News | July 9, 2008

Rastelli's Smart Processing Solutions Allows Operators To Achieve Menu And Meal Planning Excellence Through Cost Effective, 'Mass Customized' Chef Ready Product

Swedesboro, NJ - For the foodservice and retail operator who wants to offer its customers a rich variety of menu and meal planning choices without wrecking havoc on the bottom line, Rastelli Foods Group has introduced Smart Processing Solutions (recognized as SPS).

This truly unique approach to producing "chef ready" products is aimed at helping commercial and noncommercial foodservice operators, as well as retail supermarket, C-store or Club Store Retailers satisfy the growing consumer demands for a larger variety of menu and/or meal planning offerings while still controlling food costs, shrink, and while increasing profits and reducing chef time preparation.

"Rastelli Foods specializes in producing food products by category in a manner production efficient mass customization process in both the foodservice and retail market channels," says Ray Rastelli, President of Rastelli Foods Group. "We produce your products to your specifications in a: cost effective, premium quality, timely and professional manner, and then package it in a chef friendly inventory-controlled manner for ease of use."

The highly specialized portion control process provides Rastelli Foods the ability to manage the mass customization process specified by its client from production to packaging. Rastelli Foods prepares the operator's product and delivers it mass produced and "chef ready." With over 25 years of preparing food products for both retail operators and foodservice operators, Rastelli Foods with a mandate to provide its clients a streamlined efficient facility has the production capabilities to meet the needs of both the bottom line and menu planning variety for their customer.

Rastelli Foods Group's Smart Processing Solutions (SPS) provides the operator several benefits, which result in:

  • Increased product variety
  • An increased marketing ability to attract new customers
  • Consistent margin enhancements
  • An ability due to new menu products to increased sales dollar per customer
  • Reduced shrink
  • The ability to act quicker to meet competitive influence with new product development and menu engineering

SPS includes:

  • Custom cutting and packaging
  • Portion control
  • Instant freeze technology
  • Shrink wrap packaging
  • Specialized R&D
  • On staff chefs and test kitchen

Rastelli Foods Group has built a reputation on being a world-class company. Truly a company for the 21st century Rastelli Foods Group services retail and foodservice market channels. From product R&D to chef prepared programs, their mass customization business model served their local neighborhood families to providing the military overseas a complete variety of menu planning products ... from retail to foodservice and all means of meal planning in between ...

SOURCE: Rastelli Foods Group