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XpressChef HEATED TO PERFECTION
At Maisie Eatery, an artisan eatery inside Calgary’s Sam Centre, beautifully displayed made-from-scratch creations never fail to stop customers in their tracks. With a daily changing menu of some 100 SKUs including salads, sandwiches, savory baked goods and pastries, maintaining a well-organized kitchen is essential for chef and founder Barbara Spain. When designing the kitchen, Spain found an ideal solution in the MRX2 XpressChef®
from
Accelerated Cooking Products (ACP, Inc.). After running four restaurants in Dublin,
moving to Calgary and opening Cleaver restaurant and Gringo Street, Spain met the people behind Sam Centre. She envisioned a destination restaurant where visitors could visit the galleries and then have lunch with their
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families. Customers could also stop by for a coffee and pastry in the morning, a hearty lunch or a cocktail and snack in the late afternoon. “Everything on offer at Maisie is literally right
in front of you on the display line,” says Spain. “Everything is down to a T. We are enjoying what we are doing because we are organized.” Prior to purchasing equipment, Spain spent
the day at one of the test kitchens of Food Service Solutions, a North American distributor of commercial foodservice equipment led by chef consultants. Mark McEwan, executive chef consultant/western sales director, walked Spain through the equipment. Initially, Spain was interested in combi ovens, but McEwan had other ideas. Now, at Maisie Eatery, two MRX2 XpressChef countertop high-speed
ovens perform a variety of duties in a very fast process. “By the time customers are done with their transaction, they have a hot beverage and hot food in their hands,” says McEwan. The ovens also play a key role in re-serving
food. Microwave technology helps penetrate heat all the way through the product. “We are re-temping things like sausage rolls and pasties,” says Spain. “The oven creates a crispy, flaky pastry when it’s re-temped and heats the internal as well. So, you are giving back the product that might have been cold, but it tastes like it came fresh out of the oven.” The XpressChef high-speed oven also provides consistency with its preset capabilities. “There’s no guesswork for our staff,” says Spain. “It’s brilliant and does exactly what it’s meant to do.”
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