Awards.
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Dieselmedallie 2018

Category "Most successful innovation", Deutsches Institut für Erfindungswesen.
German Design Award 2018

Award for the SelfCookingCenter^® XS, Category "Excellent Product Design - Kitchen", German Design Council
Snacking d’Or 2018 award for ConnectedCooking

Awards for the suppliers of the quick service food industry, France
Intergastra Innovationspreis 2018

Award for ConnectedCooking, Category “cooking technology”, Intergastra Germany.
Küche Award Gold 2017

Germany's chefs chose the most successful product innovations
2017

Innovation challenge Innovation Award "Gold winner", SelfCookingCenter^® XS, The Commercial Kitchen Show
CSP's 2017 Best New Product Contest, Foodservice Equipment category, CSP Magazine
Smart Label Award, SelfCookingCenter^® and ConnectedCooking, HOST 2017, Mailand
Internorga Show Star 2017, ConnectedCooking, Internorga 2017, Hamburg
Top 100 des Mittelstands, Munich Strategie Group
Starchefs XS, SelfCookingCenter^® XS, Starchefs USA
Großer Preis des Mittelstandes 2017

Finalist RATIONAL AG, Oskar-Patzelt-Stiftung
Star Award 2017

SelfCookingCenter^® XS, Magazin Top Hotel
Chefs´ Choice Awards

2016: Best Combi Oven and the Best Equipment Brand
2015:Restaurant magazine`s annual Chefs´ Choice Awards RATIONAL comes top in the best equipment category and is winner as the best combi-oven
Manufacturing Excellence Awards

2016: overall winner and awarded für logistics and network management
2015: awarded for customer orientation and logistics
2010: awarded for “customer focus”, Germany
2006: 1st place in the Customer Focus category, Germany
Superpartner 2016

First place in the category „Large appliances – thermal“, Awarded by the members of the industry
CEDA Supplier Awards 2016

Category Heavy Equipment, UK
Catering Insight Award 2015

Supplier of the Year: Business Development
Deutschlands innovativster Mittelständler 2015

Magazine 'Wirtschaftswoche'
Kitchen Innovations Award

2017: SelfCookingCenter^® XS
2016: KitchenManagement System
2015: SelfCookingCenter^®
2014: VarioSmoker
2012: National Restaurant Association für den innovativen und nachhaltigen RATIONAL VarioSmoker
2009: National Restaurant Association für CareControl
2006: National Restaurant Association, New York Restaurant-Hotel-Motel Show
2005: National Restaurant Association, New York Restaurant-Hotel-Motel Show
BEST of Market

2017: Category “Combi-Steamer", Germany
2015: 1st Place Category “Combi-Steamer", Germany
2013: 1st Place Category “Refining procedure”, Germany
German GEO Award (Global Excellence in Operations)

2014: A.T. Kearney, "Produktion" business magazine
2003: A.T. Kearney, "Produktion" business magazine
Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards

2017: Dolphin in Gold, category "Marketing" B2B for the movie "An idea is changing the world"
2014: Dolphin in Silver, category "Marketing" for the corporate movie "4 chefs – 4 journeys"
Customer-Innovation-Award 2014

Winner in the category „Technology", with the SelfCookingCenter^® 5 Senses
German institute for service quality, 2014

Magazine 'DUB UNTERNEHMER', Goethe University Frankfurt
Lean & Green Management Award 2014

Winner in the category „Producing industry, medium-sized companies"
Corporate Excellence Award

2014: "Best Company in Germany"
2013: "Best Company in Germany"
2012: Europe
Grünes Band

2018: Award for sustainability in the away-from-home-market, Germany
2016: Award for sustainability in the away-from-home-market, Germany
2014: Award for sustainability in the away-from-home-market, Germany
2011: Award for sustainability in the out-of-home-Market, Category Energy, Germany (Trade Fair Intergastra, Feb. 2012)
Axia Award 2013 Region Bavaria

Award for "Think sustainably, manage successfully“, Germany
Bavarian Award for medium-sized Companies 2013

Germany
Bavaria‘s Best 50

2016: Germany
2013: Germany
2011: Germany
2008: Germany
Industrial Award

2013: Best of 2013
2012: Best of 2012
Germany's most customer-oriented service provider 2013

second place as the best B2B Company
Bavarian Quality Award 2013

Highest Quality in the Industry, Germany
Best Innovator 2012/2013

Award for the new pioneering RATIONAL innovation process, Germany
Catering Star

2016: 1st Place Category “cooking technology”, Germany
2012: 1st Place Category “Refining procedure”, Germany
2008: for the best cooking technology, Germany
European Business Award „Ruban D`Honneur 2011"
2011 Construction Award

from KFC Japan
Intermedia-globe SILVER Award

Grand Prix Victoria for the SelfCookingCenter^® whitefficiency^® movie
Gold Innovation Award and Green Excellence Award

for the SelfCookingCenter^® whitefficiency^®, HOST trade fair 2011, Milan
2011 Company of the Year Pinnacle Award

Supplier of the Year, „Foodservice and Hospitality Magazine", Canada
2010

Production Systems:
Award in the category „Best Practice“, Germany
Best GVmanager magazine:
1st place for quality, service, price/performance, Germany
YUM! Achievement Award Equipment:
KFC, Japan
Best Supplier Award:
KFC, UK
2009

Küche Award technology:
1st place for CareControl, Germany
LACP – International Vision Award:
Silver award for the 2009 annual report, USA
2008

Best in Class Award:
for food service, USA
Innovation prize for design, research and development for the German gas industry:
Germany
NAGRODA MT Polska:
Euro Gastro, Poland
Best Marketing Company Award:
Germany
Best Practice Award:
International Best Factory Awards 2008, Germany
2007

Strategy prize for mechanical engineering:
Germany
TASTE 07, TOP Innovation at ANUGA:
Germany
Best in Class Award:
Foodservice, USA
Kentucky Fried Chicken (YUM!):
Top-Partner 2007, China
Küche Award:
1st place for cooking and stove technology, Germany
International Best Service Award:
Germany
2006

APRIA prize:
France
The best factory:
Insead and Vallendar Management Schools, France/Germany
German Investor Relations Prize:
DIRK, Germany
Gastro-Innovation Prize:
DEHOGA, Baden-Württemberg
2005

Dr. Georg Triebe Innovation Award:
for the SelfCooking Center^®, designers’ association, Germany
Produit nouveau de l´année:
Montreal Salon Rest-Hotel 2005, Canada, April 2005
2004

Manufacturer of the Year:
Electric Food Service Council, USA
Best of Show:
Kenneth F. Hine New Product Award 2004, USA
Best New Product:
Editors Choice Award 2004, USA, November 2004
GRAND PRIX APRIA:
Innovation, France
Editor´s Choice Award:
Category "Restaurant", International Hotel, Motel & Restaurant Show, New York
Manufacturer of Year:
FCSI Award, USA
Company of the Year:
2nd place on the SDAX, Focus Money
Investor Relations Prize:
3rd place on the SDAX, Capital
Gastro Innovation Prize
2003

Vision Award - Annual Report Competition:
League of American Communications Professionals
Product Innovation of the Year:
Foodservice Equipment and Supplies 2003, USA
Best Company:
2nd place on the SDAX, Focus Money