Probably our top seller in coffee shops and cafes is the Merrychef High Speed Oven and for a good reason: they are the best commercial high-speed oven on the market. In fact, a bit like Rational and Combi ovens, when people contact us they do not ask about “high-speed ovens” they ask about Merrychefs. This is likely because, beginning with their first high-speed oven designed in 1950 they have been market leaders ever since. Today the ovens are made in Steel City (Sheffield UK) and exported to 105 countries around the world. They are built to last with the highest quality components.
Why Merrychef?
The reasons we love them for coffee shops and cafes are numerous, so let’s go through them. Firstly and probably most importantly, is the speed of the machine. A Merrychef oven can cook up to 80 times faster than a traditional cooking appliance. Put another way, in the time that it takes a Barista to make a coffee, they can also load a ham and cheese panini into the oven: by the time the coffee is ready, so is the perfectly cooked panini, with bubbling cheese. Secondly, during busy periods the machine can cook items one after the other without delay, meaning no customer has to opt out of a hot food item because the wait is too long.
How Does Merrychef Help Increase My Margins?
You can make a great profit margin on a hot food item and this high-speed commercial oven increases the potential for every customer that comes in for a quick coffee to also take a hot food item. In fact, talking of margin, the third reason these are great additions to your operation is that the cost of running a Merrychef oven is minimal. They are really energy efficient. For example, back to the panini or toastie. Let’s have something with protein that is going to take 60 seconds to cook. The cost of this is going to be about 4.5 pence. If you run your oven 6 days a week for 8 hours and do 50 x 60-second cook cycles a day it will cost you £710 a year to run. This is all extra profit margin kept in your pocket!
Ventless Cooking
Further, on the keeping money in your pocket theme, a Merrychef oven does not need to go under an extraction canopy! This high-speed oven has a catalytic converter inside it which absorbs grease and helps keep the oven clean and working efficiently. The oven can sit on the back counter, front of house or next to the coffee machine so the Barista has an ergonomic working triangle where they can do all the tasks they need to do without walking far. If prepping can be done before service and the Barista can create perfectly presented dishes at the push of an icon button this gets rid of the cost of a member of staff in the kitchen. The money saved on an extraction system may not be that dissimilar to the cost of this high-speed commercial oven so we are saving, again.
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We are real champions of Merrychef ovens for all the reasons stated above. Life is hard enough being an operator in the hospitality sector so let yourself have a workhorse that is reliable, durable, efficient and will give you amazing cooking results every time.
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