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title: "Why Franchise Brands Are Instituting New Compliance Measures"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/846d1239-6f80-4439-bec1-268f0c1176b0
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/why-franchise-brands-are-instituting-new-compliance-measures-2716826
category: "Franchise Industry"
industry: "Franchise Industry"
topics: ["Regulation & legal"]
published: 2021-10-07T16:11:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T01:20:43.611Z
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# Why Franchise Brands Are Instituting New Compliance Measures

**TL;DR:** Hy-Vee has implemented a new compliance program using ComplianceMate to track food safety risk, and this approach can serve as a model for the franchising industry. The system can alert management of potentially unsafe food before it is served to the public.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2021-10-07. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/why-franchise-brands-are-instituting-new-compliance-measures-2716826).*

## Story

On Tuesday, QSR Magazine highlighted how Hy-Vee , an employee-owned grocery chain in the Midwest, has implemented a new compliance program. The brand is introducing a new system called ComplianceMate , a “highly customizable food safety management software that automatically tracks key indicators of food safety risk.”

It’s no easy task to implement a system like this for a company that employs over 80,000 workers, but it’s also dangerous to evade health and safety — especially after a global pandemic has put it at the forefront of people’s minds.

The franchising industry can look to Hy-Vee and its new compliance system as a model for risk management. The same ComplianceMate service has already been implemented at Five Guys locations across the country.

New compliance measures could end up costing franchisees a little more in initial startup costs, but it could also help preserve the reputation of a franchise brand and help a business thrive with greater peace of mind. If a potential recall is caught before going to market, a brand can avoid the public backlash that comes with putting consumers at risk.

Just as Hy-Vee is investing in long-term food compliance, franchises could also find themselves investing in long-term safety strategies. A franchise model has the ability to prove a system far more than an independent business too, as a corporate office has the ability to research, develop, experiment and implement a well-defined compliance system.

To that end, it might be safer to own a franchise than an independent business, given the attention to detail that a corporate office can put on compliance measures without taking away from day-to-day operations as a business owner.

While Hy-Vee itself is not a franchise, the brand’s approach to health and safety can show how a Franchise Disclosure Document is bound to change in the coming years. Hy-Vee anticipates putting ComplianceMate in all of its nearly 500 units, and other brands can anticipate similar systems, in multiple industries, on a similar scale, for similar purposes.

QSR Magazine said the ComplianceMate system is geared to “alert any level of management – from store level to corporate offices – of potentially unsafe food before the food is served to the public.” The system can collect a wide range of data on food products, and this compliance strategy shows that businesses have little room for error when it comes to health and safety management.

Implementing a system like this could save loads of money and reputation if it works the way it is supposed to.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Franchise Industry (sector)
- QSR Magazine (publication)
- franchise model (topic)
- Five Guys (company)
- food safety (topic)
- risk management (topic)
- Hy-Vee (company)
- compliance measures (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/why-franchise-brands-are-instituting-new-compliance-measures-2716826). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/846d1239-6f80-4439-bec1-268f0c1176b0).