FoodCore didn't start with a whiteboard and a market analysis. It started with a small gluten-free bakery — and every spreadsheet, label, and compliance headache that came with it.
Running a small food business means wearing every hat. You're the chef, the bookkeeper, the compliance officer, and the delivery driver — often all before 9am. The actual baking is the easy part.
When Natasha's Law came into effect in 2021, small producers across the UK suddenly needed to label every pre-packed item with a full ingredient list, with allergens bolded. The tools available were either built for large manufacturers (expensive, complex, overkill) or were generic label designers with no understanding of food safety requirements.
Recipe costing lived in three different spreadsheets. Customer orders came through WhatsApp. Shopping lists were handwritten. Stock management was a wing and a prayer.
"We built FoodCore because we needed it. Not because we spotted a market gap on a slide deck — because we were the person who needed the tool and couldn't find it."
FoodCore started as an internal tool for a small gluten-free bakery. Over time it became something we wanted other small food producers to be able to use — a proper system, built around the way small food businesses actually work, not the way enterprise software assumes they work.
It's still just us. No VC funding, no growth targets. We charge a flat price, we give you your own private instance, and we fix problems when they come up. That's the whole model.
We built FoodCore for a specific type of business. It's deliberately not for everyone.
Designed specifically for small food businesses navigating UK food regulations.
If any of these describe you, FoodCore was built with you in mind.
One flat price. Everything included. Your own private instance, set up and ready to go.