, SMS and push alerts triggered by customizable temperature limits.
- Historical reporting: Schedule daily, weekly, or monthly historical temperature reports.
*Alarm.com's Smarter Business Temperature Monitoring comes included with our commercial security system.
The Alarm.com Enterprise Dashboard is a single, intuitive interface for real-time management of intrusion, energy, door access, and video systems across multiple food service business locations.

It’s easy to manage your business access control and ensure that everyone has the right level of access by editing permissions when necessary—in real time from the easy-to-use app or your computer. Apply group-wide settings and rules to save time and increase consistency.
- Manage user codes, card access, and system login permissions in bulk across groups or locations.
- Add or revoke user codes, card access, and system login permissions in real time—from managers to delivery personnel.
Get real-time control of alarm arming state, door locks schedules, thermostat set points and more for all your food and beverage business locations.
- Change thermostat set points remotely or automate based on arming status.
- Reduce energy costs with local lock-out thermostat restrictions.
- Lock and unlock doors at set times or in real time.
Whether your food and beverage business only has a few doors or hundreds, Alarm.com’s access control systems for business have you covered. Our commercial access control technology seamlessly integrates into our unified, cloud-based security platform, allowing you to secure your business from wherever you are.
- Lock, unlock, and buzz doors open from anywhere using the app or website.  
- Easily add and revoke mobile lock control permissions to ensure the right people have access.  
- Receive video doorbell calls and buzz the door open right from the video call screen to let employees or deliveries in remotely. 
Investigations, Reporting, and Awareness
Proactive notifications can alert you when a delivery driver badges in from returning from a delivery, so you know the delivery has been made. Find important events, quickly in real time, or through scheduled reports.
- Filter activity and access video clips of alarms, invalid door access attempts, arming actions, sensor activity, and more.
- Review and download recorded video footage from anywhere at any time.
- View up to 12 months of event history, filterable and exportable.
- Schedule group activity summary reports for open and close times, cooler temperature history, door access, and more.
Dependable Managed Cloud Service
Alarm.com is a managed service platform that supports millions of properties worldwide. Our 24/7 team works relentlessly to improve the software experience, maintain service reliability, and ensure always-up-to-date device firmware.
- Automatic over-the-air device firmware updates and security patches.
- No local software to manage.
- 24/7 health monitoring and alerts.