3 Ways Digital Slicing Improves Profitability

Improve Profitability with Digital Slicing

Would you believe that 300 million sandwiches are eaten across America every single day? With a population of about 330 million, that’s a high per-person average! The sandwich has long been an American favorite for a wide range of reasons from ease of prep to customization capabilities to portability, all necessities in our fast-moving world. With deli meats being a top sandwich-stuffing option, if you serve or sell sliced meats and cheeses, you’re in a prime position to meet the consistently high demand for sales of sandwiches, sliced meats by the pound, and deli platters.

The right slicing equipment can put you in an even better position to increase throughput and consistency, which will ultimately add dollars to the bottom line. As many aspects of our lives and operations have gone digital, so have slicers. Bizerba recently introduced the fully automatic slicer series VSI, and they are indeed game changing. Here’s why you’ll want to seriously consider taking your slicing operation digital if you haven’t already.

Ease of Use

Say goodbye to extensive training. Touch screen operation is intuitive, so employees will quickly learn to operate the VSI slicer. Colors, tile sizes, or product images can be easily customized via touch screen, while programming helps reduce user operating errors.

With programming to create depositing types for stacking, shingling, and circular patterns, employees of all experience levels can quickly learn to create consistent and attractive deli trays and platters. The shaving function creates wafer-thin slices of meat for appealing merchandising in the deli case for sale by the pound or for made-to-order sandwiches and salads.

Consistency and Cost Control

An integrated portion scale enables the operator to control both the slice thickness and the exact package or portion weight ensuring a consistent product every time. This feature improves inventory management and forecasting accuracy, while preserving profit margins that can be eroded by continually over-generous amounts of product.

Fast Cleaning and Maintenance

The VSI meets the NSF ANSI 8/2012 hygiene standard, which is an important assurance of cleanability. Hygienic design enables VSI slicers to be easily disassembled without tools which makes them easy to thoroughly clean. The housing shape keeps product residues and liquids contained to help protect the surrounding area during operation, reducing clean-up time all around.

One of the most innovative benefits of digital capability is remote support. Remote support allows both the customer and service to remotely access the slicer via LAN connection. Individual user profiles and messaging functions to plan preventative maintenance, monitoring functions such as history of all actions and degree of utilization of the machine, and remote servicing potential offer more ways to improve forecasting and profitability.

Whether your existing slicer is ready for retirement or you’re ready to expand your menu with new equipment, we can help. Contact us.