“The ‘Internet of Things’ is core to our internal strategy. Managing all areas of our production processes manually across our short order cycles, breadth of product types and range is no longer an option.” - Ashley Lotcho, Operations Manager, Mustard Foods.
Founded in 2008, Mustard Foods is a food production business producing bespoke products for restaurant chains in the UK and Europe. With an operation that runs 24/5, and a monthly output of over 130 plus tonnes of food, they need equipment that ensures products are correct, scalable and consistent.
“For some clients, we’ll regularly prepare up to ten batches of a single recipe across multiple shifts in one day,” explains Ashley Lotcho, Operations Manager. “Making sure everything is produced to our clients’ specification is essential.”
In order to accomplish this, Mustard has invested in equipment from seven VarioCookingCenter® 211+ units with pressure cooking option which have a daily output of thousands of meals a day, as well as two SelfCookingCenter® 201 and one 202 model.
Mustard Foods’ full product range exceeds 180, in any given month more than 80 different product lines will be live.
“ConnectedCooking, a networked control solution that allows us to monitor and control multiple units remotely – exactly what we need” says Ashley. “The level of control it provides and the data it gathers is incredibly useful.”
“Our dedicated development team work with clients to establish exactly what they require. The first challenge is scaling up the recipes and ideas,” Ashley explains. “Once the product has been approved by the client it is configured in our ERP system and uploaded into the connected cooking platform in advance of the launch”.
Once the recipe is in the system, it can be scheduled for access on any of the connected vessels, allowing production and recipe updates to be planned and adjusted precisely.
The systems also helps to guarantee food safety, gathering HACCP data for everything Mustard produces. “It’s vitally important that we maintain the highest standards of traceability, and with ConnectedCooking our quality and technical team can provide up to date HACCP data for each batch produced” says Ashley.
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