Four kinds of product get sold to kitchens that want to stop handwriting labels, and they are not the same thing. Here is what each one actually does, what it costs, and which kitchen it suits. We sell one of them, so read this knowing that — but the facts below are checkable and we have tried not to stack them.
A digital prep list on a tablet. Replaces the clipboard and gives managers par levels and completion tracking. Typically $12–$30 a month per location. It does not print labels — the cook still writes the date by hand, which is where most date errors start.
Purpose-built labeling stations sold to large multi-unit chains, with procurement integration, account management and national service. Excellent at what it does. Priced and contracted for chains, and usually out of reach for an independent or a three-location group.
Companies that sell label stock — dissolvable, removable, day-of-the-week dots. Good product, low cost, no lock-in. They sell the sticker, not the system: nothing fills in the item, the prep date or the use-by date for you.
The prep list and the printer are the same product. Tap the item on the list; the label prints with the use-by date already calculated from that item’s shelf-life rule. $299.99 printer, once. Labels are $129.99 a pack — two rolls, 4,672 labels, about 3¢ a label. $0 a month. Bring your own compatible Zebra and skip the printer entirely.
Subscription tools are cheaper in month one and more expensive from roughly month twenty onward. At $12 a month a prep-list subscription is $720 over five years; at $30 a month it is $1,800. Neither figure includes labels, and neither includes a printer.
BOH Wiz is $299.99 once. Labels are $129.99 a pack — two rolls, 4,672 labels, about 3¢ each — and you buy those either way, whichever system you use, because everybody has to label something.
Three situations where you should buy something else, and we would rather say so than sell you a printer you regret.
BOH Wiz is a prep list that prints. It is not an inventory-forecasting or labor-management suite. If the reporting is the reason you are buying, dedicated prep-list software will do more than we will.
If you need vendor onboarding, a national service contract and a dedicated account team, that is an enterprise purchase and enterprise vendors are built for it. We are a chef-developer and a phone number.
Small kitchen, one prep cook, few items, no waste problem you can measure? Buy good dissolvable labels from anyone and keep your money. The integration pays for itself through fewer date errors, and if you do not have date errors it has nothing to pay back.
They solve different halves of the same problem. PrepWizard is prep-list software; it does not print labels or sell a printer. BOH Wiz is a prep list that drives a thermal printer directly, so the item you check off is the label that prints. If you already own a printer and only need the list, prep-list software may be enough. If your team is still handwriting dates, the integration is the part that removes the handwriting.
No. BOH Wiz works with the Zebra ZD411 and compatible direct-thermal Zebra printers. If you already own one, you only need labels at $129.99 a pack. Send us your model and we will tell you honestly whether it works.
BOH Wiz is $299.99 once for the printer plus $129.99 per label pack (two rolls, 4,672 labels, about 3¢ each), with no monthly fee. Subscription prep-list tools commonly run $12 to $30 a month per location, which is $720 to $1,800 over five years before labels. The gap widens every year because one side is a one-time cost.
Enterprise systems like Ecolab Prep-n-Print Flex are built for large multi-unit chains and come with account management, procurement integration and national service contracts. If you need that, you need that. BOH Wiz is built for independents and small groups who want the same one-tap labeling without an enterprise agreement.
Yes, and if handwriting dates is working for your kitchen, that is the cheapest path. Label vendors like DayMark and NCCO sell excellent label stock, and on price there is not much daylight — our labels cost about the same as theirs. Two differences do matter. Buying from them usually means opening an account or signing a contract before you can order at all, and their labeling systems typically add a software subscription on top of the stock; ours is $0 a month, forever. And none of them sell the prep list that fills the label in for you, which is where the date errors and the waste actually come from.
Free printer for 30 days. If it goes back, we pay the return shipping. The card on file is only charged if the printer is not returned.
