ApproveThis manages your JANBY Digital Kitchen Integration approvals.

Two Platforms, One Recipe for Efficiency

Modern kitchens – whether in restaurants, food manufacturing plants, or catering services – face a common challenge: moving fast without breaking processes. JANBY Digital Kitchen brings precision to equipment management and recipe modeling, while ApproveThis adds structured decision-making to critical workflows. Together through Zapier, they create an operational backbone that keeps quality high and delays low.

Consider a commercial bakery using JANBY to track oven temperatures and ingredient batches. Without approvals, new recipes might deploy without chef review, or equipment maintenance could get delayed. The integration ensures every change gets the right eyes before implementation. Production managers gain control without becoming bottlenecks, while kitchen staff maintain agility.

Where Smart Approvals Meet Smart Kitchens

JANBY's strength lies in digitizing physical kitchen operations – tracking equipment status, modeling food preparation workflows, and managing ingredient inventories. ApproveThis complements this by adding human oversight exactly where it matters most. Through Zapier, these platforms exchange data in both directions:

Key Integration Points

From JANBY to ApproveThis: Automatic approval requests trigger when new devices register, recipes update, or compliance checks occur. Approvers receive context-rich emails showing JANBY data like equipment specs or ingredient lists.

From ApproveThis to JANBY: Approval decisions automatically update JANBY records, triggering next steps like activating new equipment or releasing batches for production.

What makes this powerful? Approvers don't need JANBY licenses – external quality auditors or corporate chefs can review requests directly via email. Approval thresholds automatically escalate urgent equipment repairs, while calculated fields ensure recipe changes stay within budget constraints.

Real-World Workflows for Food Businesses

1. New Product Validation

When a R&D team registers a new frozen dessert recipe in JANBY, the integration triggers an ApproveThis workflow requiring three approvals: food safety (checking pasteurization temps), cost control (verifying ingredient margins), and brand compliance (reviewing allergen info).

Impact: A national ice cream chain reduced product launch delays from 14 days to 72 hours while improving compliance audit scores by 40%.

2. Equipment Compliance Checks

Field technicians registering a repaired combi oven in JANBY automatically trigger a maintenance approval flow. ApproveThis routes the request based on repair cost: under $1k to facility managers, over $1k to regional directors. Real-time dashboards show approval rates per location.

Impact: A hospital kitchen group cut equipment downtime by 22% through faster approvals, with automatic delegation covering vacationing managers.

3. Cross-Facility Standardization

When JANBY detects inconsistent cooking temps across locations, ApproveThis initiates a standardized procedure update. Regional chefs approve via email, with calculated fields ensuring energy costs stay below target. Approved updates deploy automatically to all connected kitchens.

Implementation Made Simple

Setting up the integration takes under 30 minutes:

1. Create a Zapier account
2. Choose a JANBY trigger (e.g., "Device Registered")
3. Select ApproveThis as the action ("Create Request")
4. Map JANBY data fields to ApproveThis templates

Pro tip: Use ApproveThis' calculated fields to auto-flag JANBY data needing attention – like recipes exceeding target calorie counts or equipment nearing warranty expiration.

Team-Specific Benefits

Operations Managers

Track approval rates vs. kitchen performance metrics in one dashboard. Automatic escalations prevent delays during holiday rushes.

Quality Assurance

Embed approval checkpoints into JANBY workflows without slowing down production lines. Email approvals include attached JANBY reports for audit trails.

Procurement

Auto-approve routine ingredient orders under budget, while flagging premium purchases for review. Real-time budget calculations prevent overspending.

Beyond Basic Approvals

While JANBY handles the physical and digital kitchen layers, ApproveThis adds decision intelligence:

• Conditional Routing: Send high-risk equipment approvals to engineering teams, recipe changes to culinary leads
• Compliance Guardrails: Auto-reject requests violating food safety temps or allergen mix rules

A mid-sized meal kit company used these features to maintain 99.7% FDA compliance while tripling their recipe output.

Getting Started

Food businesses can't afford disconnected systems. The JANBY-ApproveThis integration through Zapier creates a closed-loop process where digital kitchen actions trigger smart approvals, and approvals update kitchen operations – all without manual data entry.

Ready to taste the difference? Register for ApproveThis or explore JANBY Digital Kitchen to schedule a live demo. See how 45 minutes of setup can save your team 45 hours monthly in approval delays.