The daily challenge:

Impressing the guests.

Of course you know that the location and facilities of the hotel are important to their guests. That the price-performance ratio must be right. That this is both an attractive and competitive market. You therefore need to stand out from the competition. With an attractive F & B concept, for example. Although there is little space, staff or room for creativity.

Living a vision. Your concept of tomorrow, planned and implemented today.

Trends, ideas and customer requirements - all this is reflected in the concepts of RATIONAL. Concepts that are specially tailored to your core challenges. Regardless of whether you require support at one, or more locations.

"In the early shift, only two people now prepare breakfast for 300 guests."

Jens Hulek, Head of Food & Beverage, Premier Inn, Germany

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Your advantage: Experienced contact, individual consultation and specific implementation.

7 am, a full breakfast room, the guests are in a hurry, they have international cuisine requirements. The time frame is limited. So the iCombi Pro gets busy. As part of your food concept, and being responsible for the hot food components such as pancakes, omelettes and bacon on the breakfast buffet.

For one reason: Consistent quality. No matter who is operating the iCombi Pro.

Bread rolls, pizza, burgers, pastries, morning, lunch, afternoon, and evening. Always ready when your customers want it. Fast, uncomplicated and after a quick clean, it all looks as if nothing happened.

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An exhausting day is coming to an end, a drink at the bar, a bite to eat - your guests will love this. Surprise them with chicken wings, mozzarella sticks, burgers, pizza and curries. Quick, reliable and prepared to your specifications. Whether at lunch or in the evening, fresh or convenience product.

It helps: Respond flexibly with intelligence. Including special requests.
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Convenience products

Here too, the iCombi Pro never loses sight of the desired result and will adjust the settings independently. With the iProductionManager for example, which tells you when you can prepare your specified foods. So that your guests are served quickly, with precise perfection and always to the same standard of quality.

Frozen

The iCombi Pro is so powerful that even frozen food is cooked in no time. Finally, the cooking system recognises the condition and size of the food and adjusts the cooking process accordingly. The result, everything is always consistently high quality.

Freshly cooked

Steak or fresh vegetables are normally a challenge for untrained staff. In the iCombi Pro, however, the cooking path is already created for this and many other products, so that it does it all by itself with its intelligence, there is nothing else to do in the kitchen.

A wooden dining table set for breakfast with a variety of foods, including a plate with bread, fruit, and a cup of juice.

On less than approx. 1 m2, the iCombi Pro will show what you can do with a combination of heat and steam. For 2 or 200 guests. Ready-to-serve products, freshly cooked, frozen and convenience. Thanks to its cooking intelligence and its climate management, it is all done automatically. Precisely. With maximum loads. With mixed loads. No monitoring or checking required. 24 hours a day. So the iCombi Pro gives you outstanding food quality. Time and time again.

Essentially, the iCombi Pro only has one task: Reliably delivering consistent high quality results. It is therefore equipped with a whole lot of intelligence and impresses with productivity, simplicity and quality. For example, it recognises whether it is going to cook one or 20 burger patties and regulates everything automatically. Or it supports you with time or energy-optimised production plans. For the best way to stock the breakfast buffet for example.

The goal: Everything to save time, energy and raw materials.
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The iCombi Pro is self-explanatory and can easily be operated error-free following a brief induction. Tailored to your own food concept or one created by RATIONAL, we will train you and your employees so that everything works smoothly and only desired results are produced.

Training with RATIONAL
› Worldwide roll-out
› Train-the-trainer
› Start training at your premises
› Regular revision and updating of your concepts

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Strengthen brands, increase customer satisfaction, build market share with the new breakfast range for HolidayInn Express in North America. Both as concerns the conception and preparation. Now, fresh foods such as scrambled eggs, breakfast bacon, sausages and cinnamon rolls are made from fresh ingredients daily. With a partner on side, which delivers everything from concept development, training to the cooking systems themselves.

The result:
1,800 units installed in 8 months. Increased guest satisfaction for the breakfast and hotel product. Reduced cost of goods while using more fresh products.

More flexibility and reliability. Make loyal guests out of your guests.
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ConnectedCooking.

All under control.

Networking technology is an important function in hotels; booking system, billing, HR planning – it all runs digitally, and it is all synchronised. Just like ConnectedCooking by RATIONAL. Recipe transfer, unit control, hygiene data, software updates and service remote access with the secure networking solution you can control everything from your desk. For all connected RATIONAL units. All over the world. You can also access and save HACCP data from all cooking systems. Do you have a new menu? They can also travel around the world at a click. All you need is a PC, smartphone or tablet. Standardisation does not get easier than that.

ConnectedCooking
Powerful networking by RATIONAL. Always keeps everything under control.

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RATIONAL Service

We've thought of everything.

At RATIONAL, service is included. From the initial consultation, the test cook, test unit, installation to the worldwide training and automatic software updates, and ChefLine - the telephone hotline for individual questions. You can also attend training on various subjects, such as finishing, at the Academy RATIONAL. The worldwide RATIONAL Service team is always close at hand in case of emergencies.

All with a single objective:
Ensuring your investment pays off in the long term, that you always get the most out of your cooking systems and that you never run out of ideas.

Get an idea of the savings you can achieve by installing one or more iCombi Pro units. You will save a lot of space: Your kitchen can be up to 60 % smaller. Investment costs too: For the iCombi Pro, for example, there is the UltraVent Plus, which requires no external connection and eliminates the need for another ventilation system where the cooking system is installed. And the environment: Sustainable production and low energy consumption of the cooking system on the one hand. With less over-production, less consumption of fat and less working time on the other hand. Together this is a major plus for your cash account and the environment.

For the sake of the balance sheet. It saves a lot of money, as well as energy and water.
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Which challenges would you like to overcome with an iCombi Pro? Different unit sizes and set up variations allow for individual solutions.

Let your iCombi Pro do its job:

› Lower investment costs
› Less staff.
› Space-saving On less than approx. 1 m2
› Flexibility when changing menus
› Guaranteed success
› Energy savings of up to 70 % compared to conventional cooking technology

The result: As the size and performance adapt to the daily challenges.
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Step by step.

Shaping the future together.

In the hotel business, anyone who is not one step ahead today will have no more guests tomorrow. It is becoming more and more important to regularly revise concepts, generate input and implement new ideas. This applies both to room design, breakfast or the bar. This is precisely why RATIONAL is there for you. With know-how. With the necessary expertise. With many new ideas. Always on the basis of what has already been created together.

What does the future bring?
A whole lot of new ideas and concepts, so that you can continue keeping your customers happy.

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Individual consultation services for your hotel.

Take advantage of our know-how.

Whether a comprehensive consultancy, concept creation or maintenance contract, for one or multiple hotels - RATIONAL is an experienced partner when it comes to supporting limited service hotels. You can use the whole service cycle or just one of the points listed. You can also enter at any point in the cycle. Interested? Then the RATIONAL hotel experts look forward to receiving your email at

hotels@rational-online.com .