Food waste is a significant problem when it comes to food manufacturing, with one solution being pizza sauce applicators. Having the right pizza topping equipment can make a huge difference when it comes to preserving the quality of your product and reducing ingredient waste.
With food manufacturing technology ever-evolving, there are more options now than ever before to help you automate this process.
In this article, we will discuss why you need automatic pizza sauce applicators and what to look for when upgrading your equipment. We will also discuss how you can reduce pizza topping waste with automated solutions, such as those provided by Quantum.
Why It’s Important to Reduce Pizza Topping Waste
No matter the size of your frozen pizza manufacturing company, one of your goals needs to be reducing waste. For many people, this is an environmental concern since we don’t want to recklessly waste food resources. However, there are other reasons why this can be bad for your company, such as:
- Cost: When your company is producing food waste, you are literally throwing away money. After all, you have invested in these ingredients for the purpose of using them to create your products. When ingredients are unnecessarily wasted, this will slowly start to reflect in your profit-to-spending ratio.
- Efficiency: Believe it or not, ingredient waste can also have a negative impact on efficiency within your company. If there is a significant amount of pizza topping waste, it will most likely be piling up on your pizza line, slowing down efficiency and creating downtimes. This can also contribute to the need for additional maintenance and cleaning if ingredients get stuck in your machinery’s components.
- Quality: If your sauce and topping applicators are not designed to reduce food waste, this can have a negative impact on the quality of your product. For example, pizza sauce may be wasted if it is dispensed over the sides of the pizza crust, which will also create a poor-quality product. Also, dispensers may apply too many or too few ingredients, creating a lack of reproducibility, which will negatively impact the customer’s experience.
Automatic Pizza Sauce Applicators
Now that you know why it is so important to reduce pizza topping waste, what equipment will help you achieve this goal? If you are a frozen pizza manufacturer, your pizza line needs to have pizza sauce applicators.
Target sauce applicators assist with the pizza topping process by applying the pizza sauce to the crust as they move down the processing line. At Quantum, our pizza sauce depositor machines are designed to apply a variety of pizza sauces with a border-free application. We also provide many different applicator options, such as:
- QTTS Series
- QTIA Series
- QTJK Series
- WS1000 Waterfall
- QTMC Series
- QTSA Series
The purpose of these applicators is to apply pizza sauce consistently to produce a consistent and high-quality product. This also helps to reduce food waste and aids in the packaging process by ensuring the pizza sauce does not go over the pizza border.
Cheese/Toppings Applicators
Another very important part of the frozen pizza manufacturing process is applying the pizza toppings. This is a step in the process that can significantly contribute to food waste if you are not using high-quality and automated technology.
The purpose of cheese/topping applicators is to dispense pizza toppings consistently in the right spot on each pizza crust. Automating this process produces a higher quality product even as you increase production speed, which helps to significantly reduce food waste.
Here are some of the high-quality topping applicators we provide at Quantum:
- MLT2000 Series
- WA1000 Series
- WA5000 Series
- QTPA Series
- WFTS Series
- QTTW5000 Series
What to Look For in a Pizza Sauce Depositor
Although it is essential to invest in an automatic pizza sauce applicator to reduce food waste, not all pizza sauce applicators are made equally. Before you make this investment, you need to know what factors to look for to find the best option for quality and speed.
Flexible Speeds
Whether you are a small, midsize, or large frozen pizza manufacturing company, you need to look for equipment that is versatile. The same rule applies when you are investing in applicators, as your needs are bound to change over time.
Choosing an applicator with adjustable dispensing speeds is an incredibly important feature that provides flexibility. This is essential whether you are a small company that is slowly growing or you have fluctuating processing needs.
Adjustable dispensing speeds allow you to speed up or slow down production so that your process can remain efficient without producing waste.
Multi-Lane Design
An ingredient dispenser with multi-lane capabilities allows you to handle a higher volume without decreasing quality. This is because a multi-lane design allows you to top more pizza crusts without investing in additional topping equipment.
This is especially beneficial for smaller manufacturing companies that do not have the space or the budget to invest in additional or larger pieces of equipment.
Ingredient Abilities
You most likely provide a variety of pizza flavors, which means that you need an applicator with different ingredient abilities. For instance, at Quantum, our applicators can handle a variety of ingredients, such as meats, cheeses, vegetables, dry ingredients, and IFQ ingredients. Additionally, our sauce dispensers can handle a wide range of sauces, such as traditional tomato sauce, Alfredo sauce, salad dressings, and BBQ sauce.
Reclaim Capabilities
To effectively reduce food waste, you need to find sauce and topping applicators with reclaim capabilities. Reclaim features use automation to conserve ingredients so that they can be used on other pizzas instead of being thrown away.
Reduce Waste With Quantum Pizza Topping Equipment
At Quantum, we provide top-of-the-line pizza topping equipment that can help you reduce pizza topping waste. Our machines are specifically designed to meet the needs of frozen pizza manufacturers, allowing you to preserve quality while increasing speed and reproducibility. We provide a variety of pizza sauce applicators and other pizza toppings machines using the latest automatic solutions. Contact our team today to learn more about the different types of pizza sauce depositors we provide.