The Brass Taps Pub. Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Creating a more efficient kitchen.

Perhaps the top priority was reducing food and labour costs. The pub’s primary customer is university students, and the price point needs to be kept low, creating a continual challenge for the kitchen.

RATIONAL ovens allow Prince and his team to do more in the kitchen, faster, elevating quality while reducing costs. They’re also able to use the entirety of a product. For example, their smoked ham cooks overnight, rendering a fall-off-the-bone product the following morning. They use the bones to make a rich homemade stock used in other recipes. Before the RATIONAL, they would have ordered cuts of meat from a provider at a higher cost and a lesser quality.

The bakers use the RATIONAL for proofing and have achieved great time savings as a result. “The baking team was very impressed and almost didn’t believe it was possible,” Prince says. They use the RATIONAL for bagels, pizza shells and a variety of fresh baked goods.

“Product quality is never compromised because the probe enables us to get consistent results every time,” Prince said. They have perfected multiple cooking programs, testing and refining until they achieve the desired results and then saving them for future use.