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Menu Engineering Software

Create Popular Menus With Profitable Dishes

Menu engineering software eliminates the guesswork from menu development. The app integrates with your POS system to generate a live menu matrix with actual food costs, sales numbers and margin contributions.

Make your recipes count

Recipes are your core data-set. They fuel all your back of house workflows. With menu engineering software, you can tune them to perfection.

  • Manage raw materials

    One tool that manages all your ingredients and suppliers centrally. Your ingredient data is enriched with allergen, packaging and pricing details. You can assign menus to individual units or roll out 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.

  • Simplify your menu engineering process

    All the data you need to develop profitable and popular menus are available and fully calculated in the app. Generate allergen labels and Nutri-scores and put your menus into action via automated bills-of-materials.

Create scalable recipes with reliable yields

A restaurant’s most valuable asset is its recipes—give them star quality with leading menu development software. Apicbase aggregates real-time data for instant recipe and menu cost calculations, helping you manage recipes, optimize yields, and engineer portions to perfection. Always stay on target with menu profit margins by refining production timings and standard operating procedures.

Keep track of product profitability through the software’s menu engineering dashboard, which alerts you to underperforming items. Fine-tune your financials by factoring in ingredient wastage and shrinkage, ensuring precision in every detail. With accurate production metrics and real-time insights, you can make data-driven decisions that maximize efficiency and profitability.

Menu Engineering Made Reliable

With the Apicbase menu engineering tech, restaurant data becomes more than numbers in clunky spreadsheets. It becomes a gateway to decision-making that helps you keep your costs low and your margins high, making menu development a reliable, repeatable and measurable process, as it should be in a modern restaurant group.

Easy to Use Menu Builder

Go through your recipe database and combine dishes into menus with an easy to use menu builder.

food costing software supplier pricing updates

Create Profitable Menus

Make informed decisions based on sales data from your POS system and automated CoGS calculations.

Organise Menu Cycles

All your menus are costed, optimised, enriched with allergen and nutrient information, and securely stored in your menu database — ready for action.

Fuel Your Kitchen Workflows With Bulletproof F&B Data

F&B managers, the supply chain, production planners & menu engineers, all depend on well-tested, well-costed recipes with reliable yields.

Eliminate guesswork. Create profitable menus

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