The Internet of Things (IoT) makes a foray into commercial kitchens. HotSchedules, a well-known provider of Cloud-based mobile technology for the restaurant and hospitality industries, has partnered with Kitchen Brains to bring its SCK Quality Production Manager (QPM) together with the HotSchedules IoT Platform.
A press release issued by the company said Kitchen Brains‘ QPM application integrated cooking platforms such as fryers and ovens with real-time point-of-sale (POS) data. The integration planned, directeds, and reported cooking instructions to ensure that food was always hot, fresh and available for guests. The IoT Platform would eliminate the complexity and costs of connecting QPM to other restaurant technologies especially POS systems.
QPM is part the Kitchen Brains Genius Suite, a collection of technologies that seamlessly connect front and back-of-house restaurant systems with all aspects of food production and facility management, creating a truly intelligent commercial kitchen. QPM monitors real time and historical sales to dynamically coach the kitchen crew on what to cook, when to cook it, how much to cook and when to discard expired product.
By connecting Kitchen Brains QPM with the HotSchedules IoT platform POS solutions and cooking equipment will work seamlessly eliminating traditional API complexities while allowing restaurants to maximize their existing IT investments. Restaurants will be able increase speed-of-service, improve food quality and reduce wastage while cutting IT costs, claimed the company.
The HotSchedules IoT platform will collect QPM’s data on food quality, wastage, inventory consumption, speed of service and savings. From the Cloud, this data can be delivered to any analytics solution including HotSchedules Reveal, an app that provides actionable insights for hospitality businesses on a smartphone, Tablet or browser. The data can also be linked to HotSchedules Inventory, a mobile application that enables restaurants to efficiently track and manage inventory and queue orders for products that are below ideal quantities.
Kitchen Brains has been in the business for 45 years, and is more commonly known by the iconic FAST brand name.