Catering label software: FDA nutrition panels from your own recipes
If you are selling packaged food — retail, wholesale, grab-and-go, a farmers' market — you need a nutrition panel that holds up. This builds one from the recipe you already costed, using USDA data matched to your ingredients, for $5 a label. No separate subscription, no per-month label tier.
Why labels are usually painful
The nutrition panel needs the recipe to be exact: every ingredient, every quantity, the yield, the serving size. Most caterers have that information, but spread across a costing spreadsheet, a prep sheet and somebody's memory. So the label becomes a data-entry project, and the usual answer is to pay a lab or a consultant per SKU.
Here, the recipe is already structured and already costed, because that is how you priced the dish. The label is generated from it.
What you get
- An FDA-format nutrition panel built from USDA FoodData Central matched against your ingredients.
- Allergen declarations carried from the recipe's dietary flags rather than re-entered.
- Serving size and yield taken from the recipe's own portioning.
- Regeneration when the recipe changes. Reformulate the dish and the panel is rebuilt, which is the part that goes wrong when labels live in a design file.
What it costs
$5 per label, pay as you go. It is the only metered item in the product — everything else is included in the plan you are on. Starter is $99/mo for one seat and Pro is $149/mo for three. Every feature is on both plans — they differ on seats, storage and how much AI you get each month. Extra seats are $15/mo. The 14-day free trial takes no credit card. See pricing.
That pricing exists because labels are the one feature with a real per-use cost behind them, and burying it in a higher tier would mean charging the caterers who never print a label.
Where this is not the right tool
This is not a substitute for lab analysis where lab analysis is legally required. Database-derived panels are accepted for a great many products and not for all of them — the threshold depends on your product, your claims and your jurisdiction. If you are making a specific nutrient-content or health claim, or your state or buyer requires verified analysis, get the lab work. We are not going to pretend otherwise to sell a $5 label.
We are also not a label printing service. You get the panel; you print it or hand it to your designer.
If labels are why you are here
Start the trial, import one recipe, generate one label, and see whether the panel matches what you expected. That is a twenty-minute test and it answers the question better than this page does.
Questions people ask
How much does a nutrition label cost?
$5 per label, pay as you go. It is the only metered item in the product; everything else is included in the $99 or $149 plan.
Is a database-generated panel legally acceptable?
Often, but not always. Database-derived nutrition panels are widely used, while specific nutrient-content or health claims — and some state and buyer requirements — call for laboratory analysis. Check against your product and jurisdiction; we are not able to make that call for you.
Where does the nutrition data come from?
USDA FoodData Central, matched against the ingredients in your own recipes.
What happens when I reformulate a dish?
The panel is regenerated from the updated recipe, which is the main failure mode when labels live in a separate design file.
Does it print the labels?
No. You get the panel to print yourself or pass to your designer.
Ten minutes gets a real event in — your menu, your prices, a quote you could send. The 14-day trial takes no credit card.