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Finishing® – a new dimension to food preparation

Normally, meals are kept warm, for example, in warming cabinets or displays. This results in quality losses.

Finishing® in the RATIONAL SelfCooking Center® finally does away with warming meals. Whether it’s 1, 5, 20 or several 1,000 meals, with Finishing® meals are brought to perfection without stress or rush.

They start with the mise en place of all the requisite dishes whenever you have the time: in the morning, the afternoon or a day beforehand. No more expensive temporary help or overtime. As soon as the food has been produced in the SelfCooking Center®, it is chilled, thus halting further unwanted cooking. Food quality remains superb.

Shortly before serving, Finishing® in the RATIONAL SelfCooking Center® according to need prepares meals to perfection.

What better recommendation than a satisfied customer?

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Finishing® for à la carte – better than freshly cooked

Finishing® in the SelfCooking Center® is the ideal solution for your à la carte business. For example, you can prepare up to 150 meals with a kitchen crew of 2, without stress or rush, with just a touch of the button.

Meals on your menu that you have calmly prepared are chilled and ready. When the order arrives, the meals are arranged on the plate with love. These meals are perfected with Finishing® in the SelfCooking Center®. Of course, you can also prepare, for example, pan-fried dishes à la minute and then add side dishes readied with Finishing®. Before serving, the sauce is poured on and the plate garnished. Meals cooked to perfection with Finishing® are served on hot plates.

From preparing to serving the ready-to-serve plate, you only need 8 minutes per load. – Your guests will be enthusiastic about the quality.

With the RATIONAL LevelControl®, your SelfCooking Center® will keep control even during rush hour service. Each rack level is individually monitored. LevelControl® automatically alerts you as soon as the relevant dish is ready – there’s nothing like it anywhere in the world.

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Finishing® makes banqueting a pleasure – even for the organizer!

The feast is over but what is talked about even years later? The quality of the food. No matter whether it’s the plated service or buffet, Finishing® in the SelfCooking Center® guarantees the highest perfection at all events.

For plated service, prepare the plates cold according to the expected number of guests and store them chilled in special mobile oven racks. Shortly before you need the meals, Finishing® will make 20 or even several 1,000 plates ready for serving at the same time without stress or additional labour. This leaves you with the required flexibility to react calmly to typical delays at events.

Buffets are child’s play, too. Preprepared meals arranged cold in containers are perfected with Finishing® in the SelfCooking Center®. Depending on demand, additional containers are made available for serving in no time – meals served are always hot and at peak quality. Long warming periods are completely done away with.

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The unique RATIONAL dew point regulation

A protective film of minute water droplets coats the meals like a second skin – without annoying condensation pools. Every second SelfCooking Control® determines what must be done and decides on the optimal course for Finishing®.

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No matter whether its catering, personnel provisioning, a school, hospital or retirement home, Finishing® is always the perfect solution for meal diversity in large quantities and top quality. Warming meals, which was required in the past and resulted in marked losses of quality, is completely dropped with Finishing®.

The meals prepared in the SelfCooking Center® are arranged cold in containers and stored chilled. You complete the meals according to demand for serving exactly when you need the meals. Meals are quickly made available with Finishing® – ensuring only hot meals are served.

Each Finishing® process is unique. Finishing® automatically adjusts to the needs of the respective meals and the quality always remains superb.

With Finishing® you prepare exactly as many meals as you need to serve. Overproduction costs are completely dropped.

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Finishing® in large scale operations – convincing freshness

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100% safe hygiene at all times

With the SelfCooking Center® you will always be able to prove the hygiene of your meals. HACCP data is automatically stored for up to 10 days and available with the touch of a button.

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The RATIONAL Finishing® system – professional events of all sizes

On special mobile oven racks up to 120 plates with a diameter of up to 31 cm can be made ready for Finishing®. The free accessibility and low height of less than 1.60 m of the mobile oven racks allow for quick and ergonomic loading and unloading from all 4 sides.

A simple transport of meals is made possible by the particularly large and steadily running tandem casters. The mobile oven rack can even master major unevenness.

With the RATIONAL Thermocover meals can be hot-parked for 20 minutes after Finishing® – enough time for Finishing® additional mobile oven racks and transport to the serving station. The RATIONAL Thermocover is distinguished by top insulating qualities. Velcro zippers of generous size allow for easy but fast work.

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Plate rack/trolley capacity Banquet size Plate rack/trolley Thermocover Transport trolley Maximum Maximum (persons) for plate rack plate height meal height (mm) (mm)

15 / 20 plates* with 15 / 20 1 1 1 32 / 25 72 / 53 SelfCooking Center® 61 30 / 40 2 2 2 32 / 25 72 / 53 45 / 60 3 3 3 32 / 25 72 / 53

24 / 34 plates* with 24 / 34 1 1 1 40 / 32 82 / 63 SelfCooking Center® 62 48 / 68 2 2 2 40 / 32 82 / 63 72 / 102 3 3 3 40 / 32 82 / 63

26 / 32 plates* with 52 / 64 2 2 2 32 / 25 70 / 53 SelfCooking Center® 101 78 / 96 3 3 3 32 / 25 70 / 53 104 / 128 4 4 4 32 / 25 70 / 53

42 / 52 plates* with 82 / 105 2 2 2 40 / 32 82 / 65 SelfCooking Center® 102 126 / 156 3 3 3 40 / 32 82 / 65 168 / 208 4 4 4 40 / 32 82 / 65

50 / 60 plates* with 100 / 120 2 2 _ 32 / 25 70 / 55 SelfCooking Center® 201 150 / 180 3 3 _ 32 / 25 70 / 55 200 / 240 4 4 _ 32 / 25 70 / 55

84 / 100 / 120 plates* with 168 / 200 / 240 2 2 _ 40 / 32 / 25 82 / 68 / 55 SelfCooking Center® 202 252 / 300 / 360 3 3 _ 40 / 32 / 25 82 / 68 / 55 336 / 400 / 480 4 4 _ 40 / 32 / 25 82 / 68 / 55

* Plate size up to 31 cm diameter

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Transport trolley with plate rack for table-top units

Plate rack trolley for floor units

A banquet for 360 with only one RATIONAL SelfCooking Center®.

Here’s how it’s done: 3 plate racks are standing by, each with 120 plates ready prepared. After Finishing® each individual plate rack is kept hot under a Thermocover. And you still have ample time to take the food to the serving point.

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RATIONAL SelfCooking Center® –an investment guaranteed to pay its way

Whether you use it for à la carte or banqueting, you will recoup the cost of your RATIONAL SelfCooking Center® in only 4 months. It pays for itself with more slices from meat, fish and poultry and in substantially reduced fat and energy consumption.

The time saved by Finishing® cannot be overemphasised. Banquets for 300 can be effortlessly prepared with only 2 chefs. Even 150 à la carte meals pose no problem with only 2 chefs.

Payback in under 4 months with Finishing® alone

"Expensive banqueting overtime can be cut to virtually zero. We now have time for creative work.” Nicolas M. Bour, Executive Sous-Chef, Hotel Inter-Continental, Miami

Typical restaurant: 150 meals a day à la carte and 2 banquets a month for 100 guests each, with two SelfCooking Center® 101

Your extra earnings minus £ 300 depreciation per month over 5 years

Amount budgeted Your extra earnings

Conventional staff costs:3 kitchen staff £ 4,450/monthStaff costs with SelfCooking Center®:2 kitchen staff £ 2,970/month.

Conventional staff costs:4 kitchen staff per banquet á 8h x £ 10* = 640 £/monthStaff costs with SelfCooking Center®:2 kitchen staff per banquet á 8h x £ 10* = 320 £/month.

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Per month = £ 1,500 Per year = £ 18,000

After 10 years = £ 180,000*Compound calculation for chef/temporary staff (employer’s costs)

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The test is in the taste

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Apart from Finishing®, the SelfCooking Center® offers a varied additional application range. Roasting, grilling, steaming, braising, blanching, poaching and much more. All in a single unit.

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