Discount chains, online ordering services, organic grocery stores, farmers’ markets - traditional supermarket retail is under pressure from all sides. Unique selling points are crucial. New ideas, new concepts, new features. Focused on the future. To encourage customers to linger longer. Multi-faceted approaches. Creating expectations and then fulfilling them. With a bistro, with street food, with a hot deli counter. For lunch, for home, for meals on-the-go. Consistently, reliably delicious every time. Restaurant-quality food. Even if you’re not a chef. Even though trained staff are hard to find. Because you’ve got an expert partner in your corner: RATIONAL.
Cookie-cutter concepts rarely work. Which is why we emphasize individual consultation. Tailored to the questions that matter to you. Focused on your needs. Whether it’s for one supermarket or a chain. Whether you want help in one area or several. Because your success doesn’t hinge on pizza and potato salad - it hinges on having comprehensive concepts and high standards of quality. And maintaining them consistently.
Grab-and-go, bakery, hot food counters, rotisserie? Centralized production or decentralized? What’s located where? What’s right for which location? For your customers? Get inspired. Discover new ideas and let us show you some examples. RATIONAL has the knowledge and experience - whether it’s for kitchen concepts, food production, or the food retail industry.
When it comes down to it, the iCombi Pro only has one job: reliably delivering the same great results every single time. That’s why it’s equipped with so much intelligence - and why it offers such impressive productivity, quality, and simplicity. It detects whether you’re making one burger patty or 20, and adjusts its own parameters automatically. It helps you optimize your production schedule for speed or energy consumption - to keep your hot food counter stocked perfectly, for example.
Fresh, convenience, frozen. American, European, Asian. Meat, fish, poultry, sides, desserts. For a hundred people or several thousand. In concrete numbers: The iCombi Pro 20 half size can prepare up to 160 servings of chicken cordon bleu in a single load. And every one will turn out browned exactly the same. Done to perfection in the blink of an eye. With a lot less oil than you’d need with conventional cooking appliances. Incomparably delicious results you can repeat over and over again. What’s the secret? The iCookingSuite, the cooking intelligence that detects the quantity, size, browning, and condition of the food, and adjusts cooking parameters accordingly. So your broccoli stays crisp, green, and full of nutrients, while your turkey burgers come out juicy inside, with perfect grill marks outside.
Standardization
You can store your own tried-and-true programs to the iCombi Pro and access them at any time. If your cooking system is networked via ConnectedCooking, you can transmit your programs to other systems with just a click, and get the same high-quality results anywhere on the network. Standardization has never been easier.
Crispy, juicy, golden-brown roast chicken – the king of to-go dishes. Now ready in half the time*. Thanks to iDensityControl’s intelligent climate management. Thanks to the iCookingSuite, which knows the way to perfect results. Thanks to the iProductionManager, which ensures that you’ll always have fresh food ready to serve. With no overproduction. And not just chicken - it’s perfect for roast pork, meatloaf, or brisket.
*Compared to a conventional rotary grill.
iProductionManager
The iCombi Pro helps you turn out the same great results over and over. No stress, no additional staff. The cooking system uses preset “shopping carts”, which contain the dishes in your food concept that can be cooked at the same time. When you’re ready to produce, pick the shopping cart you need (“Week 32 Menu”, for example), tap the display, assign dishes to different levels, load the iCombi Pro and you’re all set.
The initial morning rush has passed; time to start producing extra batches. The challenge is producing just enough food - not too much, not too little - so that you’re always serving fresh. And it’s also time for tasty treats like wraps, sandwiches, cookies and muffins. Juggling all of that requires some real organizational skill. Which is where the iProductionManager comes in. It lets you know which foods you can prepare together, and proposes production plans optimized for time or energy consumption. Frozen foods, fresh dough, small pastries, large baked goods, one tray, several trays... No problem. Start the cooking path you want. That’s it. For standardized batch production, for great results on mixed loads. Even in the front area. Because the iCombi Pro has its own extraction hood that makes ventilation systems unnecessary.
Keep a cool head when work turns up the heat. When you need a variety of dishes in large quantities. Or when you’re producing centrally for decentralized sales. With Cook & Chill, for example. It lets you prepare your hot meal components in the iCombi Pro, chill them rapidly, and store them. That way, you can purchase in bulk and prepare food well in advance. That way, you can bring food up to serving temperature when you need it. That way, you can produce your own line of convenience foods for your cold deli counter. That way, you can produce extra batches as necessary. It’s quick and straightforward. And taste, nutrients, color, and texture are all perfectly preserved.
The Finishing process
Container Finishing is particularly suited to large quantities, such as for hot food counters. Just load food you’ve previously prepared into the iCombi Pro, and you’ll have it at serving temperature at the touch of a button. You’ll always have the right quantities of food hot and fresh. Reduces food waste. Easy and safe. Even with convenience foods.
Hygienic interim cleaning in around 12 minutes, or sparkling deep cleaning any time (even overnight) - the iCombi Pro’s iCareSystem handles it all. Simple and safe thanks to phosphate-free cleaner tabs. With a cleaning system that remembers your preferences and starts your favorite program automatically next time around. And with a wide range of installation options to facilitate cleaning, everything stays hygienic under and around the cooking system as well.
Sustainability conserves resources and saves money. Here at RATIONAL, energy-efficient production and logistics, retrieval of old appliances, and raising the energy conservation bar 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 overproduction, all while preparing healthier food.
Day-to-day kitchen life is not for the faint of heart. That’s why RATIONAL combi-steamers are high-quality pieces of equipment designed with durability in mind. We manufacture them in Germany, using the “one person - one unit” principle. In other words, each person working in production is fully responsible for the quality of the systems he or she assembles. You can find their names on the identification plates. We hold our suppliers to the same high standards of quality. our focus is on improving continuously while ensuring that our products remain reliable for many years to come. No wonder that RATIONAL’s oldest combi-steamer has been in use for over 40 years now.
The iCombi Pro isn’t just intelligent when it comes to cooking. It’s a smart saver as well. It saves on labor, energy consumption, space, raw materials, and fat, just to name a few. In short: the difference is obvious.
Short preheating times eliminate the need for stand-by mode. Rolling batches with the iCombi Pro’s iProductionManager save energy as well.
Say goodbye to routine activities like turning, checking, and re-adjusting oven temperatures. The iCombi Pro’s ultra-fast cleaning saves time. It frees up 1-2 hours* every day.
The iCombi Pro replaces around 90% of conventional kitchen equipment. Goodbye tilting skillets, kettles, and deep fryers - hello freedom of movement. Or additional retail space.
The iCombi Pro adjusts its own cooking processes precisely, which reduces cooking and trimming losses. Which cuts your raw materials usage by up to 20%.
The controls on the iCombi Pro are self-explanatory, so new personnel can master them in no time. RATIONAL chefs will train you and your employees based on your own food concept or one created for you by RATIONAL, so that you’ll get perfect results effortlessly from the very beginning.
For your success.
Individual training, train-the-trainer, motivated employees, satisfied customers.
If you don’t have a leg up on the competition today, you might not have customers tomorrow. Which makes it that much more important to regularly evaluate your concepts, generate input, and implement new ideas. That goes for your lunch and snack ideas as well as for your brand concept. And RATIONAL can help with all of the above. We offer expertise. We offer experience. We offer new ideas. We offer flexible cooking systems. And we’ll always build on what we’ve already achieved together.
What does the future hold?
A wealth of new ideas and concepts to help you keep impressing your customers again and again.
Everyone talks about networking. The iCombi Pro actually has it. It comes equipped with a wireless interface you can use to access ConnectedCooking, RATIONAL’s secure online platform. So your turkey breast recipe turned out well? Forward it to the other cooking systems on your network. No matter where they’re located. Which of your systems is being used now? Keep tabs on them with your smartphone. Need inspiration? Head to the recipe database. Software updates? Installed to your systems at the push of a button. What about HACCP data? One-click access. And if you prefer, the iCombi Pro will even call your service technician for you.
ConnectedCooking
High-performance networking by RATIONAL. So you’ll always have everything under control.
Enough theory - time for practice! Nothing’s more convincing than seeing it for yourself. Experience RATIONAL cooking systems up close, see their intelligent features in action, and learn how they can work for you. Live and at no obligation - right in your area. Call us or send us an email if you have any questions, or if you’d like to discuss RATIONAL cooking systems and how they can meet your individual needs.
Service and customer support are important at RATIONAL. From initial consultations and trial cooking to test units, installation, and worldwide training - not to mention automatic software updates and the ChefLine hotline for individual questions - we’ve covered all the bases. You can also turn to Academy RATIONAL for additional training on specific topics, such as Finishing. And if an emergency ever arises, RATIONAL’s worldwide service network will be there in no time.
Designed to help you make the most of your investment
and gain enjoyment for years to come... and ensure that you’re never short of ideas.
