Print the labels your finished cases carry and export the cooking and cooling logs an auditor asks for — both straight off the production run.
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The teriyaki bowls are cooked, packed, and stacked by the loading dock, and two things stand between them and the truck: a label on every case with a lot number you can trace, and the day's cooking log filed where you can hand it to an inspector. Both come off the run itself — the labels from each batch, the logs from the run's tabs. Open Production runs and the run you just finished.
Kitchen+A label prints from the — the same screen where you weigh ingredients and record output.
Open the recipe on the run
From the run's Recipes tab, select Continue on a recipe that's in progress, or Start on one still pending. The line item opens on the batch you're working.
Open the label
Print batch label — on the batch card, and on every row of the supervisor Batch overview — prints the label for the whole batch. Label, on a single Output entry, prints just that entry's. Either opens the label in a new tab, headed Batch label.
Send it to the printer
Select Print label to hand the sticker to your browser's print dialog — to a label printer, or to PDF.
The lot number lands after the first weighing
Open a label before anything's been weighed into the batch and the lot line reads Pending first weighing, with no Print label button yet. Bettr mints the lot when the first ingredient is weighed — print the label once it's there.
The sticker is built to go straight on a case or tote:
An intermediate's label carries three lines a finished-product label leaves off: WIP #, BEST BY, and ALLERGENS.
A recipe with a cooking or cooling puts a Cooking Log or Cooling Log tab on the run. Record the readings there batch by batch; when it's time to file them, the export lives on the same tab.
Above the consolidated table, each log carries a button per template — the format your plant files under. Cooking offers FDA PDF and USDA Kettle PDF; cooling offers FDA PDF and USDA IQF PDF. Recipes set up under a different authority or cook method file under their own template, so the button set matches what's on the run. Selecting one opens the finished record in a new tab.
The export is a print-ready log, not a raw dump of numbers:
The note at the top reads use your browser's print dialog to save as PDF, and Print this log does exactly that. This is the an auditor asks for — produced without a day of prep.
When a run's recipes span more than one department, a Department filter sits above the log. Pick a department and the table — and the log you export from it — narrows to that department's recipes, so each line files its own record.
Bettr flags a run until its log is filed
Until you've generated a run's cooking or cooling PDF, the run list marks it — Cooking Log PDF not generated, with a warning triangle — so a run doesn't ship without its records. Generating the export clears the flag.