Labour shortages continue to be an issue for foodservice operations of all shapes, sizes and locations for the foreseeable future. With that, operators have been spending a great deal of time finding ways to do more with less. HORMEL® BACON 1TM Perfectly Cooked Bacon is a premium product that can directly reduce labour costs, without compromising the quality of the products being served.
Pre-cooking bacon from raw can be one of the most labour-intensive and time-consuming processes in kitchen operations, especially when you factor in the cleanup and waste disposal. As a pre-cooked frozen product, HORMEL® BACON 1TM Perfectly Cooked Bacon is a unique fully cooked solution that reduces prep and cook time, shrinkage and waste while still delivering all the attributes of cooked from raw bacon.
In half the time of conventional bacon, operators can serve consistently crispy and delicious bacon with fewer pans and almost none of the grease.
“One of the biggest challenges that operators are dealing with is having kitchen staff spending too much time on unproductive tasks such as pre-cooking bacon from raw, when they should be spending that time on more value-added tasks,” says Dan Glendinning, Country Manager, Canada Foodservice for Hormel Foods Canada. “HORMEL® BACON 1TM Perfectly Cooked Bacon is one way to reduce prep and cleanup time so staff can be reassigned to jobs that can be more profitable to their business.”
HORMEL® BACON 1TM Perfectly Cooked Bacon allows operators to enjoy all the benefits of serving cooked-from-raw bacon without the usual time and labour spent traying, and cooking it off, he adds. “Even cleanup is a lot easier and less time consuming because there is much less fat and fewer pans to deal with.”
This kind of efficiency is especially important in a world where finding and retaining staff is the most challenging it has ever been. “One key to efficiency and profitability is eliminating low value, unprofitable functions so you can make better use of the people you do have. But you need to be able to do that without compromising the quality of what you are serving” says Glendinning.
Because HORMEL® BACON 1TM Perfectly Cooked Bacon can be cooked in less than five minutes, operators can not only eliminate the whole part of cooking off bacon in the morning, there’s no need to hold product for five to six hours in the day, he notes. “When you do that, the quality is not there. With HORMEL® BACON 1TM Perfectly Cooked Bacon you don’t have to cook all the bacon off in the morning. Instead, you can give your customers a fresher product any time of the day. When you look at the cost per case versus the final cost, you will quickly discover that the savings on time and labour can quickly add up.”
