Menu Engineering & Recipe Development Software
Tune your recipes to perfection, roll-out group-wide
Apicbase recipe development software is the nerve centre of your food empire. Your central hub for recipe and menu development, armed with automated food costings, margin controls, nutri-calculations and allergen reporting.
Make your recipes count
Recipes are your core data-set. They fuel all your back of house workflows. Apicbase recipe development software tunes them to perfection.
Manage raw materials
All your ingredients and suppliers in one place; loaded with allergen, packaging and pricing details. Assign assets to individual outlets or deploy group-wide.
Build recipes
Create fully costed and portioned recipes (and sub-recipes) with step-by-step methodologies and dietary info. Tweak to perfection and assign to locations.
Engineer menus
Develop profitable and popular menus for all your concepts, stores and brands. Generate allergen labels and nutri-scores. Put menus into production via auto-generated bills-of-materials.
Create scalable recipes with reliable yields
Recipes are your most valuable asset. Give ’m star quality.
Real-time recipe costing
Apicbase recipe development software aggregates the data and provides an instant recipe and menu cost calculation.
Manage recipes and yield
Engineer your portions. Make the yield per recipe just right. Always hit your menu profit targets.
Production time is key
Add precision to your metrics and SOPs with accurate production timings.
Menu margin calculation
Keep track of product profitability in a single dashboard. Get notified of underperforming items.
Take shrinkage into account
The devil is in the details. Consider a percentage of ingredient wastage to fine-tune your financials.
The single source of truth for your F&B operations
Ensure consistency at every site. Everything your teams need to get the job done is available on a single platform, accessible from anywhere.
Collaborate worldwide
Development teams have a dedicated environment to work on conception, ingredient sourcing, financials and methodologies.
Speed up the validation process
Stakeholders monitor progress in the system. After approval, the new items can be made accessible to production.
Roll out group-wide
Production teams have access to the central database. Updates are instantly reflected throughout the system.
Easy-to-understand prep instructions
Ensure consistency at sites with directions for preparing, finishing and plating dishes, down to the required kitchen utensils.
Multi-site management
Assign ingredients, recipes, menus to specific units, brands or dark kitchen concepts. Keep track of back-of-house performance and sales at every unit.
Manage user permissions
Determine who has access to what. You're always in control. Your IP is protected.
Fuel Workflows With Bulletproof Product Data
F&B managers, the supply chain, production planners & menu engineers, all depend on well-tested, well-costed recipes with reliable yields.
Slash food cost & boost consistency across sites
No more manual calculations or spreadsheet updates
Apicbase recipe development software changes are instantly reflected throughout the system.
Apicbase helps us streamline our back of house operations. It enables us to deliver a consistent product across sites and teams. And we remain in control of CoGS at any given time.
Julian Kirwan
Executive Chef
