Pizza is widely popular throughout the whole year and frozen pizza allows busy customers to enjoy their favorite dish even more conveniently. However, there are still specific times of the year when pizza manufacturers experience an increase in demand (and subsequently sales).
This increase in demand requires pizza brands to increase their pizza production rates in order to meet this demand. Yet, brands still need to provide the same great quality and taste in their products even while they’re increasing pizza production. To successfully prepare for peak pizza seasons, brands need the right automated equipment that guarantees consistency and quality along with scaled-up production.
Here, we’ll explore just how vital finding the right automated pizza equipment is in scaling pizza production. We’ll also discuss how brands can prepare their products for frozen pizza packaging to ensure that their customers receive the products they expect. But first, we’ll take a look at what times of the year brands experience higher demand and how your label can prepare its frozen pizza production process.
Peak Pizza Times and Preparing Your Frozen Pizza Production Process
Even though pizza is popular year-round, there are certain times of the year when pizza labels experience a rise in sales. As a result, brands need to be immediately able to scale up their frozen pizza production process to meet this demand and connect with as many customers as possible. These peak pizza times include:
- Halloween
- The Super Bowl
- New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day
- The Wednesday before Thanksgiving
- Valentine’s Day
Brands can find additional value during these times of the year if they employ efficient automated equipment for increasing pizza production. Automated equipment can help your brand increase pizza production at any moment, not just during peak times, offering a year-round benefit of overcoming competitors. However, the right automated equipment will help your brand improve quality and consistency even when increasing your frozen pizza production process. Next, we’ll explore features to look for when finding frozen pizza equipment to simplify the process of scaling up.
Scaling Pizza Production With the Right Frozen Pizza Equipment: Features to Look For
Finding the right frozen pizza equipment for scaling pizza production is easier said than done (however, that’s not the case at Quantum– more on that later!) At Quantum, we recognize the importance of finding features that work best for your brand’s operations, especially when scaling pizza production. We believe that efficiency, user-friendliness, and easy maintenance are 3 key features that automated pizza equipment should have in order to prepare brands for the increased demand of peak seasons.
Efficiency
Assembly line efficiency is key for scaling up pizza production successfully. This includes maintaining (or improving) quality and consistency while helping your brand meet or exceed peak time quotas. Quantum frozen pizza equipment, including our ingredient applicators, cardboard circle placers, and conveying systems, have adjustable production rates ideal for increasing pizza production. The Quantum difference is that your brand doesn’t have to sacrifice quality and consistency to meet quotas. This way, your brand can easily connect with more customers during peak times while still offering its iconic taste.
User-Friendliness
User-friendliness is another key feature that frozen pizza equipment needs for successful scaling up. For your brand to be able to increase frozen pizza production, its staff needs to be able to successfully operate its machinery. Training staff for increased quotas is vital for ramping up production, and it’s even simpler when your brand employs user-friendly tech. We’ve designed Quantum equipment to not only be user-friendly but also to require minimal staffing for operation and restocking. As a result, this limits employee contact with the ingredients and products, reducing the likelihood of food-borne illnesses spreading.
Easy Maintenance
Increased pizza production usually brings an increased need for maintenance. As machinery ramps up production, your brand’s equipment may need more tune-ups to maintain the increased production rate. At Quantum, our automated solutions are easy to tune up in-house, and most of our designs are stainless steel and washdown-compatible, further simplifying maintenance and cleaning. When your brand is increasing its production, the last thing your team should worry about is too much downtime getting in the way of connecting with customers. At Quantum, we design our tech so your team can focus on making its products.
These features in automated pizza equipment are critical for successfully scaling up during peak pizza times. However, your brand’s oversight doesn’t stop at QC– it can also employ automated solutions to simplify frozen pizza packaging during high demand.
Putting Frozen Pizza Packaging To Work
The manufacturer’s responsibility doesn’t end with frozen pizza production– it extends to the packaging, successful shipping, and shelf life. Beyond the manufacturing process, frozen pizza labels need to ensure that their products can reach the customer, especially during peak times. Using Cardboard Circle Placers and Water Spray Conveyors helps streamline frozen pizza packaging so that increasing pizza production doesn’t affect shipping and shelf-life quality.
Cardboard Circle Placers
Quantum Cardboard Circle Placers can dispense corrugated cardboard circles, squares, and rectangles of different sizes at various speeds to the assembly line. Our adjustable placement rate helps with increasing pizza production, allowing these cardboard pieces to serve as a strong base for the pizzas during assembly. They keep products aligned with the topping applicators and prepare the products for frozen pizza packaging and shipping. This simplifies quality control, a critical aspect of scaling up.
Water Spray Conveyors
Water spray is a crucial final step in frozen pizza production. As the products pass under one of these conveyors, a light mist of water gets applied to the products to aid in even freezing and thawing. Even freezing prepares the product for frozen pizza packaging, which maintains the product’s quality for the customer.
During peak pizza times, maintaining quality and consistency is key to maintaining your loyal customer base. At Quantum, we create automated solutions that allow brands to increase pizza production while increasing quality and consistency.
Meet Seasonal Quotas With Quantum
Peak pizza seasons create high and fast demand. While this seasonal increase is predictable, topping preferences and trends aren’t. Your brand can increase its production rates, improve quality and consistency, and participate in topping trends with Quantum equipment. We’ve designed our tech to accommodate high-volume production rates while ensuring quality and consistency. Contact our team today to prepare for seasonal demand as soon as possible!