CHICAGO — The National Restaurant Association (NRA) announced the recipients of the 2016 Kitchen Innovations Awards, honouring forward-thinking equipment and technologies that benefit restaurant operators by increasing efficiencies and productivity for back-of-the-house operations.
“KI Award recipients exemplify the advancements from foodservice industry professionals that solve the complex challenges of day-to-day back-of-house operations,” says Lisa Ingram, convention chair for NRA Show 2016 and president and CEO of White Castle System, Inc. “Recognition by our esteemed independent panel of judges, who have a wealth of combined institutional knowledge, underscores the true innovation of the award recipients and their contribution to making our foodservice industry even better.”
Each award recipient and their product will be showcased in the interactive Kitchen Innovations Pavilion at the 2016 National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show, held from May 21 to 24 in Chicago.
The 2016 Kitchen Innovations Award recipients are:
• Beverage Air
• Blodgett
• Champion Industries
• Detecto
• Duke Mfg.
• Ecomarks Plastics
• Follett Corp.
• Franke Coffee Systems North America
• Goodnature
• Hestan
• Kitchen Brains
• Manitowoc Foodservice
• Meiko
• Nemco Food Equipment
• Rational
• Restaurant Technologies
• Star Manufacturing
• Strahman Valves
• Taylor Company
• Turbo Coil
• The Vollrath Company
• Vulcan
• WP Bakery Systems
