You already know that location and service are important to your guests. That the price-performance ratio has to be right. That you’re operating in an attractive and competitive market. And that is exactly why you need to stand out from the competition. This is something a compelling F&B concept can help you do. Even if you’re under-staffed, short on kitchen space, and don’t have much freedom to experiment.
Trends, ideas, customer preferences - RATIONAL’s concepts reflect them all. And we tailor them specifically to your most pressing concerns. Whether you want help in every area or just one.
“We needed an oven partner who had the best product and who could also help us figure out how to get in close to 2,000 properties in under a year.”
Adam Handler, director of global guest experience, Holiday Inn Express
7 AM. Breakfast room: packed. Guests: in a rush. Expectations: as international as your clientèle. Time is tight. But this is where the iCombi Pro really shines. Use it to prepare the hot components of your breakfast buffet, for example - pancakes, omelets, and bacon, all fresh and delicious.
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 recipes just as easily.
Shopping carts
The iCombi Pro helps you produce the same high quality results over and over. No stress, no additional staff. It uses preset “shopping carts”, which contain the dishes in your food concept that can be cooked at the same time. Just tap the correct shopping cart on the display ( “Breakfast,” for example), drag the dish to a level, load the iCombi Pro, and the unit will start.
Sandwiches, pizza, burgers, pastries. Mornings, lunchtime, afternoon, evenings. Whenever your customers are hungry, it’s ready to work. Using it is quick and straightforward, and after a few minutes of cleaning, you’d never know it was even used.
A quick drink at the bar and a bite to eat at the end of a stressful day? Music to your customers’ ears. Delight them with chicken wings, mozzarella sticks, burgers, pizza, and curry dishes. Fast, reliable, and prepared just the way you want them. At any time of day, using fresh or convenience products.
No matter what type of product you’re preparing, the iCombi Pro adjusts its settings to give you the results you want. For example, iProductionManager can help you determine what to prepare when, so that your customers can enjoy consistently delicious food throughout the day.
The iCombi Pro is so powerful; it can prepare frozen food in the blink of an eye. The cooking system detects the size and condition of the food, and adjusts the cooking process accordingly. The result: Uniformly great food.
Perfectly prepared steak and fresh vegetables can be challenging when you’re new in the kitchen. The iCombi Pro provides cooking paths for these and many other products, so its intelligence automatically handles everything. Now everyone can get expert-level results.
Within just 11 ft2, the iCombi Pro combines convection heat and steam into countless culinary possibilities. Whether it’s 2 meals or 200. Ready-to-serve meals, freshly cooked food, frozen and convenience products. Thanks to its climate management system and its cooking intelligence, every dish is an automatic success. Perfectly cooked. Even with maximum capacity loads. Or mixed loads. With no monitoring or checking required. 24 hours a day. That’s how the iCombi Pro guarantees excellent results. Over and over again.
When it comes down to it, the iCombi Pro only has one job: reliably delivering the same great results 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 burger or 20, and adjusts its own parameters automatically. It helps you optimize your production schedule for speed or energy consumption and can help you keep your breakfast buffet perfectly stocked.
The controls on the iCombi Pro are self-explanatory, so new personnel can master them in no time. RATIONAL chefs will train you and your employees based on your own food concept or one created for you by RATIONAL, so that you’ll get perfect results effortlessly from the very beginning.
RATIONAL Training
› Worldwide roll-outs
› Train-the-Trainer
› Chef Assist training at your locations
› Regular reviews and updates of your concepts
Stronger brand, more satisfied customers, increased market share - all thanks to HolidayInn Express’s new breakfast service in North America. RATIONAL assisted with everything from concept development to training. Now they’re using fresh ingredients to create delicious food every morning: scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, and piping-hot cinnamon rolls.
The result:
1,800 units installed in 8 months. Increased customer satisfaction with hotel breakfast and general services. Reduced product use while incorporating a larger percentage of fresh ingredients.
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.
Let us help you get an idea of the savings you could enjoy by installing one or more iCombi Pro units. You’ll save a lot of space, for one thing: You can produce the same amount of food in a kitchen up to 60%* smaller. You’ll save investment costs: for example, the UltraVent Plus for the iCombi Pro doesn’t require a connection to the outside, and eliminates the need for additional ventilation around the cooking system. And you’ll save the environment: The iCombi Pro uses less energy, which means more sustainable production. You’ll also reduce your overproduction, use less fat, and cut your labor hours. Which adds up to major pluses for the environment as well as your bottom line.
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. Don't see the one for you? Visit rational-online.com for additional options.
Let the iCombi Pro do its work everywhere:
› Lower investment costs
› Fewer working hours
› Space-saving design requires less than 11 ft2
› Menu flexibility
› Guaranteed results
› Up to 70% energy savings compared to conventional cooking technology
In the hotel business, if you don’t have a leg up on the competition today, you might not have guests tomorrow. Which makes it that much more important to regularly evaluate your concepts, gather input, and implement new ideas. That goes for your room decor as well as for your breakfast and bar food. And RATIONAL can help with all of the above. We offer knowledge. We offer experience. We offer new ideas. And we’ll always build on what we’ve already achieved together.
What does the future hold?
A wealth of new ideas and concepts to help you continue impressing your customers again and again.
Whether you’re looking for comprehensive consultation, help with concept development, or maintenance agreements - for one location or several hundred - RATIONAL is your experienced partner when it comes to support for limited service hotels. You can use our entire service cycle or just one of the items listed. And, most importantly, you can jump in at any point on the cycle. Interested? RATIONAL’s hotel experts would love to hear from you at