Getting food delivered on time and ensuring the process is swift, performs good hygiene and cooked to perfection is the goal of every takeaway service.
Electrolux Professional have made a short guide on how to help this process. This includes advice on how your kitchen equipment can help keep your restaurant gaining 5 out of 5 stars for every delivery made.
Cleaning your equipment
Hygiene is a huge concern not just for the customer but for takeaway services themselves. Ensuring your equipment is cleaned properly and regularly can help lower your risk of contamination between foods, bacteria and viruses.
However, there is more to cleaning then just hygiene, cleaning and maintaining your equipment regularly can help protect against a breakdown and secure the longevity of your machine. At Electrolux Professional we are always thinking of ways to help this process. Our SkyLine combi ovens have a innovative SkyClean cleaning cycle. With SkyLine you can start the cycle at the end of the night and arrive back the next day with sparkling clean machines ready for the busy days ahead.
Furthermore, Electrolux Professional can provide guidance on how best to clean and maintain other equipment from fryers to High Speed Grills with expert customer care advice.
Obeying “The Four Cs”
Ensuring a speedy yet swift service must mean that the flow from each appliance to the next is seamless. To enable your business to have this “seamless” interaction you need to utilise the right equipment. With guidance from the government to always consider the 4Cs (Chilling, Cooking, Cleaning and Cross Contamination Avoidance) it is key to have a process that abides by HACCP. Something that Electrolux Professional strives to achieve with our equipment.
A good example of this is the SkyLine cook&chill process. With the innovative SkyDuo the machines can “talk” to each other to make sure the machines are ready for the exact time the transition has to be made ensuring the food is warmed or cooled effectively without allowing bacteria to manifest in the food for too long. Having helpful tools like this in your kitchen allows there to be minimum handling of the food and a food safe cooking environment which in turn, allows you to be able to complete more orders in a shorter timeframe.
Ergonomics
Ergonomic kitchen design or ergonomically designed kitchen appliances can provide new ways to do the same things, which allows new routines to be inserted into the existing kitchen workflow. These appliances can make a given task easier and/or faster to perform, thus reducing the time and/or level of expertise needed to operate it.
Having an ergonomic kitchen can ensure you reduce costs and sick leave due to the stress on the body from working with equipment. A prime example of where improvements to your kitchen’s ergonomics help was shown in a study conducted by Ergocert which found that ergonomic kitchen appliances can result in a 75% reduction in sick leave and 25% increase in productivity for your business. “Ergonomic interventions can reduce musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) by 59%, with an average decrease of 75% in sick days and a 25% increase in productivity.” Dr. Francesco Marcolin, CEO of ErgoCert (European Certified Ergonomist – EUR.ERG.)
Needless to say a lot goes into creating a highly respected takeaway service but ensuring your equipment is running smoothly and seamlessly between each other can help ensure that any downtime is avoided and you keep your customers satisfied.