The keys to your success: surprising, impressing, fascinating. With ambiance, service, unique ideas - and especially with a great food concept. Because you want to set yourself apart from other hotel categories, reinforce customer loyalty, and make money with food and beverage service. But what looks natural and easy to your guests requires a lot of hard work in the kitchen. Why not delegate some of that? To intelligent systems that learn from you, anticipate your needs, and remember your preferences. Systems that support your kitchen team.
That’s a lot to promise. The recipe for success: a whole new world of possibilities in terms of both cooking and kitchen setup. With two cooking systems capable of covering more than 90% of all conventional cooking applications. Systems that are intelligent. That have the same simple operating system. That are easy to learn. That can be used flexibly on quantities of any size. That can produce a huge variety of food. That deliver the same great results over and over again. That meet the strictest hygienic requirements.
When it comes down to it, the iCombi Pro only has one job: preparing food exactly the way you want it, every single time. That’s why it’s equipped with so much intelligence - and why it offers such impressive productivity, quality, and simplicity. It detects whether you’re making one steak or 20, and adjusts its own parameters automatically. It helps you optimize your production schedule for speed or energy consumption - to keep your breakfast buffet perfectly stocked, for example.
Intelligent technology boils, pan-fries, and deep-fries in a single unit. And replaces numerous individual appliances like tilt skillets, kettles, and deep fryers. Which saves space, reduces investment costs, and guarantees excellent results. In banquet kitchens, as a tabletop unit in a front area. Like the new iVario Pro, which brings precision, productivity, speed, and flexibility into your kitchen.
Morning, noon, evening. Breakfast, banquets, à-la-carte lunch, room service. And don't forget snacks, staff meals, and desserts. Serving guests never stops, and nothing less than perfection will suffice. Which makes having a well-designed kitchen concept that much more important. With cooking systems that take routine jobs off your hands, that have mastered every cooking application imaginable, that offer amazing versatility, that produce the same quality results over and over again, that work intelligently thanks to iCookingSuite. Like the iVario Pro - for pasta, stews, and sauces, for example. It offers extraordinary precision: no burning, no boiling over. Or the iCombi Pro for casseroles, roasts, and vegetables.
Diverse, healthy, cold, hot - that’s how breakfast should be. Whatever your guests’ preferences, a great breakfast makes a big impression. Now all you have to do is stock the buffet with exactly the right amount of fresh, crisp food that’s the perfect consistency, ideally for several hours. Sounds complicated? It’s never been easier. You can do bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs and French toast at the same time in the iCombi Pro. Or hash browns and grilled tomatoes. Or hard rolls, croissants, and baguettes. The iProductionManager tells you which foods can be cooked together, manages your production processes, and automatically messages you when it’s time to load or unload.
Shopping carts
The iCombi Pro helps you produce the same high quality results over and over. With zero effort. It uses preset “shopping carts”, which contain the dishes in your food concept that can be cooked at the same time. When you’re ready to produce, pick the shopping cart you need (Breakfast, for example), tap the display, assign dishes to different levels, load the iCombi Pro and you’re all set.
À-la-carte operations face a long list of challenges: food has to be good, it has to be varied, it has to be ready right on schedule. Which means your processes have to be well-organized, and your kitchen team needs to be agile and flexible. By separating food production and service completely, for example. And guaranteeing great-quality results. How? With Finishing in the iCombi Pro: Produce food in advance, plate it, store it chilled, and then bring it up to temperature when an order comes in.
Four hundred guests, three different multi-course meals, all served at the same time. Thanks to Finishing. Prepare your food in advance and with less stress using the cook-and-chill process, and be ready in time for any event. Plate the food cold and store it chilled. And then go about your regular working day. Shortly before the food needs to be served, use Finishing in the iCombi Pro to bring each plate up to the perfect temperature. What if you’re serving a thousand meals, or five thousand? Doesn't matter - you’ll always get the same great quality results, exactly to the standards you’ve defined. Because the iCombi Pro automatically regulates everything, only notifying you when it’s time to load or unload your food.
Excellent bar food, round-the-clock room service, snacks in between. Sweet, savory. Innovative homemade creations, reliable convenience foods, legendary classics - serve your guests food they’ll love, any time of the day or night. Because the iCombi Pro is so easy to use, you can get good results even if you're not necessarily a chef. And MyDisplay gives you the reassurance that every dish will be prepared correctly. Make homemade pizza, baked goods, or whatever else you’re looking to do - all at the press of a button.
MyDisplay
MyDisplay eliminates user error and keeps results uniform. Choose the dishes you want shown on the display as images or icons. Simply tap them, and the iCombi Pro will get started. You can add or delete products just as easily.
Very “in”: Additional income streams
Whatever your guests can't get from the hotel, they’ll buy somewhere else. Think supermarkets, late-night snacks, and food delivery services. What if you produced your own pizza, burgers, and French fries? Putting your iCombi Pro to additional use. While creating a source of additional revenue. At the bar. Through room service. With hardly any extra work.
Let us help you get an idea of the savings you could enjoy by installing one or more iCombi Pro and iVario Pro units. For one, you’ll save a whole lot of space thanks to all that equipment you won’t need anymore - you’ll accomplish more in a kitchen that could be 60% smaller. For another, you’ll save on investment costs: the two cooking systems can cover up to 90% of all commonly used cooking applications, which makes some equipment unnecessary. And then there’s the environmental savings. The cooking systems use less energy, which means more sustainable production. And you’ll also reduce your overproduction, use less oil, cut your working time, and save space. Which adds up to major pluses for the environment as well as your bottom line.
The iCombi Pro and the iVario Pro replace countless conventional kitchen appliances, such as tilting skillets, kettles, and deep-fryers, so you can plan around a smaller kitchen and create more room for guests.
Quick preheating on the iVario Pro, no need for monitoring on the iCombi Pro - together, they save an enormous amount of time when preparing 80 meals.
Which challenges do you want to address with the help of an iCombi Pro? Choose from a variety of unit sizes and installation options to create a tailor-made solution. With an UltraVent attached directly to the unit, for example, you won’t need a connection to the outside or additional ventilation around the cooking system. It doesn’t get any easier.
On the table, atop a work surface, attached to the wall, on the central oven block or even integrated into it: the iVario Pro fits wherever you need it. Thanks to its integrated water drain, you don’t even need a floor drain channel, which prevents slippery floors for better work safety and provides greater flexibility in kitchen layout.
In hotels, technology is the rule, not the exception. Booking systems, billing, personnel planning - everything’s digital, everything’s coordinated. Just like ConnectedCooking by RATIONAL. Recipe transmission, unit inspections, HACCP data, software updates, service remote access - our secure networking solution lets you do everything from your desk. For all networked RATIONAL units. Anywhere in the world. You can also access and save HACCP data from all cooking systems. Created a new menu? Send it around the world with just a click. All you need is a PC, tablet or smartphone. Standardization has never been easier.
ConnectedCooking
High-performance networking by RATIONAL. You'll always have everything under control.
Customer care and support is important at RATIONAL. From initial consultations and trial cooking to test units, installation, and worldwide training - not to mention automatic software updates and the ChefLine hotline for individual questions - we cover all the bases. You can also turn to Academy RATIONAL for additional training on specific topics, such as Finishing. And if an emergency ever arises, RATIONAL’s worldwide service network will be there in no time.
Designed to help you make the most of your cooking systems
and gain enjoyment for years to come... and ensure that you’re never short of ideas.
Whether you’re looking for comprehensive consultation, help with concept development, or maintenance agreements - for one hotel or several hundred - RATIONAL is your experienced hotel-industry partner. For fullservice and limited-service hotels alike. You can use our entire service cycle or just one of the items listed. And, crucially, you can jump in at any point on the cycle. Interested? RATIONAL’s hotel experts would love to hear from you.
Enough theory - time for practice! Nothing’s more convincing than seeing it for yourself. Experience RATIONAL cooking systems up close, see their intelligent features in action, and learn how they can work for you. Register for a in-person, no obligation, cooking event near you online. Call us or send us an email if you have any questions, or if you’d like to discuss RATIONAL cooking systems and how they can meet your individual needs.
