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Group recipes and prep

What head office looks after on a group dish or prep item, what stays yours, and how to declare a local variant when your kitchen uses a different ingredient.

Recipes and prep

Record what goes into each dish and prep item, so allergens, shelf life and labels follow the ingredients. Gains show at once; removals wait for you to confirm.

The group food library

Share dishes, prep items, the products in them and whole menus from the organisation library to your businesses. Updates go live at once and each business acknowledges them.

When head office changes an allergen

An allergen head office adds shows at once at every linked business. A removal waits for a person at each business. What to reprint, and who to tell.

Acknowledging a group update

An update from head office is already live at your business. Check what changed, reprint what is on paper, tell the team, and acknowledge it within 7 days.

Group menus

Head office shares one menu with chosen businesses or a brand. Each business keeps its own sites, served times and page, can add local specials, and checks new dishes before they show.

When a delivery brings a substitute for a group product

A supplier sends something else instead of a product head office looks after. Check its allergens, then choose: no change, add its allergens here, or use it as a local variant.

Organisation Roles

Admin, Library editor, Brand manager and Area manager, and how brand and area managers become managers in the businesses they cover.

Allergen menus: a guide for each menu

Give each menu its own allergen chart, export, public page and QR code, so guests see the dishes that are actually being served.

The Organisation Library

Keep master HACCP plans, SFBB packs, risk assessments, SOPs, documents and routines in one library, starting from what businesses already have.

Switching Between Businesses & Adding a New One

Use the business switcher to move between businesses you belong to, and add a new business with its own billing.

Paddy in an Organisation

What Paddy answers on the organisation's pages, writes in its library and answers inside a member business, what it never sees, and actions you confirm on a card.

Allergen Matrix

Build an accurate allergen matrix with AI, track may-contain and removable allergens, import in bulk, export it, and keep it current.

Preparing for an EHO / Inspection Visit

Readiness in the weeks before, the EHO visit page on the day, and the Audit Pack when they want a file.

Licensing Records

The weekly licensing check, Challenge 25 training and your licence documents, and the incidents a licensing officer will ask about.

Mapping Square locations to your sites

Pair each Square location with the Paddl site it feeds, and what happens to the locations you leave unmapped.

Telling your team about an allergen change

Send your team one message about an allergen change from head office when you acknowledge an update or confirm a removal.

Sharing products across your group

How a product from head office arrives at your business with its spec sheet and its supplier, and what to check when it does.

Confirming an allergen removal from head office

When head office removes an allergen from a group dish or product, your business keeps showing it until an owner or a manager for the whole business confirms.

Inspection Readiness

One ring per inspector, one page per inspector grouped by what they score, your visits and internal audits, and the audit pack from the header.

The group food view

The Food tab on your organisation home: where each business stands with the group's dishes, products and menus, and what is waiting there.

Creating an Organisation and Adding Businesses

Create an organisation from All businesses, add the businesses you own, invite franchisees, and what happens when a business leaves.

Publishing an Update to a Master

Change a master, publish the update with a change note, choose who gets it, and make it Required with a due date and locked sections.

Reviewing an Organisation Update

For businesses: review an update from your organisation section by section, take or keep each one, and see what is locked.