Good food is like good entertainment.
Colourful, bright and diverse. For a lunch, a beer after work, a cocktail and a small bite to eat: mozzarella sticks, burgers, salad bowls and steak. With the family or with friends. Your guests love what you do. They come for your signature dish, because of the reliable quality and because of the great entertainment. The important thing is that it does not become boring. You therefore have to keep offering new things. Ideas, dishes and cooking methods. At the same time, you need to move within the framework your guests expect from you. In spite of staff shortages, cost pressures and a small kitchen. Adding a delivery service? Seasonal dishes on the menu? Any change is still a challenge. But that is the fun of it after all.
Efficiency reinterpreted: Roasting, grilling, baking, boiling and steaming – intelligently regulated. On less than approx. 1 m2, carefully coordinated humidity, air speed, and temperature. In a cooking system that thinks with you, learns from you, forgets nothing, adjusts and adapts. Thanks to its intelligence assistant functions, it responds to all changing requirements dynamically. More spare ribs than usual? Has the cooking cabinet door been open too long? Need a higher temperature? Here too, the iCombi Pro never loses sight of the desired result and adjusts the settings independently.
Guest service knows no breaks but only perfection. Good preparation is all the more important at rush hour. With a cooking system that takes on routine tasks, masters all conceivable cooking applications, which produce the same quality time and time again, which works intelligently thanks to iCookingSuite. What is the size, quantity, browning and condition of the food? Recognised, and the cooking parameters are adjusted and on we go. The production planning will now take over. It informs you of what can be cooked together and proposes the time or energy-optimised order. Fresh products, frozen goods, pastries, sides, one or more trays – none of it a problem. Enter the desired result, start the cooking path, completed. Perfection in no time at all. There is no need to supervise, no matter who is operating the cooking system.
Eight guests, eight different dishes. Finger food, tapas, burger, pizza, chicken wings, wedges. Not forgetting the other tables in the restaurant, with just as many requirements. The kitchen is running at full capacity. The iProductionManager is too. As it is now preparing the different foods at the same time: wedges, chicken wings, tandoori chicken, baguette, zucchini slices and apple crumble. Fast, high quality and stress-free, even with untrained staff.
Tip: Finishing
The requirements: It has to be varied and it has to be cooked to perfection. The solution: Separate production and service. With Finishing in the iCombi Pro: Pre-produce the food, store it vacuum-packed or chilled in containers and only bring to serving temperature on order. For high flexibility, high food quality and high customer satisfaction.
Spare ribs, pulled pork and beef brisket. Onion rings, gratin and chilli. The iCombi Pro can do that. It can even do it alone. As you can create your own tried and tested intelligent cooking paths. This means, trying out recipes, saving the desired result and transferring the cooking path to all iCombi Pro units. Either using a memory stick or with ConnectedCooking, RATIONAL's networking solution. Thanks to the simple and self-explanatory operating system, anyone with access rights can use the intelligent cooking path. To give your business your signature. For the side dishes. For the security of always serving the result your guests expect from you.
Shopping carts
The cooking system has shopping carts, which contain the foods that can be cooked together on the basis of your food concept. Tap the shopping cart required for production, e.g. “Daily special”, on the display, drag the foods to the rack, load the iCombi Pro and the cooking system will start. With ConnectedCooking you can distribute your shopping carts to every location. Without leaving the office.
MyDisplay
Error-free operation, always the same level of quality with MyDisplay: Different dishes that you specify are shown on the display as an image, or icon. Tap and the iCombi Pro will start working. You can also add or delete recipes just as easily. This can even be done on all connected cooking systems with ConnectedCooking. From your desk. You can always rely on the same result because nothing can be changed without you.
Food safety and work safety are important. Especially in the hospitality industry. This is exactly why you can also rely on the iCombi Pro here. Hygienically brilliant cleaning with the iCareSystem, automatic HACCP documentation – these are even accessible from any location via ConnectedCooking. High work safety thanks to low rack height of no more than 1.60 m. Also, the easy operation which virtually eliminates errors and as such guarantees that all food have a hygienically safe core temperature.
All-round cleanliness.
Ultra-fast interim cleaning in approx. 12 minutes, Eco and standard clean with descaling, with phosphate-free cleaner tabs, including overnight. In short, the iCombi Pro is always there ready to go. Avoiding any breaks in production. So you can start steaming after grilling. Preventing all flavour transfer.
Sustainability protects resources and saves money: Energy-efficient production and logistics, new standards of energy-saving are taken into consideration at RATIONAL. Equally, sustainability is just as much of a given with the iCombi Pro in your kitchen: Compared to conventional kitchen appliances, you will save energy. You will also have a lower cost of goods. Less over-production. Finally you will cook more healthily.
The iCombi Pro does not only cook intelligently but also saves intelligently. Such as in energy consumption, workload, space requirement, consumption of raw materials, consumption of fat. In short, the results are impressive.
Up to 70 %* lower energy costs
Short preheating times eliminate the need for standby mode. Rolling loads with the iProductionManager in the iCombi Pro also save energy.
Less working time
It eliminates the need for routine tasks such as turning, checking and readjustment. The ultra-fast cleaning in the Combi Pro saves more time. It creates 1-2 hours* more time per day for other things.
30 %* less space requirement
The iCombi Pro replaces approx. 90 % of conventional kitchen equipment. So out with the tilting pan, pots, pans and deep-fat fryer – and in with freedom of movement. Or additional shop space.
Up to 25 %* less consumption of raw materials
The iCombi Pro sensitively adjusts its cooking processes which reduces weight and cutting loss. It also produces the same high quality on every single rack, which considerably reduces waste. Overall, this reduces the consumption of raw materials.
Whether a comprehensive consultancy, concept creation or maintenance contract, for one or several hundred restaurants - RATIONAL is an experienced partner when it comes to modern restaurant concepts. You can use the whole service cycle or just one of the points listed and enter at any point in the cycle. Interested? Then the RATIONAL experts look forward to receiving your email or call.
"The possibility of supervising the RATIONAL cooking systems opens up the door to some amazing possibilities. Our service partners can now identify the cooking systems at risk of failing before they do so and either plan a maintenance visit or in some cases even troubleshooting via remote access. This has helped reduce the number of maintenance calls by 35 % since the introduction of ConnectedCooking."
ConnectedCooking.
Networking is the rule in the hospitality industry: Ordering, billing and service - it all runs digitally and it is all synchronised. Just like ConnectedCooking by RATIONAL. Recipe transfer, unit control, hygiene data, software updates, MyDisplay settings, shopping carts and service remote access with the secure networking solution you can control everything centrally from your desk. For all connected RATIONAL cooking systems. At every location. You can also access and save HACCP data from all cooking systems. Do you have a weekly menu? This 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.
Different kitchen concepts require different cooking systems. You can produce food internally and finish it externally. Front of house cooking? The iCombi Pro as a little extra in the kitchen to expand the menu? The cooking system is also very flexible in terms of size. It is tough and carefully manufactured. The focus is on high quality standards for suppliers, high demands in production, continuous improvement as well as its durability. It's no wonder that the oldest RATIONAL combi-steamer has been in use for 40 years.
RATIONAL Service
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.
iCombi live.
Enough with the theory, time for practice because nothing is more convincing than seeing for yourself. Experience the RATIONAL cooking systems in action, see the intelligent functions for yourself and try it out to see how you can work with them. Live, with no obligation and at a location near to you. Do you have any questions or do you want some information specific to your needs and possible applications? Then call us or send us an e-mail.