The register knows what you own, who sold it to you, when the warranty runs out and when it was last serviced. So the right number gets called, and the service that keeps the warranty valid does not get forgotten.

A spreadsheet of serial numbers is not an asset register, because nobody opens it at the moment the fryer stops working. This one is opened at exactly that moment, because it is where the fault gets reported.
Anyone can raise it. Managers see the whole list, assign an owner and close it off, and the history stays attached to the piece of equipment rather than to whoever happened to remember.


Reported in seconds from the phone in someone's pocket, assigned to a person, tracked to a cost, and linked to the exact piece of equipment it happened to.
Two things that live nowhere in most pubs: a directory of who to ring out of hours, and proof that the weekly clean-down actually happened.
Every contractor with their call-out fee, their emergency number and their Gas Safe or NICEIC registration. New trades add themselves through a public link and arrive pending your approval.

The reason maintenance software rarely sticks in a pub is not that operators do not care about their equipment. It is that a standalone maintenance app is one more login, and the moment a fault needs reporting is the moment nobody has time to find it. So the fault gets shouted across the kitchen, and the only record of it is that someone remembers.
Putting it in the system people are already signed into changes that. The chef reporting a fridge running warm is already in Hendra One logging the temperature that told them so. The same org chart that decides who approves a holiday decides who gets told about the fault, and the equipment the fault is against is the same equipment the compliance module is taking readings from.
Maintenance, equipment and contractors are part of Hendra One at the same flat £100 per site per month, alongside bookings, compliance and rotas and team.
The equipment register holds the warranty date and the supplier alongside the item. While a piece of kit is in warranty the record shows the number to call for a warranty repair rather than the general contractor, so the £400 call-out never gets booked in the first place.
It chases. Each item has a service interval and a due date, with a company-wide dashboard of what is overdue, due in the next 30 days and due in the next 60. Reminder emails go out, and there is a Monday digest of anything overdue.
Yes. There is a public sign-up link you can give a new trade. They fill in their own details, including Gas Safe or NICEIC numbers, and the record arrives pending your approval rather than going live unchecked.
They are different registers for different jobs. Maintenance covers equipment, faults, services and contractors. Compliance covers food safety, fire, accidents and COSHH. Both are included at the same flat price, and both escalate by role from the same org chart.
A 30-minute walkthrough with someone who has run a service, not a sales deck.