A regional New York City area hamburger restaurant company is automating the preparation of a range of menu items.
The Filling Station, which currently operates three metro New York-area stores in New York and New Jersey and plans to open three more in the near future, is utilising the Aniai Alpha Grill automated grilling system.
Originally built for burger cooking, the solution now serves as a grill-station platform designed to cook food items such as burgers, chicken, steak, pork, salmon, eggs and pancakes in less than two minutes with consistent results.
Using precise temperature control, automated pressure and built-in sensors that continuously adjust cooking in real time, the system is built to produce 200-plus food items per hour across proteins, cooking up to eight items simultaneously. Alpha Grill also includes a robotic built-in spatula for automatic offloading, auto-cleaning between batches and a touchscreen interface for pre-programmed recipes and can operate in multiple modes.
“Operators in the US continue to face significant operational challenges in their kitchens and this is where we see the strongest demand for automation,” said Gunpil Hwang, CEO of Aniai. “We are building technology that works in real kitchens, during real rush hours and scales across multi-unit operations. That is where we are investing most of our time, talent and resources.”
