Comparison

Kitchen OS vs Labl.it

Labl.it is a label printer with a back office. Kitchen OS is the compliance system the labels plug into.

Labelling: much the same

Both print EHO prep labels and Natasha's Law PPDS ingredient labels with allergens bolded and underlined. Both calculate use-by dates from storage method, run on a mobile app, and keep print logs of who printed what. Both are UK companies with UK support. If a label printer is all you need, Labl.it does that job well.

The difference is everything the label connects to.

Beyond the label

IncludedPartialNot available

Feature	Kitchen OS	Labl.it
Temperature monitoring	Available now	Not released — beta late 2026, commercial early 2027
How a reading is captured	Sensors log on their own schedule, unattended	Staff must physically tap each sensor
Overnight & closed-day records	Continuous	No tap, no reading
Out-of-range alerts	Alerts you when a unit fails, with nobody on site	You find out at the next tap
Core vs air temperature	Simulated food core, air, or both	Food-simulant core only
Probes	Full ETI Bluetooth range — use the Thermapen you already own	Proprietary probe, their device only
Digital HACCP records	Opening/closing checks, cook-chill logs, corrective actions
Allergen management	Live matrix across every dish, QR guest menus, spec changes propagate (AllerQ)	Allergens printed on labels
Waste tracking	IoT smart scales capture weight and cost automatically	Manual log: staff record item and reason
EHO audit pack	Labels, temperatures and checks in one export	Label print logs only
Next-day replacement hardware & labels

“Tap to log” still needs someone to tap

Labl.it's TempLog sensor has, in their own words, no batteries and no WiFi — it cannot send a reading by itself. Staff walk the fridges and tap each one. Every gap between taps is a gap in your records, and a fridge that fails at 2am on a Saturday goes unnoticed until someone taps it on Monday.

Kitchen OS sensors log continuously and alert you when a unit goes out of range, whether or not anyone is in the building — and with an attached probe they read simulated food core temperature, air temperature, or both.

Based on Labl.it's published information, September 2026.