Menu Engineering & Recipe Development Software
Recipe builder with costings, allergens, nutritional values and carbon footprints
Enhance your menu development processes with Apicbase's recipe software and database.
Perfect for corporate chefs and R&D teams in multi-unit restaurants and large-scale catering. Automate recipe costings, allergen and carbon footprint labelling, and nutritional value calculations.
Tools to create profitable and popular menus
Apicbase is the ultimate workspace for development chefs.
Central recipe database
Your ingredients, recipes and prep guidelines are available in a standardised format from a single online location, accessible to all units.
Drag-and-drop editor
Development chefs can easily create unique dishes by dragging and dropping ingredients, which are linked to your suppliers and include allergen and CO2 information.
Cost manager
Apicbase calculates the theoretical food cost and margins of your recipes. Changes to ingredients instantly reflect the impact on costs.
Food safety compliance
Apicbase displays the allergen information for your menus and provides labels in multiple formats, both printable and digital.
Single source of truth for recipe data
Everything your staff needs in one place. Apicbase securely stores and organises your menu and product data. Recipe updates are instantly available across all locations.
Scalable and consistent recipes
Whether you're in corporate catering, a restaurant chain, or dark kitchen operations, your recipes are the core of your business.
Apicbase equips your R&D chefs to create popular and profitable dishes and provides your kitchen teams with the tools to ensure consistent, high-quality execution, regardless of experience level.
Instant recipe costings
Apicbase aggregates data to provide immediate theoretical recipe and menu cost calculations.
Understand food cost variance
Use inventory management to compare theoretical food costs with actual food costs, ensuring your expenses are controlled.
Supplier integration
Connect with supplier databases to track ingredient pricing and update recipe costings and margins in real time.
Margin alerts
Keep track of dish profitability and get notified of underperforming items.
Sales trend analysis
Use sales analytics to develop menu items aligned with market demands.
Produce at scale
Easily scale up recipes and bills of materials and aggregate batches for efficient production in large-scale operations.
Sustainability metrics
Calculate each ingredient's carbon footprint and get accurate reporting to help you achieve sustainability goals.
Optimise restaurant operations with clear product data
Well-costed recipes, a beloved menu, and tools to track profitability and popularity are the foundations of a successful food service concept. Apicbase does it all.
Apicbase helps us to deliver a consistent product across our sites and teams. And we know our COGS in real-time.
Julian Kirwan
Executive Chef
