Allergen and nutritional database auto-updating

Purpose

1.1. Automate the updating of allergen and nutritional databases for fondue restaurant menus to maintain food compliance, safety, accurate labeling, customer information, and avoid legal penalties.
1.2. Automating ingestion of vendor nutritional sheets, regulatory updates, and menu changes into a central database for real-time updates.
1.3. Automate dissemination of updated information to POS, kitchen displays, and customer-facing systems in compliance with food labeling laws.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Automatedly triggers when menu items or ingredients are changed in the inventory/ERP system.
2.2. Scheduled automations run hourly, daily, or with data feed receipt from suppliers.
2.3. Triggers by regulatory feed/API indicating allergen change (e.g., new law or recall alert).
2.4. Manual override or ‘emergency update’ submission by compliance manager.

Platform Variants

3.1. Google Sheets
• Automate via Apps Script: auto-import CSV/API data and run scripts to update allergen/nutritional columns.
3.2. Microsoft Power Automate
• Automator: configure flows to watch SharePoint/OneDrive for ingredient sheet uploads, triggering automated update to SQL or Excel.
3.3. Airtable
• Automation: uses base sync and script automations to process ingredient changes and update allergens.
3.4. Zapier
• Action: automates API fetch from suppliers, pushes data to central database automatically.
3.5. Make (Integromat)
• Scenario: automates multi-step fetch-transform-load from supplier API to restaurant systems.
3.6. AWS Lambda
• Function: automate serverless function to monitor S3 for uploads, triggering data processing and update.
3.7. Azure Logic Apps
• Workflow: automates detection of new files/feeds, transforms, and updates SQL or CosmosDB store.
3.8. FoodData Central API (USDA)
• API: fetches regulatory ingredient data for automated updates.
3.9. MongoDB Realm Triggers
• Trigger: automates action on data write or insert to process allergen/nutritional changes.
3.10. Postgres with pg_cron
• Extension: automate periodic ingestion and SQL update jobs for the allergen database.
3.11. Slack
• Workflow: sends automated notifications to compliance team on allergen/nutritional update.
3.12. Twilio
• SMS API: automatedly alerts staff or compliance officer about critical allergen updates.
3.13. Tableau
• Web Data Connector/API automation: visualizes live allergen data, refreshed by triggered flows.
3.14. Power BI
• Dataflow: automates refresh of reports from updated allergen/nutritional databases.
3.15. SAP Business One
• DI API: automator fetches ingredient change events, automatedly writes to master data tables.
3.16. Oracle REST Data Services
• API: endpoint triggers automated ingestion of new nutritional/allergen data.
3.17. Workato
• Recipe: automates process flows ingesting, transforming, updating nutritional/allergen info.
3.18. Salesforce
• Flow Builder: automates customer notification or menu update based on ingredient change.
3.19. Jira
• Automation: creates/updates task for compliance issues from automatable detection of allergen changes.
3.20. GitHub Actions
• Workflow: automates test/validate/nutritional JSON or YAML config on commit; pushes updates to live systems.
3.21. CSV File Watchers (ActiveBatch, cron, or custom)
• Automator: detects upload events to specified folder, automates flow to parse and ingest data.

Benefits

4.1. Automated compliance with evolving food safety laws through instant allergen/nutritional data updates.
4.2. Eliminates human error via workflow automation, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
4.3. Rapid incident response due to automatable alerts/updates on allergen changes.
4.4. Scalability, enabling automated updates across multi-location restaurant chains.
4.5. Reduces administrative overhead via automated and automatable data workflows.