City Market, Comercial Mexicana. Mexiko City, Mexico.

“With RATIONAL we have managed to reduce our production time to half and save 20% of our raw materials.” - Chef Carlos Pulido, deputy director food and beverages

RATIONAL means the best technology in the market.

Comercial Mexicana is a company originated in 1930, it emerged as a shop in downtown Mexico City, with only 10 employees selling mops and fabrics. It gradually expanded the variety of its articles, until it became one of the largest supermarket chains in Mexico. Offering different store concepts that include Bodega Comercial Mexicana, Sumesa, City Market, Mega and Fresko, Comercial Mexicana’s mission is to be the preferred supermarket for customers, offering the market’s best purchase option in terms of pricing, product range, services and quality.

“City Market” was founded in 2006 as part of the business expansion plan that has always characterized the Comercial Mexicana group. “City Market” aims to serve a specific economic sector, offering gourmet products with the highest quality. “City Market” guarantees comfort, a unique store that still carries the basics, with articles from top brands, for reasonable prices.

The RATIONAL solution.

"City Market’s food section offers customers a variety of real gourmet dishes. Our chef selects the best ingredients and surprises us every day with his creations. Our clients appreciate the variety of meals. In our hot kitchen counter, paella is most successful, as well as meat, cheese and fish dishes.”

“The Christmas season is our best-selling time of the year for prepared meals. Previously, we needed to start our cod fish preparation in November, so that we did not run out of it during Christmas season. We cooked turkey in ovens; but the trays were deforming and so did the racks. Afterwards, when we baked cakes, they came out burned on one side. Now with RATIONAL we have solved these problems.”

Benefits:
  • Before using RATIONAL technology, we had a lot of problems and many challenges in regards to standardization and employee fluctuation, which forced us to train our staff continously until we reached the desired quality. Now, with RATIONAL, this is no longer an issue. The quality is always excellent, regardless who is operating the equipment. Furthermore, one of the major benefits that we have noticed cooking with RATIONAL is that products don’t lose weight while being cooked; they now come out faster, 20% bigger, juicier with better quality. We reduced our production time to half. Definitely nobody beats RATIONAL; some copy it, but RATIONAL is unbeatable.”