Food costing software is the ultimate solution to ensure the profitability of your restaurants and give you control over CoGS and resources. Monitor the profit margins of menu items in real-time.
Centralise and optimise. Manage multiple outlets in one dashboard and keep track of performance. Attribute menus and recipes to specific outlets.
Your business is at your fingertips. Count inventory on a tablet, look up sales statistics in a meeting or check orders while on the phone with a supplier.
You are in control. Choose which team member has access to what information. Manage data entry and user rights.
Centralise your food service company's recipe costings, menu details, inventory management, purchasing data and sales analytics in one platform. Get real-time insights on restaurant performance and menu profitability.
Apicbase aggregates the data and provides an instant recipe and menu cost calculation.
Engineer your portions. Make the yield per recipe just right. Always hit your menu profit targets.
Add precision to your metrics and SOPs with accurate production timings.
Keep track of product profitability in a the software's menu engineering dashboard. Get notified of underperforming items.
The devil is in the details. Consider a percentage of ingredient wastage to fine-tune your financials.
Menu costing. Precise calculations of theoretical recipe costs make every item on your menu profitable.
Apicbase's recipe costing software integrates with inventory management to help restaurant managers bridge the gap between theoretical and actual food costs, boosting net profits.
Supplier prices change constantly. Keeping track of changes manually is impossible, but it is really easy with recipe-costing software.
Apicbase food cost software updates all the recipe and menu costs with the most recent ingredient prices. Updating spreadsheets is one more arduous task you can cross off your to-do list.
Are you absolutely sure each dish is hitting its target margin? By the time a menu goes live, the food cost calculations are already outdated. Two months later, there is no relevance to the menu pricing whatsoever.
Apicbase food costing software highlights negative margins as soon as they crop up. So you can take action and secure profitability. That’s a big worry less!
Popular recipes that hardly make a profit are a backhanded compliment. Working hard and not making any money is no fun. Don’t sit around thinking about what to do.
Quickly identify the costly elements in your recipes and find opportunities to tweak ingredients. We are looking at you, edible flowers.
Uncontrolled food waste, theft, over portioning.... are skyrocketing your food costs. Who knows how much revenue is lost by the time you notice something is wrong?
Cross-checking ideal costs with actual costs is extremely time-consuming.
Not with Apicbase; the app compares ideal and actual costs automatically and lets you know when revenue is slipping away. Sit back and watch your revenue grow.
Scared to take action, even if you think it necessary? Changing a single element might affect your entire cost structure. Fear no more.
You can play around with pricing in our food costing software. You'll immediately see the effect of your adjustments in the costs, margins and pricing.
Evaluate changes in a safe environment and feel secure about your food cost choices before they go live.
"Apicbase instantly showed the recipes that didn't yield our target margin. After tweaking ingredients and portions, profitability grew by 11%."
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
Tracking and reporting food costs in Apicbase works like this:
Yes, Apicbase is equipped to handle both allergen information and nutritional value calculations for your recipes, helping you with menu planning and compliance with health regulations.
Allergen Tracking: Apicbase allows you to input allergen information for each ingredient used in your recipes. Your suppliers provide the information and you upload the Excel. When the allergen information isn’t provided, you can choose to pull the data from the integrated allergen databases is Apicbase.Â
When a recipe is created or updated, the software automatically aggregates the allergen data from all included ingredients and flags any potential allergens present in the final dish.
This feature is crucial for ensuring customer safety and meeting regulatory requirements that mandate allergen disclosure on menus.
Nutritional Calculations: The software also calculates the nutritional values of your recipes based on the ingredients used. It provides detailed information on calories, fats, carbohydrates, proteins, and other essential nutrients.
This capability is particularly useful for creating balanced menus that cater to customers with specific dietary needs or preferences, such as low-calorie, high-protein, or low-carb options.
Yes, Apicbase does calculate actual food costs. This is done by tracking the cost of ingredients used in recipes and monitoring inventory levels to assess how much is actually spent on the ingredients for each dish sold.
Here’s how Apicbase accomplishes this:
Ingredient Cost Tracking: Apicbase maintains a database of ingredient prices, which are used to compute the cost of recipes based on the quantities of each ingredient used.
Inventory Management: As ingredients are consumed, Apicbase updates inventory counts and adjusts the food cost calculations accordingly, reflecting the actual use of ingredients in real time.
Sales Data Integration: By integrating with point-of-sale (POS) systems, Apicbase aligns sales data with inventory usage. This allows for an accurate calculation of the actual food cost for each item sold by comparing the expected cost (based on the recipe) with the actual inventory used.
Variance Analysis: Apicbase provides variance reports that highlight discrepancies between the theoretical (recipe-based) and actual (sales and inventory-based) food costs.
These insights help identify areas for operational improvement, such as reducing waste or adjusting portion sizes.
Yes, Apicbase tracks ingredient prices when the supplier is integrated. You can manage food costs more effectively. It ensures that your pricing strategies are data-driven and can adjust to changes in the cost of goods sold, which provides a strong competitive advantage in the competitive food service industry.
