As employees are returning to work in the office, there has been a rise in demand for restaurants, workplace cafeterias, and business catering. While some employees continue working remotely, those who are returning to the office are looking for quick and easy products to satisfy lunchtime and snack cravings. Thus, restaurants, catering companies, and quick foodservice providers will benefit from understanding how Marlen’s industrial food production equipment produces pre-cooked foods which reduces meal preparation times. Marlen’s selection of continuous flame grills, ovens, and chillers, as well as their sous vide cooking lines and batch smokehouses, offer streamlined, reliable solutions to pre-cook food products, which reduces at-location food preparation time.
Save Time by Saving Labor
One area in which food manufacturers can save a lot of time is by reducing their dependence on labor. As has been widely reported, there has been a labor shortage of food service and food manufacturing company employees. Having the right manufacturing equipment in your facility will address these staffing shortages by streamlining production processes, thereby reducing the amount of personnel required to produce the same amount of food products. This allows food manufacturers to redeploy their workforce to other areas of the facility, thereby saving on overall labor hours. Further, foodservice providers which use pre-cooked foods also save time by saving on labor. Reheating pre-cooked foods on-site is a major time savor for foodservice providers facing increased demand from customers who have returned to working from the office.
Use Pre-Cooked Foods to Reduce Waste
Production from Marlen’s line of industrial food processing equipment can be fully adapted to a customer’s demand. This means that a restaurant can receive a delivery of ready-made food that needs only to be heated through, so they have exactly what they need to meet that demand. This can help a foodservice provider’s goal in reducing their food waste: by ordering pre-cooked meals according to demand, less product will need to be wasted.
Further, producing pre-cooked foods for restaurants can help increase shelf life which also helps to reduce overall food waste. With modern packing techniques and technologies, pre-cooked packaged foods have a considerable shelf life when kept properly refrigerated. By reducing microbial activity and water activity, modifying the containers the pre-cooked food product is stored in, and using additives and increased acidity, the shelf life of these pre-cooked food products can be extended. This extended shelf life helps reduce overall food waste from restaurants by allowing them to hold onto prepared foods longer than they might have otherwise.
Marlen is Your Process Partner
Marlen has been trusted by leading food brands for over 60 years and assures value to its customers through the highest consistency, accuracy, and product integrity. Marlen’s teams of expert engineers, design, and technical personnel consult, collaborate, and partner with food processors across the globe to create custom innovative solutions for their food processing business. From vacuum stuffing and pumping, portioning, size reduction, thermal processing, and food handling, Marlen’s food processing equipment solutions are backed by a global network of certified technicians who are equipped to perform installation, start-up, preventive maintenance, emergency service, and any on-site equipment service required. With parts, sales, and service operations in Riverside, Missouri, Nieuwpoort, Belgium, and Bangkok, Thailand, we’re prepared to deliver the quality and performance expected by a true process partner. So, if you’re considering innovative food processing solutions for your food products, it’s the company behind the machine that makes the difference.
