Congrats! You’re starting up a small-scale frozen pizza automation line. This is an exciting business venture as your label introduces its product line to consumers. Acquiring the pizza automation line equipment that fits your brand’s needs sets your company up for success. That’s why, in the early stage of deciding which equipment your brand is choosing, your brand must choose right.
In addition to describing how to find pizza equipment for sale, we’ll also provide a quick guide on how to start a frozen food business. When you’re a new brand, listening to the experts is everything. At Quantum, we’re here to help our new clients be successful and make the best pizza products possible!
How to Start a Frozen Food Business
So, how do you start a frozen food business? While a lot goes into starting a business in general, we’ll list some helpful tips on how to start a frozen food business. Here, we’ll explore what goes into setting up a small-scale pizza automation line.
1. Do Market Research
The first thing new frozen pizza companies should do is conduct market research. Market research can help your label determine popular recipes that will succeed. This research can also reveal recipe niches that consumers may be interested in. Your label should also conduct market research to see what works for your competition, allowing your brand to build on that success.
2. Gather Financing and a Strong Staff
Financing is critical to any start-up. Immediate expenditures include equipment, staff wages, and other overhead costs. Having a business plan backed by market research can show your investors that your team is dedicated to achieving success.
3. Find the Right Pizza Equipment
When starting a new frozen pizza business, durable equipment is key. On one hand, your new company will want affordable solutions that meet your production requirements. On the other hand, your company may want scalable equipment that can grow with your brand. Luckily, your brand doesn’t have to choose between reliability and adaptability with Quantum equipment.
4. Talk to the Experts
Lastly, having an industry liaison is a great way to obtain helpful hints as you start your new pizza label. When you choose Quantum equipment, our experts are ready to answer any questions and help your team solve challenges. Starting up a new business is difficult enough on your own – we’re here to help you achieve success!
While this list isn’t extensive, it’s a great starting point. As your brand sets up its small-scale frozen pizza automation line, it doesn’t have to do so without the proper resources. Following this quick list can start your new label off on the right foot.
Finding the right pizza equipment is arguably just as important as the recipes themselves. They can affect the quality and consistency of your products, as well as the productivity and efficiency of your team. This is why it’s critical to begin with equipment that suits your production needs. Let’s take a look at finding pizza equipment for sale for newer brands.
Finding Pizza Equipment for Sale as a New Brand
There are a couple of important aspects to consider when looking at pizza equipment for sale as a new brand. They include automation, scalability, versatility, and manufacturer engagement. Let’s explore how these features for pizza equipment can help your new pizza brand.
Automation
Even though your brand may not need high-volume pizza production just yet, automation can still help your brand achieve both short and long-term goals. Quantum automation ensures quality and consistency in your products, which is an absolute necessity when you’re trying to build your customer base. Quantum automated pizza equipment also requires minimal staffing for maintenance and ingredient restocking, which can consolidate the effort your brand actually requires. This can streamline the cost of labor for your new brand, facilitating better profits.
Scalability
Scalability is another key characteristic to look for when searching “pizza equipment for sale.” In a pizza automation line, scalability allows brands to increase production without a lot of effort. Quantum automated pizza equipment is scalable, meaning our machinery can easily increase production rates while maintaining a high standard of quality and consistency. Scalability is an important feature for new brands because they won’t have to purchase new equipment when they want to increase production.
Versatility
Versatility can be a distinguishing factor when searching for pizza equipment. Brands of all sizes save money and effort when pizza automation line equipment can apply more than one type of ingredient. Versatility not only grants pizza labels the ability to diversify their product lines, but it also allows them to conduct low-risk R&D. Unique products are important in helping brands stand out from the competition, which is why new brands must consider versatility.
Manufacturer Engagement
Last but certainly not least is manufacturer engagement. While it’s not a feature of pizza equipment, the manufacturer of the equipment can affect your brand’s success. A manufacturer that cares about its clients continues to offer expert guidance and answer questions well beyond the sale of the equipment. As a new brand, it’s key to have access to this knowledge that can help establish the label in the industry. At Quantum, we work to ensure our clients’ continued success with our client-centered customer service.
Automation, scalability, versatility, and manufacturer engagement are important features of pizza equipment, especially for newer brands setting up a pizza automation line. Now, we’ll walk you through the equipment solutions we have at Quantum, including sauce spreaders, cheese applicators, and meat slicers.
Key Equipment: Sauce Applicators, Cheese Applicators, and Meat Slicer
The beauty of pizza is that you technically just need a sauce applicator, cheese applicator, and a meat slicer to make the typical pizza. While we offer more types of topping dispensers such as our dry/granular ingredient applicator, we’ll focus on the above first.
Sauce Applicators
Our Quantum sauce spreaders/sauce applicators have a variety of features. We offer Waterfall Sauce Applicators that deposit sauce on pizzas evenly as they pass through on the conveyor. We also have Targeted Sauce Applicators that can apply a specific amount of sauce per pizza. Both can conserve ingredients as the waterfall applicators have a reclaim system and the targeted applicator dispenses the right amount of sauce. Either type of sauce spreader would work for a new pizza automation line!
Cheese/Topping Applicators
Our cheese applicators can dispense the shredded cheese needed to make a great pizza. These applicators can also dispense vegetables, dry ingredients, and IQF ingredients for added versatility. The no-waste design of our waterfall applicators conserves ingredients while maintaining quality and consistency. At Quantum, we offer cheese/topping applicators for a range of production demands.
Meat/Pepperoni Slicers
Pepperoni slices are an iconic pizza topping – one that new brands should include in their product portfolio! We at Quantum make meat slicing and application simple with our automated meat and pepperoni slicers that can cut and dispense stick meats to pizza. Some of our models can also be reconfigured to cut meats and cheeses deli-style for more unique recipes. With a safe and simple design, our meat/pepperoni slicers are perfect additions to new pizza automation lines.
Get Started with Quantum
At Quantum Technical Services, your new brand can find the necessary equipment it needs to set up a pizza automation line. From sauce dispensers to cheese and dry/granular ingredient applicators to conveyor systems, Quantum is the leader in the industry. We make state-of-the-art automated equipment that can meet the evolving changes of the frozen pizza industry. Contact our team at Quantum today to learn more about our equipment that can meet your brand’s needs as you start out!