Good food is like good conversation.
Colorful, cheerful, full of variety. For lunch, to watch the game, for after-work drinks and appetizers. Cheese sticks, burgers, Buddha bowls, steak, Caesar salad. With family, with friends. Your customers love what you do. They come for your signature dish, for reliably great food, for the conversation. It never gets boring, that’s the main thing. Which is why you have to keep coming up with new ideas, new dishes, new preparation methods. While still meeting your customers’ expectations. Despite cost pressures, a lack of trained staff, a small kitchen. How about adding a delivery service? Or putting seasonal dishes on the menu? Every change is a new challenge. Well, of course – that’s what makes it fun.
Serving guests never stops, and nothing less than perfection will suffice. Which is what makes good peak-time preparation so essential. Using a cooking system that handles routine tasks, can handle any cooking application imaginable, produces the same great quality again and again, and works intelligently thanks to iCookingSuite. Food size, quantity, browning level, condition? Detected, cooking parameters adjusted, production planning applied. Ready, go. Tells you which dishes can be prepared together. Suggests an ideal sequence, optimized for time or energy use. Frozen foods, fresh products, baked goods, side dishes, one tray, several trays... No problem. Set the results you want, start the cooking process. That’s all there is to it. Done to perfection in the blink of an eye. And it’s all stress-free, because there’s no need to supervise – no matter who’s operating the cooking system.
Eight customers, eight different dishes. Finger food, tapas, burgers, pizza, chicken wings, French fries. And that’s just at one table – what about all the others? The kitchen’s running full steam ahead. And so is iProductionManager. Which now prepares different dishes at the same time: Wedges and chicken wings, tandoori chicken and fried zucchini, apple crumble and baguettes. Quick, delicious, stress-free, even with new or inexperienced staff.
Tip: Finishing
The challenges: Offering a variety of food, having it ready on schedule. The solution: Separate production and service with Finishing in the iCombi Pro. Produce food in advance, chill it in containers or vacuumsealed, and then bring it up to temperature when an order comes in. For more flexibility, better results, happier customers.
Spare ribs, pulled pork, beef brisket. Onion rings, potato gratin, broccoli. The iCombi Pro can do them all. By itself, in fact. Because you can create your own intelligent cooking paths and save them to the cooking system. It’s easy: Test your recipe, save the results you want, and transmit the cooking path to all of your iCombi Pro units. Using a USB stick. Or with ConnectedCooking, RATIONAL’s networking solution. Thanks to the simple, self-explanatory operating system, employees can then access the intelligent cooking path. For your signature dish. For your side dishes. And with the assurance that you’ll always serve the results loved by your customers.
Shopping carts
The cooking system uses preset “shopping carts” to determine which of your dishes can be cooked together. Just tap the correct shopping cart on the display (Daily Special, for example), assign dishes to different levels, load the iCombi Pro and you’re all set. You can use ConnectedCooking to transmit your shopping carts to all your locations. Without leaving your office.
MyDisplay
MyDisplay eliminates user error and keeps results uniform. Choose the dishes you want shown on the display as images or icons. Just tap them, and the iCombi Pro will get to work. You can add or delete recipes just as easily. To all of your networked cooking systems, thanks to ConnectedCooking. Right from your desk. And you can count on getting the same results every time, because nothing can be changed without your approval.
Food safety and work safety are both important. Especially in food service. And you can count on the iCombi Pro in both respects. Hygienic cleanliness with the iCareSystem, automatic HACCP documentation – which you can access from anywhere through ConnectedCooking. Work safely thanks to the maximum tray height of 5 feet and 3 inches. And the easy-to-learn controls render user error practically impossible, so that all your food will reach a safe core temperature.
Squeaky clean
Ultra-fast interim cleaning in just 12 minutes, standard and eco-mode cleaning with descaling, using phosphate-free cleaner tabs, even overnight. In short: The iCombi Pro is always ready for its closeup. So you’ll never face long downtimes. So you can steam right after you grill. So there’s no flavor transfer.
Sustainability conserves resources and saves money. Here at RATIONAL, energy-efficient production and logistics, recycling of old appliances, and raising the bar for energy conservation are all par for the course. And with the iCombi Pro, sustainability will become just as self-evident in your kitchen. Compared to conventional kitchen equipment, you’ll save energy, reduce your raw materials usage, and decrease your overproduction, all while preparing healthier food.
Energy expenses reduced up to 70%*
Short preheating times eliminate the need for stand-by mode. Rolling batches with the iCombi Pro’s iProductionManager save energy as well.
Reduced working time
Say goodbye to routine activities like turning, checking, and re-adjusting oven temperatures. The iCombi Pro’s ultra-fast cleaning saves even more time. Which leaves you 1-2 more hours* every day for other things.
30%* lower space requirements
The iCombi Pro replaces around 90% of conventional kitchen equipment. Goodbye tilting skillets, pots, pans, and deep fryers – hello freedom of movement. Or additional retail space.
Reduce raw product use by up to 25%*
The iCombi Pro adjusts its own cooking processes precisely, which reduces cooking and trimming losses. And its results are always equally good, from the first tray to the last – which significantly reduces food waste. That adds up to savings on raw product.
“When I first saw RATIONAL at a show, I was impressed, but I thought it was a little out of my price range. Now I’m on my fourth RATIONAL. We could not have grown without RATIONAL, we would have needed a 20-burner stove and the footprint and the manpower just would not have been possible.”
ConnectedCooking.
In foodservice, networking is the rule, not the exception. Ordering, billing, service – everything’s digital, everything’s coordinated. Just like ConnectedCooking by RATIONAL. Recipe transmission, unit inspections, hygiene data, software updates, MyDisplay settings, shopping carts, service remote access - our secure networking solution lets you manage everything centrally from your desk. For all networked RATIONAL cooking systems. At any location. You can also access and save HACCP data from all cooking systems. Have a new weekly special? Send it around the world with just a click. All you need is a PC, a smartphone, or a tablet. Standardization has never been easier.
Different kitchen concepts require different cooking systems. Producing centrally and Finishing remotely? Display cooking? Using the iCombi Pro as a little extra in the kitchen, to expand your menu options? The cooking system is extremely flexible in terms of size, too. Carefully manufactured, very robust. High production standards, suppliers with high quality standards, continuous improvement - to make sure our units keep running for years to come. No wonder that the oldest RATIONAL combisteamer has been in use for over 40 years now. For information on additional models and installation options, visit us at rationalonline.com
