Sensible Sustainability and Local Sourcing

In poll after poll, today’s restaurant-goers are seeking a return to fresh, honest foods. And it’s not just happening among certain segments of the population – it’s become a mainstream trend. Diners want to know where their food comes from, and that it’s fresh and healthy. 
The same goes for culinary professionals. The National Restaurant Association’s 2011 survey of more than 1,500 professional chefs finds that the top trends identified by them include locally sourced meats and produce, nutritious meals for adults and kids, and “sustainability” as a culinary theme.

“Back to basics” cuisine and farm-branded ingredients are also hot topics in the foodservice industry today.

Thanks to foodservice products from Bettcher Industries like our breading machines, you can easily tap into many of these consumer trends and integrate them into your own restaurant or fast food operation.

Local Sourced and Freshly Breaded Foods

Now there's an easier way to take fresh, locally grown produce or meat and bread it for either baking or frying. Nothing tastes as good as freshly prepared, freshly cooked foods. Bettcher Foodservice offers batter breading machines designed specifically for small kitchens ... but they're big on production power! Just 18” wide, yet you can bread as many as 320 chicken fried steaks in an hour.

Here's a sustainability model that works profitably.

Now you can source fresh, never frozen, locally grown food and then effortlessly batter and bread them for the ultimate in fried or baked food quality. Additionally, this efficient process is much less costly, drastically reducing your food costs at a time when food inflation is out of control.

Plus, special recipes may be developed to delight your customers with fresh, unique breaded food. Our breading machines also extend the fryer oil life when compared to hand breading.

Unbeatable Flavor Profile

If the numbers aren’t enough to convince you, the flavor profile will. You won't believe how good freshly produced, freshly fried foods can taste. There is a reason why they call it "comfort foods!"  Customers feel better about locally source, freshly prepared breaded foods, but it is the taste that will keep them coming back.

The Bettcher Optimax^® or ABB breading machines provide a competitive advantage where local restaurants can order fresh, never frozen, locally grown food and bread it, right in their own kitchens.

Sustainability Benefits:

• The freshest possible product. Never frozen—you never know how old that frozen product might be
• Origin of the meat or vegetable is known
• Makes it easy to source a local, organically raised product
• Flash freezing and deep freezing may be completely eliminated for energy savings
• Reduced trucking, eliminating shipping from processor to distributor, and finally to your location
• Less packaging
• Labor efficient (compared to hand breading)

Supporting Family Farming

When you serve fresh, locally produced food, you’re supporting family farming. 97% of the nation’s farms and ranches are family owned.  For them, producing safe, sustainable, nutritious food is more than a business. It’s a matter of pride and, for many, a generations-old family tradition.