Industry leaders collaborating to transform
restaurant operations
CHICAGO, May 19, 2022
/PRNewswire/ -- As restaurant operators seek to accelerate their
digital transformation in response to labor challenges, changing
consumer behaviors, and increasing cost pressures, AT&T*,
Microsoft and Welbilt are coming together to help restaurants
digitize, simplify and transform their kitchens across the food
service industry.
Welbilt selected AT&T to connect their award-winning
KitchenConnect® cloud solution to build upon their restaurant
equipment manufacturing expertise. KitchenConnect delivers improved
efficiency, reduced cost, and enhanced food quality to commercial
kitchens.
"Using AT&T's wireless IoT networks to connect all the sites
for a particular foodservice brand helps us quickly improve
customers' operations through digital transformation while
connecting all the equipment at a restaurant with Microsoft
technology like Azure Sphere gives us a great level of trust in the
technology and security we are providing to our restaurant and
foodservice customers," said Omar Jacques
Omran, Welbilt's VP of Digital/Managing Director of
KitchenConnect.
KitchenConnect from Welbilt enables restaurant owners and
operators to quickly deploy the latest approach to digitally
transforming their restaurant and food service brands. The solution
provides secure telemetry by connecting new and existing food
preparation equipment with Azure Sphere powered guardian devices to
Microsoft Azure IoT services. With AT&T's wireless cellular
connectivity, one can keep the IoT data separate from other store
systems for better scale and security.
Restaurant operators and foodservice retailers may now:
- Monitor kitchen equipment with a single pane of glass approach
and use predictive maintenance analytics that can save hundreds of
dollars per avoided incident by minimizing downtime and service
calls
- Save crew time by automatically pushing recipe updates to all
equipment sites to ensure oven profiles are updated to support new
product offerings or limited time offers
- Track food safety and equipment across the restaurant food
journey potentially saving hundreds of dollars a month
- Save thousands of dollars per year with real-time oil quality,
filtration, and cleaning monitoring
- Greatly increase equipment longevity with regular monitoring
across all a restaurant brand's locations
- Provide energy management to save costs with high energy
appliances, HVAC (Heating, ventilation and air conditioning), and
lighting monitoring.
"Adding Welbilt's decades of commercial kitchen equipment
experience built into their KitchenConnect software to the existing
AT&T and Microsoft collaboration makes this an extremely
compelling solution to the restaurant and foodservice industry,"
said Greg Wieboldt, Senior Vice
President, Global Enterprise Solutions at AT&T. "This will
enable us to accelerate the digital transformation of an entire
restaurant chain in a matter of months."
"Security by design has become an unnegotiable priority in IoT.
With Azure Sphere, Microsoft is providing a unique edge-to-cloud
offering designed to simplify the development and deployment of
secured IoT solutions," said Bin Shen, Vice President Communication
Partners, Global Channel Sales, at Microsoft. "The triad of Azure's
secure, interoperable IoT platform with AT&T's wireless network
and Welbilt's industry excellence helps operators create
value-added connected restaurant experiences. They can turn data
insights into business-critical actions while trusting that their
hardware and software are securely connected."
Visit Welbilt exhibit (booth #4023, South Hall) at the 2022
Restaurant Show in Chicago at
McCormick Place, from May
21st – May 24.
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About Welbilt, Inc.
Welbilt, Inc. (NYSE: WBT) provides the world's top chefs,
premier chain operators and growing independents with
industry-leading equipment and solutions. Our innovative products
and solutions are powered by our deep knowledge, operator insights,
and culinary expertise. Our portfolio of award-winning product
brands includes Cleveland™, Convotherm®, Crem®, Delfield®,
Frymaster®, Garland®, Kolpak®, Lincoln®, Manitowoc® Ice, Merco®,
Merrychef® and Multiplex®. These product brands are supported by
three service brands: KitchenCare®, our aftermarket parts and
service brand, FitKitchen®, our fully-integrated kitchen systems
brand, and KitchenConnect®, our cloud-based digital platform brand.
Headquartered in the Tampa Bay
region of Florida and operating 19
manufacturing facilities throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia, we sell through a global network of over
5,000 distributors, dealers, buying groups and manufacturers'
representatives in over 100 countries. We have approximately 4,700
employees and generated sales of $1.5
billion in 2021. For more information, visit
www.welbilt.com.
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