Making food streets certification-ready.
Quality Cook is a civic-technology platform that helps street-food vendors meet FSSAI hygiene standards — through trained student survey teams who capture field readiness data and hand it to the food-safety department, not around it.
A readiness layer — not another registry.
India's food-safety systems record compliance. Quality Cook prepares for it. We focus on the ground-level work that no official system is staffed to do: assessing vendors against the Clean Street Food Hub checklist, closing the gaps that would fail an audit, and delivering structured, verifiable readiness data.
The result is a food street that walks into certification already compliant — and a food-safety department that gains reliable ground-truth without adding to its officers' inspection load.
Three roles, one verified system.
Food Safety Officers
Oversight, approvals, and district-level readiness analytics — scoped to their own jurisdiction.
Student Survey Teams
Trained field surveyors, onboarded through college partnerships, who assess vendors and capture readiness data on the ground.
Vendors
Guided support to understand requirements and become certification-ready.
Next phaseAssess. Ready. Hand off.
Assess
Student teams survey vendors in the field against the FSSAI Clean Street Food Hub checklist, capturing evidence as they go.
Ready
Gaps are scored on the national compliance scale and closed — so a hub reaches its audit already meeting the benchmark.
Hand off
Structured readiness data is prepared to feed the food-safety department's own systems — supporting certification, not duplicating it.
Built to fit the ecosystem.
Quality Cook is an independent civic-technology initiative. It is designed to support — and does not replace or represent — official food-safety authorities or their systems.
Working with Tamil Nadu's food-safety ecosystem.
For partnership, pilot, or institutional enquiries, we'd be glad to talk.