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One app. The whole cycle. In style.

B Lab is MENA's first 100% AI-native back of house for restaurants: one centralized app running the entire cycle, from recipe R&D to purchasing, inventory, costing, and sales, plugged straight into any POS system you use. Fast to set up, built to scale, and inclusive of every kind of venue, from a home bar to a multi-branch group.

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Built by a food and beverage operator with 7 years behind the pass and zero traditional software knowledge.

English · العربية — bilingual from the first line of code, not a translation bolted on.

R&D→Purchasing→Costing→Inventory→Sales→Ops→Forecasting→Expansion

Every tool you've been duct-taping together, now in one login, one source of truth, one bill.

The thesis

Why B Lab? Why now?

Three reasons this exists today and couldn't have existed five years ago.

01

Legacy software had its turn. It's our turn now.

The era of the 1 million codebase lines is over. What once took an army and a decade can now be rebuilt AI-native, with every pain point of the old way fixed on the way in. Faster to ship, cheaper to run, and open to everyone instead of whoever could afford the enterprise contract. And while others automate the admin, B Lab runs the whole loop: from the first recipe idea through purchasing, inventory, and sales, all the way to your next branch.

Old software was built with no AI in mind and complemented by endless spreadsheets. B Lab was built for how we operate today and scales to 20 years from now.

02

One venue. Five logins. Make it make sense.

You're paying for a POS, a books tool, a checklist app, a project tracker, and an inventory system that all refuse to talk to each other. We took what each of them does well, threw out the rest, and put it in one very good-looking app that scales the day you do.

Five subscriptions, five passwords, five support tickets. Or one.

03

We were never data entry machines.

The whole point of opening a place is to serve people and make it memorable. Yet we've all watched a manager take over a table mid-shift to finish entries while guests wait for someone to look up. That's the moment B Lab was born. Automate the back of house, and 75% of the focus goes back where it belongs, on the guest.

We're cool people serving cool people. Not a data entry department.

What's inside

Pick a headache. Watch it disappear.

Tap through. Every feature exists to tackle a problem we all had.

Every kitchen has a chef. Not every bar has a mixologist. Now yours does.

Drinks are the highest-margin thing you sell, yet the drink menu is always the afterthought. Build your entire menu from a flavour memory you're chasing or from whatever is sitting on your shelf right now. Every recipe expert-vetted and properly balanced, not AI guesswork.

Beverage costs run 18 to 25% of price, with spirits carrying 400%+ markups. The most profitable part of your venue finally gets the brain it deserves.

Recipe Designer
Recipe Designer input, build from a memory or from what is on your shelf Three generated recipes with flavour tags, glassware, and yield

No more googling "cordial recipe" and landing on 10 different ones.

Cordials, fermentations, syrups, infusions, batching, dilution, the whole dark art of back-of-house prep. Ten-plus calculators that run your recipes and scale them up or down without breaking the ratios.

No more endless tabs. No more “I think this is right.” Precise, repeatable, balanced. Every single time.

Master Lab
Master Lab calculator directory Fermentation station, four staged build Party calculator event templates

10 years of data? No problem. We import it in 60 seconds.

Inventory, sales history, supplier lists. Whatever mountain of spreadsheets you have been dragging around for a decade, our AI agents ingest it, flag anything unclear, and wait for your approval before a single row is saved.

Onboarding that used to take weeks now takes less time than a drink order.

Data Loader
Inventory import, drop your spreadsheets 1,000 rows parsed, 993 ready, 7 flagged Imported supplier directory

Stop feeding your business secrets to a chatbot in another tab.

You know the routine. Export the sheet, paste it somewhere, ask what to do, then do it yourself anyway. Done. B Lab's multi-layer AI reads your data, spots the problem, names the item, and hands you the fix.

“Create a PO for Fresh Produce Daily.” Said in the chat, drafted in the chat, waiting for your approve.

AI That Acts
B Lab chat drafts a purchase order for a supplier, ready to review and approve

We find the money you are losing before you even miss it.

Count to count, item by item, we tell you exactly what walked out the door and where. Stale cost snapshots get flagged before they quietly wreck your theoretical COGS, and every movement leaves a receipt.

The leaks you have been eating as “just the cost of business”? We name them.

Variance Engine
Variance report, theoretical versus actual COGS Stock movement by item Audit trail of every movement

Every dollar you made today. On one screen.

POS sales here, card terminal there, cash somewhere else, and delivery apps each with their own login. Most venues pay a separate aggregator just to see one number. You don't need one, and B Lab keeps going: revenue, cost, and margin per item, plus a menu engineering matrix that says which dishes are stars and which are quietly bleeding you.

One panel instead of six tabs, no aggregator subscription, and the analysis those tools never gave you.

Sales Aggregator
Sales by item with revenue, cost, and margin Menu engineering matrix, stars, workhorses, puzzles, dogs Menu sections with live cost and margin

The most advanced inventory manager you can put in a venue.

Count by scanning: point the camera at a barcode and the item is identified, exactly, no estimates, no guesswork, a scan is a certainty. Spot checks from one location or across every venue you run. Internal transfers between your branches and external transfers to anyone else. Expiry warnings before product dies on the shelf. Costs that cascade the moment a price changes, and suppliers that link themselves to the items they deliver.

Scan-to-count cuts inventory time by 80%. Count what you want, when you want, wherever it lives.

Inventory Manager
Inventory overview, total value, below par, close to expiry Count inventory by scanning barcodes with the camera or manual entry Spot check across all locations Internal transfer between locations Waste log with reason codes Item identity, supplier and SKU Size, cost per unit, yield, and cost pin

Your shift, planned by something that read everything.

A smart layer that studies your manpower, your events, and your production list, then recommends the best workflow for your day, week, or month. Drag your team onto zones and shifts while hours and overtime update live, run opening and closing checklists on a board that flags what's overdue, and let AI recommend the production requests before anyone asks.

Schedule, checklists, and prep on one board. The plan writes itself; you just approve it.

Ops Suite
Ops dashboard with checklist board, needs-attention flags, and approval columns Drag and drop weekly schedule with live hours and overtime Production requests with AI recommend and approval workflow

"Do you have a POS?" Never say never.

Foodics, Square, Lightspeed, Toast, Clover, NCR, Shopify POS, POSRocket, Aloha, Rewaa, or a generic webhook for anything else. Pick yours, we hand you a URL, and your sales start flowing in. We are the brain on top, not the register.

And the day you are ready to switch to our own light POS? We will be right here, kettle on, waiting for you.

POS Integration
Eleven POS providers to connect

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Start free. Upgrade when your venue does.

80% faster inventory counts Up to 100 hours of office work back, every month

Free forever tier. No card. You agree to receive B Lab product emails.

Enterprise

One group. Ten venues. Built your way.

Enterprise is for operators who outgrew off-the-shelf. A restaurant group with wildly different concepts under one roof, a chain running the same playbook across ten locations, or a hospitality company that needs the software shaped around how it already works, not the other way around.

There is no fixed price because there is no fixed shape. We sit down, map how your group actually runs, then build the calculators, permissions, and reporting to match. You pay for what your org uses, pooled across every venue.

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Every branch, one account

A global venue switcher scopes the whole back office. One shared catalog, separate stock pools and costs per branch, and a new branch goes live in one tap. Stock never bleeds between venues.

One recipe book, every branch

Central R&D, branch-level execution. One tap activates a recipe's full ingredient tree at any branch, and the same cocktail shows its true margin per location.

POS and transfers that know where they are

Every sale depletes the right branch's stock, never a blended pool. Inter-venue transfers carry weighted cost with optional approvals, and unmapped sales wait safely for review.

Advisory that names names

All venues roll into one whole-business report with a branch-by-branch comparison, and the AI narrative tells you which branch is winning and which needs you this week.

Pooled usage, spend limits

Pay as you go across the whole org, with caps per user and per organisation so finance sees one predictable bill.

Custom tools, private support

Calculators and workflows built for how your group runs, group tier for multiple businesses under one ownership, and a dedicated support line with onboarding for every venue.

Pricing

Solo or squad. Monthly or yearly. Your call.

Start free, stay free, or scale to a whole group. Your bill grows when you do, not before.

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Try the creative tools. No card, no expiry.

$0 forever

1 user

  • 10 free AI recipe generations
  • 10 free Waste Designer runs
  • 10 free Pairing Studio runs
  • Live fermentation tracking
  • Unlimited recipe database
  • Limited Master Lab calculators
  • PDF exports (watermarked)
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For serious bartenders, chefs, and creators.

$15 / month

1 user

  • 50/month AI recipe generations
  • 50/month Waste Designer runs
  • 50/month Pairing Studio runs
  • Inventory manager access
  • Unlimited recipe database
  • Live fermentation tracking
  • All Master Lab calculators
  • Email support
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Team is priced per venue, not per head. Charging you per person in an industry built on turnover would be a special kind of cruel.

News

What we're up to.

Competition Sustainable Gastronomy Competition 2026 by Hospitality in Health

B Lab joins Jordan's first nationwide Sustainable Gastronomy Competition.

Hospitality in Health and Luminus Technical University College have opened the country's first nationwide competition for chefs, beverage professionals, and hospitality students, built around health cuisine, ancestral superfoods, sustainable gastronomy, and zero-proof drinks. B Lab by Bourtoqali joins as an organizer, alongside HIH and Luminus.

Our founder, Amman Alsaqqaf, sits on the beverage jury as fermentologist, judging the zero-proof track next to coffee expert Muneeb Enayan of Raw Smith and mixologist Tareq Zoumot of Bar Shivoo.

B Lab is the beverage R&D tool for the competition. Every entrant in the zero-proof track gets a competition account with generation credits for the Recipe Designer, pairing studio, and waste designer, plus the full Master Lab: fermentation staging for kombucha, shrubs, and lacto-ferments, dilution and scaling, and cost per serve. Contestants build, balance, and document a drink the way a working bar would, and the spec they submit is one the judges can actually reproduce.

Round one runs on recipes through August, with the application form open until 31 August. Judges score in September, the top three per category compete live at Luminus on 18 October, and the awards land at the Wellness & Ancestral Superfoods Conference on 31 October in Amman.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Every doubt you're thinking right now. Answered honestly.

No, and that's by design. B Lab's AI reads your data, spots the problem, and drafts the fix: a purchase order, a repricing, a transfer. Then it waits. Nothing moves money, changes your menu, or touches your stock without your one-tap approve. You stay the operator. We just delete the typing.

Most tools were built years before modern AI existed, then bolted a chatbot on top. That's AI-added. B Lab was architected on AI from the first line of code: the data import, the costing engine, the advisory, the recipe design all assume AI as the foundation, not a feature. The difference shows the first time you upload 10 years of spreadsheets and watch them land in 60 seconds.

You're right. You can't automate hospitality. The warmth, the read on a room, the regular's usual before they ask, that's you, and no app touches it. What you can automate is the invoice re-typing, the cost math, the 11pm inventory count. We don't replace the craft. We delete the busywork stealing you from it.

The plating, the pour, the vibe? Absolutely human. Reconciling a supplier invoice against a purchase order? That was never human. You were just doing it by hand because no one gave you a better option. Now someone has.

Perfect. We sit on top and make it smarter. We're the brain, not the register.

Built for people mid-shift, not desk analysts. If they can text, they can run it. No training manual, no IT department.

They're yours. Full stop. B Lab is where they live safely, costed and scaled, not where they get shared. Your data never takes a field trip to some chatbot in another tab.

Which is exactly why B Lab was built by an operator who ran F&B across MENA for 7 years, not a Silicon Valley team who's never worked a Friday rush. Bilingual, region-first, flexible from a single café to 15 branches.

Cool, so is a menu without prices. Our AI drafts real purchase orders and repricing you approve in one tap. That's not a chatbot doing tricks. That's a task off your plate.

You're already paying for it, in leaked margin, wasted product, and 5 separate subscriptions doing half the job. B Lab costs less than the money you're losing without it.

Then let the AI do the setup. It uploads 10 years of your data in under a minute. You don't learn B Lab. B Lab learns you.

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Automating back of house so you can break some bread with table 8.

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