MINNEAPOLIS — Restaurant Technologies is pleased to announce its most recent partnerships with two large retailers: Ahold Delhaize and Kroger Fry's Food Stores. Responding to the increased consumer demand for high-quality grab-and-go and prepared foods, these brands have adopted Restaurant Technologies' oil management technology to help revolutionize their deli operations.
FMI's US Grocery Shopper Trends 2017 report found that 67 percent of households with children and 44 percent of households without children outsource cooking to the grocery store at least some of the time. This trend is expected to continue, imparting even more pressure across grocery deli operators to provide high-quality food options to consumers.
"Now more than ever, having a deli operation that functions as efficiently as any commercial restaurant kitchen is critical," said Jim English, director of national accounts, Restaurant Technologies. "Automating your deli's oil management can help keep employees safe, provide efficiencies in the kitchen, and help ensure you're serving a high-quality fried food product."
Grocery delis are typically located far from the back dock, which can present some unique challenges in oil management. For example, employees are sometimes required to transport hot, used cooking oil through aisles of the store, making them more vulnerable to slip-and-fall injuries or burns.
For these reasons, Ahold Delhaize and Kroger Fry's Food Stores plan to adopt Restaurant Technologies' Total Oil Management system, a technology that automates the entire life cycle of fryer oil, to help the brands address these unique challenges.
Ahold Delhaize Delivers Consistent Working Environments
Previously, Ahold Delhaize's employees were manually changing cooking oil and disposing of it in a rendering tank outside of the store, with no visibility tools to assist in managing their oil and filtration activity. This process resulted in inefficiencies in labor productivity and oil usage, safety issues, and inconsistencies with standard operating procedures from market to market.
After testing the Total Oil Management system in 16 of their company's stores, Ahold Delhaize has signed on to install the system in a total of 347 stores. The roll-out is underway and will be completed in 2018.
"Automating our manual oil management process will help eliminate inefficiencies in labor and oil usage," said Dan Laviola, Category Manager, Ahold Delhaize. "Additionally, this technology will simplify our operations, help us improve food quality and, most importantly, provide a safer working environment for our employees."
Fry's Food Stores Works to Reduce Oil Waste
Fry's, a Kroger brand, was previously disposing of its used cooking oil at such a high frequency that it resulted in an increased likelihood of unsafe working conditions and wasted oil usage. Fry's heard about the Total Oil Management system from Restaurant Technologies and decided to give it a try. The oil management system is now installed in 117 Fry's stores in Arizona.
To learn more about Restaurant Technologies and its role in helping grocery store food service operations, visit www.rti-inc.com/industries/grocery-convenience.
About Restaurant Technologies™
A trusted partner for more than 15 years, Restaurant Technologies is the leading provider of cooking-oil management and back-of-house exhaust cleaning solutions to over 25,000 national quick-service and full-service restaurant chains, independent restaurants, grocery delis, hotels, casinos, universities and hospitals. Restaurant Technologies helps foodservice operators make their kitchens safer, smarter, more efficient and more sustainable through its automated oil storage, handling, filtration monitoring and disposal management systems and AutoMist™ automated exhaust cleaning solutions. Headquartered in Mendota Heights, Minn., Restaurant Technologies is a privately held company, currently operates 40 depots and has more than 1000 employees serving customers across the United States. For additional Restaurant Technologies information and news, visit http://rti-inc.com. Follow Restaurant Technologies on Twitter @RTIoil, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Source: Restaurant Technologies™