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Storage and sale,
with batch and use-by calculated.

Every preparation leaves the recipe book with its label: date, use-by according to your manual, sequential batch, allergens. For takeaway, also ingredients in order of weight and price per pound. You print.

Use-by from the HACCP planAllergens from the recipeBatch traced all the way to disposal
Today's preparationsMonday, August 11From the recipe book
PreparationQuantityPreppedUse byLabel Beef bologneseCooked · 3 days9 lb8/11—to print Demi-glaceCooked · 5 days2 qt8/11—to print Pastry creamCooked with eggs · 2 days3 lb8/11—to print PestoRaw · 2 days2 lb8/11—to print Vegetable stockCooked · made Saturday3 qt8/98/12expires tomorrow
Batch, date and use-by calculated from the preparation's rulePrint 4
Beef bolognese
Prepped11/08 · 10:40
Use-by8/14
BatchP-0811-03
OperatorSarah
Contains: celery
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Today

The label is a strip of tape written in pen.

Today's date, maybe. Use-by by guesswork. Batch never. In the walk-in there are containers with faded writing and nobody knows whether the bolognese is from Monday or Thursday. At an inspection, it's the first thing they look at.

  • Use-by by guesswork

    Three days? Five? Depends on who's writing.

  • No batch at all

    If something goes wrong, there's nothing to trace back to.

  • No alerts

    You find the expired stock when you open it.

The walk-in, today
Containers38
With the use-by written on21
With the batch0
Vegetable stockSaturday or Monday?
How it calculates

The use-by is decided by your manual.

Every preparation has a category, and every category has its storage days, the ones written in the restaurant's HACCP plan. Ordinoo applies them on its own: preparation date plus days, sequential batch, allergens from the recipe.

Storage rulesFrom the manual
Cooked, in the walk-in at 39 °F3 days
Cooked with eggs2 days
Raw, unprocessed2 days
Cooked, vacuum-packed7 days
Blast-chilled and frozen90 days
Pastry cream
Prepped11/08 · 11:20
Use-by—
BatchP-0811-05
OperatorMark
Contains: eggs, milk, gluten
The rule is the one in your HACCP plan, not a random one

Rule, date, batch: nobody writes anything.

Pastry cream is a cooked preparation with eggs: two days. Prepped the 11th at 11:20 AM, it expires on the 13th. The batch is sequential, the operator is whoever opened the preparation, the allergens come from the recipe. The label has everything the health inspector asks for.

  • From the HACCP plan

    You set the days per category once, from your document.

  • Allergens from the recipe

    Change an ingredient, the label changes.

For sale

The takeaway label, already compliant.

For what you sell to take away you need more: ingredients in order of weight, allergens highlighted, use-by, batch, price per pound. Everything comes from the recipe and the price list, and the label comes out ready for the printer.

  • Ingredients from the recipe

    In order of weight, with percentages where needed.

  • Allergens highlighted

    As the FDA requires, without writing them.

Retail label · Beef bolognese 16 ozFor takeaway
Ingredients in order of weightfrom the recipe
Beef 42%, tomato, celery, carrot, onion, wine, extra-virgin olive oil, salt
Allergenscelery · sulfites
Use by3 days from opening
Per serving (3.5 oz)148 cal · fat 7 g · protein 11 g
Price$9.50 · $9.50/lb
Beef bolognese · 16 oz
Produced on8/11
Use by8/14
BatchV-0811-03
Price$9.50
Contains: celery, sulfites
Marta's Trattoria · Chicago
Ingredients, allergens and values come from the recipe: the label is compliantPrint
From the pot to the log

A label is a batch you can follow.

It's not just a sticker: it's the thread that ties together the preparation, the walk-in, the use-by alert and the waste. If one day you need to trace a batch, the path is already written, with times and names.

  • Sequential batch

    Every preparation has its own, without making it up.

  • Alert before use-by

    In the morning report, not on the container.

  • Waste in the accounts

    What you throw away ends up in the food cost, it doesn't vanish.

The bolognese, from the pot to the logIt's written
Mon 10:40 AMPreparation opened by SarahBeef bolognese, 9 lb, from the reciperecipe
Mon 10:41 AMLabel printed: batch P-0811-03Expires Thursday 14, contains celerylabel
Mon 10:45 AMIn walk-in cooler 2Blast-chilled in 84 minutes, loggedcooler
Thu 7:30 AM"The bolognese expires today"In the morning report, with 2 lb still in the walk-inalert
Thu 10:10 PMClosed: 7 lb sold, 2 lb discardedWaste in the log and in the food cost, batch traced from start to finishclosed
Twenty minutes

Bring us one of today's preparations,
we'll print the right label

We open the recipe, set the storage days from your manual and print the first label with batch, use-by and allergens. Free and no strings attached: if it's not for you, we'll tell you ourselves.

  • A preparation from the recipe book
  • The days from your HACCP plan
  • The first label, printed
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