Halifax Convention Centre. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
The largest convention centre in the Canadian Maritimes.
The new and improved kitchen.
The Eastern Coast of Canada is known for many things - a beautiful view of the Atlantic Ocean, great people and some of the best seafood in the country. This makes Halifax a popular tourist destination and a highly sought after location for corporations and organizations to host events. With only a handful of venue options, many of them quite dated, there was a significant opportunity for a new convention centre. With that, the Halifax Convention Centre built and moved into a brand new state of the art location in the heart of the city in early 2018.
Executive Chef Christophe took full advantage of this opportunity to open a brand new kitchen for the operation. He eagerly partook in the designing and planning of the convention centre's new kitchen. His firm belief that every kitchen should be safe, hygienic and efficient inspired many of his ideas. What resulted was a high-caliber kitchen that is nothing short of incredible.
Prior to moving to the new location, Chef Christophe had already witnessed how the SelfCookingCenter® created a more efficient kitchen. “In the original convention centre location, our first RATIONAL unit paid for itself in saved labour, energy, and food cost in just nine months. We soon bought a second, third and fourth unit,” shares Chef Christophe. “It was obvious that the SelfCookingCenter® would become a key component in the new kitchen design.”
“Our first RATIONAL paid for itself in saved labour and food cost in just nine months.”
Executive Chef Christophe.
The RATIONAL Solution.
The newly opened Halifax Convention Centre can host up to 2,000 people. Halifax is known for their great food, therefore it puts the pressure on the banqueting team to serve a superb dining experience to thousands of tourists at the same time. This is why Chef Christophe's experience with banqueting was critical to the kitchen's design.
Altogether there are fourteen SelfCookingCenter® units on site. The majority of the units are full sized 202 units that are used along with the RATIONAL Finishing® systems. This enables them to spend more time preparing their plates in advance. They also have a SelfCookingCenter® that is exclusively for the in house baker.
Beyond finding powerful efficiencies with the SelfCookingCenter®, Chef Christophe shared that the real value was in the quality of the dishes created. “Incorporating the SelfCookingCenter® in our kitchen has enabled us to produce a higher level of consistency, which is vital for banqueting. It also allowed us to really push the boundaries on our menu development, which has been well received from our clients.”
Customer benefit:
- The banqueting team is able to provide a consistent 5-star dining experience to up 2,000 guests at the same time
- Easy programing for seamless consistency
- Chef Christophe and his team now have more time to focus on pushing their dinning experience even further
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