Free "Food Label Printing" App Revamps Features Starting November 13 Nutrition Facts Labeling Support Now Available to All Businesses Brother label printer support also expanded

Relation Design Institute, Inc. (headquartered in Sanda City, Hyogo Prefecture; Masahiko Sakakibara, President) will launch a version of its "Food Label Printing" application that simplifies mail order and prepared food sales on November 13, 2024, with updated functions to enable all businesses to use it and support a wide variety of food labeling labels. The "Food Label Printing" application will be available from November 13, 2024.

The "Food Label Printing" application was launched on August 18, 2020, and since then has been used by many users as the only (*1) mobile application dedicated to food label creation in Japan.

Official website: https://foodlabel.rdlabo.jp/

Concept of the new functionality

This application was created to support the creation of a legal compliance system for new restaurants starting mail-order and prepared food sales in the Corona Disaster. Assuming a small store, we omitted all labeling that could be omitted, such as the Nutrition Facts label, so that practical operations could be carried out with a minimum of hassle.

However, after more than four years, we began to receive feedback that the businesses using the application had expanded their scale or were no longer able to continue using it due to laws and regulations, including wholesaling to supermarkets, etc. (*2)

Therefore, we have expanded and renewed the functions to make it available to all businesses.

List of New Functions

Expansion of the display to be supported

By adding support for the Nutrition Facts label, this application can now be used by businesses that cannot use the "Omission of Nutrition Facts Labeling for Small Businesses". In addition, the application now supports the separate labeling and identification of foods containing allergens, allowing users to display more information to customers.

Nutrition Facts labeling support is now available for all businesses.

Addition of ◯Minimum Design

Table design is commonly used for food labels, but there are cases where table design cannot be adopted due to the area required to affix the display label. Therefore, we have added a new display design that users can choose from.

Table Design and Minimum Design

Automatic layout by simply selecting

◯Login function

Although the system can be used without logging in, we have received some calls about problems such as "registered data being lost due to the replacement of a smartphone," so we have made it possible to log in and save data on our server.

◯Expansion of Brother label printer support

Not only the QL-820NWB (https://amzn.to/3kOGuoP), which was previously supported, but also the QL-800 and QL-820NWBc can now be used. In addition to WiFi connection, Bluetooth and USB connections are also supported.

QL-820NWB : https://amzn.to/3kOGuoP

QL-800 : https://amzn.to/40zFXOZ

QL-820NWBc: https://amzn.to/40EWOA0

Comments from the adopting store

French restaurant "Le Benaton" in Shukugawa, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture

Sales of prepared foods at Le Benaton have increased significantly since the Corona disaster, but the amount of time and effort required has increased in proportion to the increase in sales.

Before this application, I had to work on the computer, so I had to do it myself, but now I can leave it to my staff. It is simple, easy to use, and very useful. The only problem I had was that some wholesale customers required nutritional information, but this update solved that problem as well, so I would like to continue using it in the future.

Mr. Kei Takatani, owner-chef

https://benaton.net/

Background of the offer (*At the time of release in 2020)

This application is designed for restaurants and small businesses that are newly involved in mail-order and prepared food sales to simply print food label labels.

Under the Food Labeling Law, food labels are required for all sales other than face-to-face sales at the place of manufacture. However, the following problems existed in preparing a personal computer and printer for this purpose and creating and managing several types of labels.

It is necessary to learn how to use special software for label printing.

Need a place to set up the computer.

It is difficult to start up the computer and prepare the printer during gaps in work hours.

Another issue was that many label printing applications are general-purpose applications and are not specialized for food labeling labels, making it difficult to search for labels when the number of types increases.

Therefore, this application is designed to be used with smartphones and enables printing in just three steps. In addition, the save/search function makes it easy to find past data.

Outline of "Food Label Printing

Name ： Food Label Print

Price ： Free of charge

Official website : https://foodlabel.rdlabo.jp/

Application download URL

Web app ： https://app.foodlabel.rdlabo.jp

iOS app ： https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/id1526012504?mt=8

Android app ： https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.rdlabo.foodlabel

1: AppStore / Google Play search results for apps with "food labeling" (as of November 8, 2024). Note that this excludes label printing apps that also support food labeling.

*2: Omission of Nutrition Facts labeling for small businesses (https://www.caa.go.jp/policies/policy/food_labeling/health_promotion/business/pdf/food_labeling_cms206_ 20200401_05.pdf ) and mandatory identification labeling for small businesses.

■Company Profile

Organization: Relation Design Institute, Inc.

Representative Director: Masahiko Sakakibara

Establishment : June 23, 2011

Location: Yayogaoka, Sanda-shi, Hyogo 669-1546

Business: Web production, application development, seminars, etc.

URL : https://www.rdlabo.jp/