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Restaurant Daily News 1 0 9 Tuesday, May 23, 2017 Udi's Gluten Free is the No. 1 dedi- cated gluten-free brand in North America. Udi's is on a mission to create the best tasting food on the planet that just so happens to be gluten free. One in five Americans include gluten-free foods in their diet (Gallup. Accessed 3/23/17. www.gallup.com/ p o l l / 1 8 4 3 0 7 / o n e - f i v e - a m e r i c a n s - include-gluten-free-foods-diet.aspx). People choose to eat gluten free for var- ious reasons, including Celiac disease, gluten intolerance, wheat allergies or overall health. With a full line of food- service products, including bread, bagels, hoagie rolls, granola, muffins, cookies, dinner rolls, tortillas, buns and pizza crusts, Udi's products make sure all gluten-free foodservice customers and their guests have food choices they love. For people seeking a healthier plant- forward lifestyle, Gardein offers plant- based cuisine in an abundance of flavors and varieties, created to excite the palate. Gardein has a wide selection of delicious plant-based meals and snacks for any time of day. Pinnacle Foods (Cont'd. from p. 1) Global food demand will grow 50 percent by 2030 (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Website. Accessed 3/23/17. www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/food_se curity.shtml.) and there will be signifi- cant a need for more protein. Gardein is part of the solution. As Gardein continues to grow, so does its commitment to mak- ing the world a healthier, more sustain- able place. Try all the products Gardein has to offer: chick'n strips, cubes, breasts, pieces and breaded tenders; beefless burgers, black bean burgers and veggie patties; beefless strips, tips, meatballs, gluten-free crumbles and its FABI award-winning Italian Pizza Crumbles – awarded for its taste, marketability, creativity and profit potential. Try them today! Offering Udi's and Gardein award- winning products can help you create a strong point of differentiation and a cus- tomer base that is loyal, passionate and vocal. For more information, stop by booth #1842-1845 or go to www.udisgluten free.com and www.gardein.com. That makes continuous temperature monitoring all the more critical, as one pair of franchisees discovered last Christmas Eve. That evening, the food vendor made an ordinary key drop after the store was closed and staff had gone home. "They piled it inside the walk-in cooler like they always do," says Phil Surico, who, along with business partner Adam Willets, owns several Five Guys stores in New Jersey. What happened next would cause anyone to lose their cool. Surico's first indication of the problem was an email alert indicating that the cooler tempera- ture had risen out of range. Back in 2016, Five Guys began installing the ComplianceMate tempera- ture-tracking solution at all of its new stores. ComplianceMate uses wireless sensors to continuously monitor tempera- tures and automatically generate alerts when temperatures rise above or fall below customer-set thresholds. At first Surico wasn't worried – sometimes the alert just means the 35 degrees Fahrenheit cooler has temporari- ly entered defrost mode. "But then I got the first phone call from their monitoring service." He looked up the in-store video cameras, and what he saw gave him chills: the stacked boxes of product – produce, tomatoes, meat, bacon – had fallen over and out the cooler's door. ComplianceMate (Cont'd. from p. 1) Without those alerts, that accident could have turned into a very unpleasant sur- prise on Christmas Day. "It saved us," says Surico. "If ComplianceMate's monitors hadn't caught it, an entire truck's worth of prod- uct would have spoiled by the next morn- ing. With the alert, we were able to get it corrected right away." Thankfully, Surico and Five Guys alike are conscientious about safety, and by catching the issue immediately, Surico was able to rush to the store and check the temperature of all of the fresh ingre- dients before they had a chance to exceed Five Guys' safety threshold of 41 degrees Fahrenheit. "ComplianceMate was happy to pre- vent the Grinch from stealing Christmas," says Thom Schmitt of ComplianceMate. "The owner got the alert, went to the store, realized what happened and was able to save the products." Though it would have been possible for Surico and his staff to scramble the next day to get product from other stores, it would have been a difficult process to get everything to the store in time for opening. How much product did they end up losing? "Nothing," says Surico. "We had zero inventory loss." For more information, go to Lakeside Center booth #9442 or visit www .compliancemate.com. large 14 inch by 14 inch removable stainless steel platform for easy cleanup. The wireless feature of the WPS allows you to mount the display in the most convenient position using the included wall mounting bracket. No cable or wires are needed to connect the display to the platform. The touch-free tare on the display keeps food preparation swift and sanitary, allowing taring after each ingredient with only a wave of the hand. The WPS scale provides restaurants with a tool to quickly and accurately measure ingredients while they are preparing meals. This reduces any time spent on individual measurement cups or even loss of money for ingredients that were not being measured at all. The WPS requires less time for cleaning with its touch-free display and removable stain- less steel platform. The WPS scale runs on AA batteries (not included) or AC adaptors (included). It features three wireless channels to choose from. Multiple functions are available including Weighing, Hold Yamato (Cont'd. from p. 1) Function and Unit Toggle. Units consist of pounds-ounces (fractional), pounds- ounces (decimal) and kilograms and can be read easily on the LCD display in 1- inch characters. About Yamato Corporation Yamato's commercial division is a global leader in weighing scales for restaurants, food processing, delis, catering and other retail markets. The commercial line con- sists of a large selection of digital, mechanical, bench and platform scales. Yamato offers a variety of scales, includ- ing washdown, legal-for-trade and NSF listed. Yamato's automatic division pro- vides combination weighers, check- weighers, depositors and casepackers addressing virtually any packaging appli- cation. Yamato provides the best support and industry training for your investment with the Genuine Yamato Parts & Service program. Yamato is fully committed to its customers and machines. For more information, stop by booth #1619 or visit www.yamatoamericas.com. Guards, with Microban ® technology built-in, inhibit bacterial growth that can cause stains on walls and surfaces. Both options are ideal for high-traffic rest- rooms and because they are so easy to clean, they're a sound choice for restau- rant environments, in particular. RDN: What's new at Excel? Do you have any product announcements you'd like to make? WG: Excel Dryer continues to enhance the user experience and provide smarter products that are easier to maintain. To that end, we've recently announced an expanded and enhanced product line. Enhanced standard features include adjustable speed and sound controls, adjustable heat settings (high, medium, low and off), an externally visible Service LED and multi-voltage options. If you've seen any of our recent advertisements, you'll see our claim that we offer 'the most options and complete Excel Dryer (Cont'd. from p. 4) line of accessories in the industry.' That's not just lip service; our products truly are the most customizable on the market, meeting customer needs, requirements and aesthetic preferences. RDN: How do your products benefit restaurants? WG: A restaurant's restrooms are the ulti- mate reflection of the restaurant itself. To a customer, paper towels littered on the floor or clogging the toilets signal an unclean establishment. Our high-efficiency hand dryers eradicate these problems, providing an environmentally friendly alternative while cutting maintenance costs by a typical 95 percent over paper towels. What's more, XLERATOR dries hands three times faster than conventional hand dryers, meaning less time in the restroom and more at the table. For more information, visit www.exceldryer.com, call 800.255.9235, email sales@exceldryer.com or stop by booth #5233. customers wait in line to scan their phone at the register to complete their transac- tion. The incentive for mobile ordering and payment is to skip the line. Successful order pick-up programs need to eliminate customer-employee interac- tion to eliminate this expensive business bottleneck. Rolling out a consistent option flexi- ble enough to conform to locations across a brand's store footprint can seem chal- lenging and this doesn't even consider training. Self-Serve Lockers Automate Order Pick-Up Order pick-up is the last inch of the cus- tomer experience. A poor "last-inch handoff" is typically what customers remember most about their experience. The promise of mobile ordering won't be fully realized for customers, employees or the brand if order pick-up isn't as seamless as the mobile ordering process. Luckily, there is proven technology that can help. Automated, Apex Anywhere™ self-serve lockers can elim- inate the lines and congestion many order-pick up systems experience. These lockers are already helping retailers Order Pick-Up (Cont'd. from p. 4) across the globe provide click and collect convenience to their customers. Consider how an attractive, two- sided locker system can ensure cus- tomers get their food or beverage order without waiting in line. Eliminating employee-customer interaction increases the speed and convenience of mobile order pickup in any location. Employees load orders into the stand-alone or built-in lockers from behind. This decreases the amount of times they must touch an order, which decreases the cost to prepare it, and employee workflow can be designed to easily handle mobile and in-store orders. Customers receive a message when their orders are ready. They then just scan their phones or enter a code at the locker, pick up their orders and go. Employees can assist other customers and store throughput can increase dramatically without creating bottlenecks. Discover how Apex automated, self- serve locker solutions can help restau- rants and foodservice brands improve their bottom line. For more information, visit booth #3891 or go to www.apexsupplychain.com/ foodservice.