BEHIND- THE-SCENES AUTOMATION US foodservice consultant Christine Guyott FCSI, incoming chair of FCSI T e Americas Division and Principal at Rippe Associates, specializes in healthcare foodservice and says one of the most important trends she has noticed in recent months is the growth in robotic deliveries. Rather than having staff members moving carts and trays around, she says, more hospital caterers are using autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) or automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to deliver food, return soiled trays and move items between kitchens. “I’m not talking about robots


fl ipping your burgers,” she says. “Maybe that’s coming, maybe it’s not; but this is about fi nding ways to reduce material management movement in spaces.” For Dempsey, it’s related to


the operational and labor-saving benefi ts operators are seeking from ghost kitchens. “For the next few years, we are going to see reduced footfall and people being careful with their disposable income, so restaurant operators are going to be on the lookout for every single labor- and cost-saving they can fi nd,” he says.


fi nding ways to reduce material management movement in spaces


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EDGING TOWARDS ELECTRIC Guyott is also seeing a move away from natural gas sources in the kitchen, especially on the West Coast of the US. “Operators are aiming for net-zero kitchens and really watching their energy consumption,” she says. “T at’s going to aff ect the industry a lot.” T e challenge for foodservice


businesses is the availability of electric equipment. “I think we need to get ahead of that from a manufacturing standpoint because it’s coming fairly quickly and we don’t have a whole lot of choices at the moment,” she says. Many Ali Group brands have


introduced functionalities to help their clients save energy. For example, the Easy Touch control


Operators are aiming for net- zero kitchens and watching their energy consumption


panel, which comes as standard with all the latest Pavailler lines, includes ‘Eco Mode’, designed to help operators lighten their electricity bills without sacrifi cing temperature or quality, and ‘Expert Mode’, which gives users access to advanced visualization programs so they can track their energy consumption, internal temperatures or technical data (see p58 for more information).


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