Make Your Own Luck with These Foodservice Resources

St. Patty’s Day and the beginning of spring are here! March is a time for renewal, and it’s the perfect time for wearing, thinking, saving, and making green!

To us, the color green symbolizes many of the qualities that make great foodservice operations thrive. Newness and innovation, freshness and quality, revenue growth, and sustainability are a few that come to mind. To let you in on a little Wallin FSR secret, we chose the color green for our logo because helping our customers be successful in those key areas has kept our business going strong for 75 years.

In the spirit of the season of green, we’ve hand-picked some of the latest equipment and supply innovations designed specifically to help your operation move the needle to grow and thrive.

Newness and Innovation

Developing or refreshing your menu doesn’t need to be complicated and costly. You can support specials, limited time offerings, regional specialties, fusion cuisine, and more with a single, compact piece of equipment that allows you to experiment with a wide variety of cooking methods and processes.  

The latest and most versatile high speed oven on the market, Merrychef conneX® 12 rapidly cooks, toasts, grills, and reheats fresh or frozen foods, reducing or eliminating the need for other specialized equipment. 

This all-in-one ventless unit delivers consistent, high quality food up to 20 times faster than conventional cooking methods. It also makes valuable use of space with a 14" wide oven with a 12" x 12" oven cavity that fits on a standard 24" countertop. 

Need a larger oven? The Merrychef conneX 16 steps up to a 16" x 16" oven cavity. 

ConneX lets you create your own recipes by easily setting each element of the cooking process, allowing maximum flexibility and speed to cook, grill, toast, and reheat in seconds. 

Or save time by choosing from over 100 delicious recipes pre-programmed by Merrychef’s global team of chefs. Simply select your menu, Press & Go!

It’s also important to note that the conneX operating controller works intuitively, just like a smart phone, so staff will quickly become comfortable operating the oven to deliver consistent, delicious results with every order.

Revenue Growth and Profitability

Let’s just come out and say it: green is the color of money, and profitability sustains businesses. Preventing waste and applying measures for consistency are two of the quickest, easiest ways to make sure revenue goes right where it should—to the bottom line!

Reliable scales help ensure consistent and accurate portions and toppings so you’re not leaving money on the table. With the first and only pizza/specialty scales utilizing Bluetooth^® connectivity, Edlund helps you contain costs with consistently measured toppings while eliminating cumbersome cords.

Edlund's new EHP-30 High Profile Portion/Light Receiving Scale is IP67 rated waterproof and submersible, and has a 30lb. x 0.1oz capacity.

A FIFO food rotation system that helps ensure that food that goes in first gets used first is another way to protect your food inventory and keep costs down. StoreSafe Endure Food Identification Labels by Cambro provide a long term labeling system. These reusable rotation labels adhere to any polycarbonate food pain or container and stay secured through 300 commercial dishwasher washings. Scrub off markings wax marker or grease pencil markings, and the label is blank and ready to use again.

Freshness and Quality

Freshness is the key to food safety, quality, and loyalty. The right equipment helps your business maximize shelf life and serve the freshest foods possible.

Holding ingredients in a refrigerated chef base helps keep them fresh while providing employees immediate access right when they need them. Delfield Coolscapes Undercounters and Worktables^™ with GreenGenius^™ provide refrigeration options that improve workflows and food safety by putting fresh foods where they’re needed, saving staff valuable time. 

Configure your base with doors, drawers, or a combination to maximize your cold storage while keeping enough product at hand to manage busy periods with fresh and safe foods. An LED light and glass doors make contents easier to see without opening, while features such as 5" casters make cleaning, moving, and maintenance easy.

Sealed storage containers protect food from air, moisture, and potential contaminants that can cause food to look unappetizing and spoil prematurely. 

The Cambro CamSquares^® FreshPro line is a new food storage system that enhances freshness, food safety, efficiency, and overall ease of use. 

Easy Seal Covers seal tightly to keep food fresh while still being easy to remove, recessed handles provide 25% more storage capacity, and rounded corners ease pouring. 

Drain shelves extend the shelf life of ingredients by holding them up out of their own juices. Seal lids, container graduations, and drain shelves are color-coordinated by container size to save employees valuable time.

Past laboratory and field testing of Cambro Seal Covers has proven to extend protein and produce shelf life by 2 to 3 days. The new seal covers are expected to achieve a similar result.

Sustainability

The proverb “Waste not, want not” may have originated in the 16^th century, but at today’s costs, it holds truer than ever. 

Durable supplies cost far less over time than disposables or non-commercial grade products. Equipment that can retain and re-use resources like heat and water presents a win-win-win solution with lower installation costs and utility bills, with the added bonus of being good for the planet.

From small, reusable food storage containers that can save you on the cost and waste of disposables, and warewashing racks that reduce labor and water consumption, to ventless cooking and warewashing equipment that saves on both installation and operating costs, resource and money-saving opportunities are plentiful for every size and type of foodservice operation.

When you’re looking for ways to save and make more green, look to us: we’re here to help you identify the best solutions to help your business thrive. 

We may not be able to promise a pot of gold (copper, yes), but we can certainly help you make your own luck! 

Contact us!