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.

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.

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.

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.

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