Case Study
Heaters Deliver Home Cooked Flavor
Heaters Deliver Home Cooked Flavor Problem: A restaurant equipment manufacturer wanted to successfully enter the fast growing Cook-N-Chill market. The Cook-N-Chill method involves cooking large quantities of food completely at a central location. The food is bagged in smaller quantities and quickly chilled to just above freezing. These bags can be stored up to 45 days. The bags can be transported to remote locations and reconstituted by re-thermalizing (heating up quickly). This process is popular because: 1. The food has a home-cooked flavor as the components are allowed to mingle 2. Waste is minimized 3. The food can be transported to remote locations Typical users for this method include hospitals, prisons, armed forces, schools, universities and airlines. Key to this method of food dis