Food & Drink Awards 2020

Page 38 www.lux-review.com LUX 2020 Food & Drink Awards The Picnic Pizza Solution streamlines pizza making so you can focus on what matters - your food, your brand, and the satisfaction of your customers. The company launched its automated pizza assembly system on Oct. 1, 2019, and has received an incredible endorsement from the food industry, media, and customers from around the world. Picnic provides a modular, easy to use, automated pizza assembly system that works with your recipe to top dough with precise amounts of sauce, cheese, meat, and veggies, and sends them directly to your oven. The system makes consistent, delicious pizza with lower food waste requiring a fraction of the labour all while greatly reducing human contact with food ingredients for superior safety and cleanliness standards. The food industry has been experiencing a digital transformation and looking to technology to help solve changing consumer preferences for delivery, carry out, and convenience. Food technology like robotics and automation have been among the most widely adopted and appealing to kitchens looking to enhance their operations. Additionally, the COVID-19 global pandemic has businesses looking for new ways to prepare their food that has limited human contact with the highest standard of hygiene and helps employees make a consistently delicious product. This has led to increased customer interest around Picnic’s contact-free, high hygiene, food preparation, and intensified Any company that produces a product needs to constantly improve upon its processes to stay ahead, and commercial kitchens are no different. Picnic has been working with kitchens and food producers to develop quality automation solutions that improve efficiency in making pizzas for the last year. Sep20396 Picnic Leading Innovators in Automated Food Preparation 2020 demand in Picnic’s solutions even further. Picnic’s solutions enable pizza companies to streamline these needs and provides a solution that has a small footprint, contactless pizza preparation, easy installation, and no upfront fees. The Picnic automated pizza system can make hundreds of fully customizable pizzas per hour using the customer’s own recipe with a combination of an intuitive touch screen interface, optional POS integration, and a customer portal to monitor ingredients. Picnic works closely with its customers to ensure that their customized pizza recipe is executed with perfect precision and consistency, while reducing food waste by eliminating overtopping and spillage. Clayton Wood, CEO of Picnic commented on the needs of the market stating that “Picnic competes in the automated assembly and delivery sector of the food industry. This sector is a relatively new segment that is in high demand by operators of kitchens as they look to increase the quality and consistency of their food, reduce labour and ensure their food is made with the highest hygiene standards. COVID-19 has only enhanced the demand for this type of product.” “Picnic is proud to be participating in this emerging segment of food preparation and is committed to delivering a top-quality system to kitchen owners, while ensuring they always serve delicious pizzas to their customers,” said Wood. Picnic has handpicked a dedicated team to design and develop their system. The staff consists primarily of both hardware and software engineers and designers. The culture at Picnic is intense, but with a friendly atmosphere. Among the team, there is a very strong passion for the products that they make, backed up by the knowledge that their systems are helping kitchens to become more successful. As such, the solution offered by Picnic is one of the best in class. The company is committed to delivering automated food technology that is easy for kitchen owners to install, operate, and maintain, three key elements needed for any automation provider looking to stand out in the crowd. Picnic has served the pizza-making industry very well. Due to the talent of the design and engineering team, plus the flexibility of the platform that Picnic use, the company has big plans to expand their line and begin producing automation equipment for a variety of different foods. Contact: Don Coyner Company: Picnic Web Address: www.hellopicnic.com