When the newspaper becomes a menu card

Hidenori Aso shares his views on how technology can help restaurants stay a notch up on competition

I recently opened the newspaper during the weekend and was overwhelmed with the number of restaurant ads. It was as though the newspaper had become a menu card consisting of a wide range of restaurants from traditional to contemporary; from Oriental to Western; from takeaways to fine dining… you name it!

With so much on offer, how do restaurants really stay a notch up on competition? A tough ask, really! The answer lies in technology. Today friendly service is taken for granted, so is tasty food. Speed, precision, fine detailing and consistency are the qualities that help retain customer loyalty. This is where appliances sporting the latest technology come into play. Most appliance manufacturers like Panasonic have custom products to meet this challenge of restaurateurs.

Take for instance Panasonic’s large sized automatic cookers which would best fit in the kitchens of authentic restaurants and probably large families as they are proven to cook up to 4.5 kg rice in a short span of time and are believed to consume less electricity which makes it a fancy choice for all leading restaurants that boast about their eco-friendly features.

It would best suit busy kitchen atmospheres as it requires almost no supervision hence no mess! Since it has a unique quality called the precision control mechanism which switches to ‘Keep Warm’ mode automatically, one could see that the chefs can finally have their well deserved break.

It’s fascinating to know technologies stuffed in this box made up of a superior material and process-control ensures that this alien box is safe and shock proof, important in this country where voltages fluctuations are frequent. An advantage of using such technology is that the consistency required for the reputation of one’s cooking is easily achieved.

Taking care

Many complicated delicacies require constant monitoring and addition of ingredients and with these compact multipurpose cookers the chef can easily open the lid anytime and make the changes required with no worries about the hot lids or utensils and could also put these compact multipurpose cookers directly on buffet counters or small food joints. They are available in two colours which go with nearly any kind of a kitchen set up.

Well, the kitchen just can’t operate with one cooker; hence Panasonic has come up with a unique range of product like a meat grinder, 1000w/150w proving its high grinding performance with various kinds of blades giving the chef options to choose his meat for his dish, which comes with rotary switch with reverse functions hence making kitchen a place of precision and perfection.

Panasonic has introduced another variety of electric kettle with dual water window and removable lime scale filter and many other modifications compared to a traditional kettle to give cooking a whole new dimension.

(The writer is managing director of Panasonic Appliances India)