🍯 Pricing, Labelling & Compliance Console

About this simulation

Running a small honey business in the UK means balancing three things at once: a price that covers your costs and stays competitive with supermarket honey, a jar label that satisfies Food Information for Consumers (FIC) rules, and food-safety groundwork such as registering your kitchen with the local authority at least 28 days before trading. This console turns those three levers into a single readiness score and a 3D shelf of jars that visibly react to your choices.

How the score works

• Pricing health — peaks around a mid-range price that covers jars, honey loss to bottling and time; pricing too low erodes margin, pricing too high looks uncompetitive next to supermarket honey.
• Labelling compliance — rises with how much required label information (common name, net quantity, best-before date, business address, batch code) is present.
• Food safety compliance — driven mainly by local authority registration; a home kitchen without additional controls caps how high this score can climb.
• The overall score is a weighted blend, shown on the gauge and reflected in the colour of the jars on the shelf.

Controls

• Price per jar — the shelf price of a standard 340g jar.
• Label completeness — how much of the required FIC label information is filled in.
• Batch code & best-before date — a traceability detail that boosts both labelling and safety scores.
• Local authority registration and Production kitchen — reflect the food-safety groundwork a seller has completed.
• ↺ Reset console — returns all controls to their defaults. Drag to rotate the scene, scroll to zoom.

Did you know?

Under UK honey regulations, jars must state the country (or countries) of origin, and anyone selling food — including honey from a home kitchen — normally needs to register with their local council's environmental health team before trading, even as a small hobby seller.