From calorie counts on your menu boards to packaged grab-and-go items, ReciPal makes menu labeling simple. Calculate nutrition for every dish in minutes, flag allergens automatically, and download print-ready FDA-compliant labels with ease.
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ReciPal makes menu labeling simple -- accurate calorie counts and nutrition for every menu item, automatic allergen detection, and FDA & CFIA-compliant labels in one affordable, web-based platform.
FDA Menu Labeling, Simplified
Chain restaurants with 20 or more locations must display calorie counts under FDA rules. ReciPal calculates accurate nutrition for every dish so you can put compliant calorie counts on printed menus, menu boards, and packaged items -- without guesswork.
Plate Costing Built Right In
ReciPal calculates your cost per plate and per batch as you build each dish. Enter ingredient, labor, and packaging costs, and ReciPal shows you exactly where your food costs and margins stand so you can price your menu from real numbers.
Automatic Allergen Detection
ReciPal flags the Big 9 allergens directly from your ingredient lists and keeps declarations up to date when a recipe changes. That reduces compliance risk across a full menu and makes it easy to answer guest allergen questions with confidence.
Search ReciPal's robust ingredients database or add your own with ReciPal's AI ingredient upload tool. Set the quantity of each ingredient used in your recipe.
Enter your batch yield and serving size. ReciPal automatically applies FDA and CFIA rounding and formatting rules.
Choose from a variety of label types or select multiple recipes and automatically generate a compliant menu label PDF or CSV.
Watch how ReciPal turns a recipe into accurate nutritional data in minutes.
Whether you run a single location or a growing chain, ReciPal calculates accurate calorie and nutrition data for every dish. Put compliant calorie counts on menus and menu boards, and generate full nutrition labels for packaged and grab-and-go items.
With food costs shifting constantly, restaurant margins can disappear fast. ReciPal tracks ingredient, packaging, labor, and overhead costs by unit so you can price each menu item from real numbers and know your margins before you print the menu.
Restaurant menus touch nearly every major allergen. ReciPal detects the Big 9 allergens straight from your ingredient lists and keeps declarations current when recipes change -- so you can answer guest questions and reduce compliance risk across the whole menu.
Restaurants build menus by mixing and matching a handful of prep components. Create your house sauces, dressings, marinades, and bases once as subrecipes, then drop them into any dish to get its nutrition instantly. Add your special sauce to three plates and all three get accurate nutrition automatically -- and when you tweak the sauce, every dish that uses it recalculates on its own.
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Martina Director, Luna Mexican Kitchen
“I recently finished our menu with your product. It was really such an easy process and I'm very thankful!”
Josh Owner, Uncle's Family Kitchen
“I wanted to grow our business, so I decided the best way to do this would be to bottle our most popular sauces. ReciPal is a great product for restaurant owners looking for ways to expand.”
Matt Owner, Hey Juan Burritos
ReciPal is a complete restaurant recipe platform. Beyond FDA-compliant labeling, you also get:
Yes -- ReciPal is used by restaurants of every size, from single locations to multi-unit chains. It's well suited to restaurants because it calculates accurate calorie and nutrition data for every menu item, which you can use for FDA menu labeling on menus and menu boards. Automatic allergen detection flags the Big 9 from your ingredient lists, plate costing is built in so you can protect margins, and ReciPal runs in a browser so your whole team can access it from any location.
No, database analysis is an FDA and CFIA-accepted method for nutrition labeling and menu labeling, and it's the approach used by the vast majority of food businesses, including major restaurant chains. ReciPal draws on the USDA nutritional database and has been used to generate hundreds of thousands of compliant labels without lab testing.
Lab testing is optional and is sometimes used for unusual ingredients not well represented in databases. For most restaurant dishes, database analysis is an excellent, accepted choice, and ReciPal's partner lab is available if you do want testing.
Yes. Under FDA rules, restaurants that are part of a chain with 20 or more locations doing business under the same name and offering substantially the same menu must display calorie counts for standard menu items, with additional written nutrition information available on request. ReciPal calculates the full nutrition profile for each dish, so you have the calorie figures for your menus and menu boards plus the detailed nutrition data to provide when a guest asks for it.
Yes. ReciPal stores every recipe in your account, so seasonal and rotating items are always a few clicks away. When a dish comes back on the menu, its nutrition and label are ready without re-entry. You can copy an existing recipe to create a variation, adjust ingredients or serving size, and ReciPal recalculates the nutrition and allergens automatically -- which makes keeping labels current across a changing menu far less work.
ReciPal automatically detects the Big 9 allergens -- milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybeans, and sesame -- directly from the ingredients in each recipe. As you build or edit a dish, the allergen declaration updates itself, so you don't have to track allergens by hand across a large menu. That makes it easy to keep menu allergen information accurate and to answer guest questions with confidence when recipes change.
ReciPal's database analysis draws on USDA nutritional data. For the ingredients most restaurants use -- proteins, produce, dairy, grains, oils, and common pantry items -- the USDA data is highly accurate and widely accepted for menu labeling and packaged retail products.
For custom or specialty ingredients not in the standard database, ReciPal lets you add your own using data from a supplier's spec sheet. That keeps your nutrition and calorie figures accurate even for signature dishes and house-made components.
Restaurants use ReciPal to meet menu labeling rules, control food costs, and grow their business. Create your first label free.