Reducing frozen pizza waste is one of the top priorities for every brand producing large quantities of America’s favorite food. Reducing waste in pizza production helps cut costs, maintains product consistency, and allows brands to meet quality control standards. If your company needs to make a minimum of 20 pizzas per minute, building an automated pizza manufacturing system with Quantum’s cutting-edge machinery can help you save time and money. But also build a better product that customers will buy again and again.
In this article, we will discuss how to reduce waste in frozen pizza manufacturing. The benefits of automation, and how Quantum’s line of pizza equipment can help your brand maximize productivity and profit.
Quantum’s Equipment
Before diving into all the benefits of automating your manufacturing to reduce frozen pizza waste, let’s first get to know the different kinds of machinery Quantum offers. All of Quantum machinery are designed and produced in-house to cut costs and production times for our customers.
Cheese and Topping Applicators
Quantum offers eight different models of cheese and topping applicators, all of which feature easy belt replacement, stainless steel construction, and a design that makes them easy to clean and maintain. These machines spread various kinds of shredded cheese and sliced vegetables evenly and consistently. They can be used in conjunction with your current equipment or alone. The waterfall distribution styles send out the most pizzas per minute, while the target applicators offer the most precise topping application for brands really looking to minimize food waste.
Sauce Applicators
Our target sauce applicators place the exact right amount of sauce on each pie while leaving a clean ring of crust around the perimeter. Some of Quantum’s machines, such as the QTSA series, have the capability to apply sauce to more than just pizza. This machines can apply sauce also to paninis, sandwiches, and French bread products. Brands can set the machine to distribute a very particular amount of sauce, so there is never any wasted product. Many of the sauce applicators can handle up to four or more lanes of product at a time for maximum pizza production.
Meat and Pepperoni Slicers
Slicing meat in a consistent, uniform fashion is incredibly difficult for manual laborers. It can lead to poor quality control and unnecessary waste in pizza production. Quantum’s meat slicers use state-of-the-art servo motor drive technology to position each product, be it pepperoni, Canadian bacon, or sausage, under the target depositor. The machines can even be set to slice deli-style cheese and meats as well.
Pizza Cutters
Slicing a pizza unevenly can be cause to scrap the entire pie, and cutting slices by hand is certainly not the most efficient frozen pizza production method. Quantum’s automated pizza cutter creates even slices on every pie it meets. This machine can be calibrated to create slices of different shapes and sizes, depending on your brand’s specific style.
How Quantum’s Automated Pizza Equipment Reduces Waste
Creates Consistency
Customer loyalty is solidified when customers can depend on their favorite products being the same time and time again. Inconsistency in a product not only drives customers to other brands but can also create costly food waste. Unlike manual topping dispensing systems, automated pizza production dispenses the exact same amount of cheese, toppings, and meat on every pie. Brands can create custom, standardized recipes that lead to repeat purchases.
Provides Versatility
Many of Quantum’s machines are fully customizable, from the chosen toppings to the amount of toppings they spread. Having the ability to dispense more than one type of topping per machine saves on equipment costs and manual labor fees and provides some flexibility in your pizza production setup. Many of the machines can be retrofitted to work with existing production lines. Alternatively, because just one of Quantum’s machines can disperse a variety of toppings, you can replace several older models with just one of Quantum’s. The monetary savings on equipment can help your business grow faster and negate the need for more costly machinery. Machines can be calibrated at any time. So companies can adjust their speeds to keep up with peaks and valleys in customer demand. In this way your brand is never producing more pizza than it needs, further reducing waste in pizza production.
Quality Control
Frozen pizza waste is often due to poor quality control. When all of the ingredients are measured and dispersed in the same amounts on every pizza, brands can ensure their products are top-notch and avoid having to throw out or recall their products. Quantum’s pizza equipment helps maintain quality control. By making sure that pizzas are assembled and arranged consistently so that each pie arrives at the store packaged well and ready for the consumer.
Replaces Manual Labor
Manual labor is a big expense in the world of pizza production. While laborers require a hiring process, extensive training, and management, using automated machines like Quantum’s requires a single purchase. Quantum provides training to all operators of our equipment and preventative maintenance from our in-house shop. By keeping your equipment in top shape, we can help your brand produce as many as 600 pizzas a minute. All this while minimizing frozen pizza waste thanks to the machines’ precise distribution of ingredients.
Efficient Frozen Pizza Production with Quantum Technical Services
Here at Quantum, we design and manufacture all the equipment you need to reduce waste and increase efficiency in frozen pizza production. Incorporating our automated machines into your production line takes the guesswork out of ingredient distribution and ensures quality control by creating reliable consistency. Our machinery drastically decreases food waste. Which in turn saves time and money on supplies. This savings then can be passed to your loyal customers and help you stand out in a competitive industry.
Our customer service representatives are very knowledgeable. But also always ready to help you create the automated production line you need to maximize your products and profits. Give us a call today to learn more about how Quantum’s products can help your company reduce waste and produce the best pizza possible.