Professional chefs know that the digitization of commercial kitchens can no longer be stopped. So it's time to ask which system effectively supports kitchen processes and thus sets new standards in product quality, safety, automation, and service. RATIONAL relies on ConnectedCooking, a free cloud-based solution that brings new impetus to the cooperation between chef and appliance without forgetting the main goal: cooking with ingenuity.
"When developing ConnectedCooking, we always have one question in mind: what tasks require a lot of attention, but can be taken off the chef's plate?" That's how Matthias Lahr, Digital Product Manager at RATIONAL, describes the thought process behind networked kitchens. As an example, he describes someone overseeing three production food service kitchens that produce a total of 800 meals per day. Usually, that's a balancing act: different kitchen equipment, different cooking habits, staff with different levels of experience. And when quality fluctuates, everyone can taste the difference. ConnectedCooking can help with all of this and thus help raise the standard, especially in production food service. Reason enough for us to say that the future belongs to network kitchens, which work via smartphone, tablet, or PC. One kitchen? Two kitchens? More? Either way, ConnectedCooking gives all RATIONAL units access to the exact same cooking programs, plus the chef can access each one with a single click and monitor cooking processes, even remotely. For example, the platform uses push notifications to document parameters like capacity utilization and empty periods so that production processes can be adapted accordingly. Automatic service calls are designed to boost efficiency, too: when an incident occurs, your Service Partner is automatically notified and can get an initial report remotely, which allows them to respond efficiently on site.
Lahr mentions one more important point: "Maintaining hygiene standards is a challenge for every kitchen. That’s why we integrated automatic HACCP documentation into ConnectedCooking." All relevant data is recorded and stored for certain period of time... because chefs' main responsibility is creativity, not temperature records.
