In the foodservice industry, the quality of your equipment often influences the quality and quantity of food served in the dining room. Modernizing your professional kitchen will have a significant impact on your business, both by saving you time and energy and ensuring consistent preparation quality. A smart, connected professional kitchen gives you a huge advantage in staying competitive and overcoming the shortage of skilled labor.

What equipment is available today to help you set up a more efficient, productive, and profitable professional kitchen?

What Is a Smart Professional Kitchen?

In a smart kitchen, your appliances have cutting-edge software that enables them to perform at their best. They also are connected to your cell phone or tablet via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, so you can remotely control them. They record a wide range of operating data to help you optimize your kitchen operations and gain efficiency, safety, and precision.

Equipment for smart professional kitchens

1. Your Smart Professional Kitchen: The Combi Oven

Upgrade your establishment with a modern smart combi oven to take your professional kitchen into a new world of productivity! You will be able to organize your production in a smart and flexible way, regardless of its complexity or the operator's level of knowledge, thanks to an intuitive touch-screen programming. Shorter production times and mixed loads, overnight cooking, hygienic and effortless cleaning, standardized production quality – these are just some possibilities offered by the new-generation combi oven in your smart professional kitchen!

Thanks to the built-in app, you can easily choose your pre-programmed recipes, monitor the status of your oven, collect data, obtain detailed service diagnostics and much more. The data collected by the connected combi oven will provide you with valuable information to improve the efficiency and profitability of your establishment.

2. Your Smart Professional Kitchen: The Refrigeration System

If there is one element you certainly want to upgrade as soon as possible, it's your refrigeration system! A fully connected system allows you to keep a constant eye on your produces, and immediately warns you if any problem arises. This can save you from a major disaster! Smart refrigerators and cold rooms monitor temperature in real time to keep your food at the optimal temperature, reducing waste and ensuring food safety. 

3. Your Smart Professional Kitchen: The Ice Machine

Smart ice machines ever cease to amaze! They feature an integrated app that provides you with real-time diagnostics, troubleshooting assistance, effortless adjustments, guided cleaning, or even appliance-specific information for practical maintenance. You can also program ice level up to a week in advance. Finally, connected ice machines collect additional operational data, which can be displayed on-screen or remotely, to give you early warning of operating problems. You save time and money, while ensuring a constant supply of fresh ice in your smart professional kitchen.

4. Your Smart Professional Kitchen: The Dishwasher 

Smart dishwashers inform you in real time if trouble occurs, so you can quickly take the necessary action. It's the best way to minimize downtime. The app allows you, for example, to set the timer or dose chemicals directly from your smartphone. Among other useful functions in a smart professional kitchen, these dishwashers will also share the progress of the hygiene and cleaning cycle, as well as the various operating costs, to help you optimize your operations.

5. Your Smart Professional Kitchen: The Coffee Machine

Coffee machines with a Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connection are perfect for seminar rooms, hotels, caterers, local coffee shops and much more. Your employees will be able to start the brewing process remotely and select dosage and temperature preferences from their smartphone or tablet. You will be able to offer specialty coffees prepared in no time and perfect every time.

Employees in your smart professional kitchen will also benefit from information on the cleaning and maintenance status of the coffee machine, as well as being able to monitor usage statistics and water levels. Some connected coffee machines even give you the option of initiating a touchless order when preferable.     

6. Your Smart Professional Kitchen: The Robot Server   

Although not yet numerous in today's landscape, they are becoming a major asset in many labor-short restaurants, grocery stores and healthcare establishments.

Robots servers like Browne's IAssist are especially designed to solve staff shortage problems, offering a fun, interactive experience for your customers. New navigation technologies built into robots servers enable them to move fluidly around the dining room without impeding traffic flow.

By using an IAssist service robot to complement your smart professional kitchen, you will be able to reduce trips back and forth to the kitchen, clear more tables faster, replace an absent employee and remotely manage it right from your phone. 

Setting up a smart professional kitchen is an increasingly necessary and major step for all types of establishments. They are rapidly transforming the food service sector, giving you the opportunity to improve your operational efficiency, productivity, and profitability.

To find out more about how implementing a smart professional kitchen can benefit your establishment, contact one of our experts! 

Set up your smart professional kitchen!