Encore Catering. Detroit, MI USA.

Dynamic catering revving in Motor City.

Encore Catering & Banquet Center in St. Clair Shores, Michigan offers distinctive weddings, private events, corporate events, memorial luncheons, showers, birthday parties and more. Encore also has a mobile kitchen for on-site catering.

Led by Chef Bobby Nahra, Encore aims to make every event a unique and memorable experience with gourmet dishes and customized menus. Using intelligent programing of Encore’s recipes, the team has been able to scale up their operation and add new menu items while maintaining quality.

“Once we've trained somebody in a simple training process, it makes the process of making that entrée for thousands of people or 500 people consistent. It's the same every single time.”

Chef Bobby Nahra, Owner and Chef of Encore Catering.

Goal

Prepare high quality food that maintains the highest degree of consistency and deliciousness across events

Approach

  • Install RATIONAL combi-steamer banquet center kitchen
  • Adapt established recipes
  • Preprogram commonly used recipes for consistency

Equipment

  • 1 – iCombi Pro 10-full
Results:
  • Outstanding consistency
  • Quantifiable back-of-house labor savings
  • Reduced training with new employees
  • Higher quantity production capacities