Case study

Sandwiches in consistent top quality at Kantine Offenburg

How can delicate ingredients for high-quality fast food be processed quickly, safely and economically?
Say goodbye to pre-portioned trays - Kantine Offenburg prides itself on topping bread with freshly-sliced meat. This is made possible by the GSP HD automatic diagonal slicer. All employees can use it to produce sandwiches quickly without any food waste and of consistent quality.
  • Experience
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he canteen's gastronomic concept is unrivalled in Offenburg. On the premises of an art gallery, the young start-up produces and serves sandwiches of exceptional quality, topped with freshly-sliced warm meat from regional production, accompanied by wafer-thin mortadella cheese or finely chopped vegetables. Every sandwich is made to order, and things have to be done quickly, because many customers come during their lunch break. Nevertheless, it is important to follow the recipes to the letter and avoid food waste. While looking for a machine that could cut and weigh with the highest precision, speed up processes and gently process high-quality ingredients, the owner of the canteen came across the GSP HD automatic diagonal slicer from Bizerba.
Company
Kantine Offenburg
Since April 2023, Kantine Offenburg has been enriching its fast food menu for guests with high demands on freshness, quality and sustainability. Alongside sandwiches, the menu also includes salads, the warm specialty mac & cheese, as well as desserts including ice cream and cheesecake. Dips and sauces are made in-house and all food comes from regional production. The four types of bread for the sandwiches were developed specifically for the canteen, with the help of a local baker.
  • One branch
  • 5 employees
  • on-site sales and catering
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“We stand for honest cuisine with regional products. Our aim is to put perfectly-sliced food products on bread quickly and without waste. Bizerba supports us in this.”
Martin Kammerer
Founder and owner
“Kantine Offenburg follows an innovative concept. I am all the more pleased that with the GSP HD we can offer our customers the ultimate taste experience. This is achieved through very precise and fine cutting of very high quality products. This experience can be reproduced over the long term, and it can be standardised thanks to the integrated scale.”
Alexander Pogacnik
Retail Product Line Manager for Bizerba Global Sales & Marketing
Challenge

Processing high-quality foods quickly and carefully

As canteen owner Martin Kammerer knows, differentiation is an important success factor in the catering industry. He wanted to offer a new menu for the growing target group of health- and environmentally conscious fast food lovers. Inspired by nearby France, where croques are a popular bistro dish, and by the range of possible recipes, sandwiches seemed to be the obvious choice.

Sandwiches just in time

In order to stand out from the competition and offer maximum freshness and quality, the ingredients for each sandwich should only be cut when ordered. However, this presents the restaurateur with a time problem - no matter who makes a sandwich in the canteen, the customer should not be made to wait longer than ten minutes. "If there was a chef whose only job was to slice meat, our concept wouldn't work," says Martin Kammerer. "That would take far too long; and it wouldn't be economical either, because it would waste the resources of a skilled worker."

Efficient and sustainable gastronomy

For this task, a machine was needed that delivered the highest cutting performance, enabled quick work processes, and could also be operated by assistants. In addition, it had to be able to make sandwiches 100 percent exactly reproducible in order to ensure consistent quality and minimise food waste. "I have been familiar with Bizerba for as long as I have been working in the catering industry. The precision, reliability and resilience of the devices are well known. I really appreciate it. That's why I looked at Bizerba first," remembers Kammerer.

Solution

Automatic cutting, accurate to the gram

The decision was made in favour of the GSP HD automatic diagonal slicer. "We worked with Mr Kammerer to determine which machine would best meet his requirements," explains Alexander Pogacnik, Retail Product Line Manager at Bizerba Global Sales & Marketing. "We had a test phase on-site that lasted several weeks, during which we made adjustments based on customer requirements." Martin Kammerer says of his experiences with Bizerba: "The support is premium. People ask with interest how we are getting on with the machine and whether we are satisfied. This is us. It works exactly the way we want it to."

Fits perfectly into the concept

In day-to-day operation, the GSP HD quickly proved itself and fulfilled all customer requirements. It automatically cuts the canteen's high-quality products to the target weight - from 0.5 millimetre thin slices of mortadella to 3 millimetre thick pineapple chunks and slices of warm pork belly - even when space is limited. It cuts with high precision and evenly, and can be cleaned quickly and easily thanks to the removable cutting blade. The GSP HD fits into both the operational and visual concept of a catering business that values modernity and sustainability.

Intelligent technology saves costs

GSP HD saves time and service costs thanks to SmarterSlicing: The digital user interface provides all the relevant information at a glance, and indicators tell the counter team when it is time to clean the machine, sharpen the blade or carry out maintenance work. This enables optimal processes. The powerful, intelligent Emotion® knife drive also works efficiently. It saves up to 55% energy and also ensures low-noise operation. This means that the canteen staff can fully concentrate on fulfilling the wishes of the customers.

Benefits

Man and machine work hand-in-hand

Today, the GSP HD is the heart of the canteen's sandwich production line. It automatically cuts warm meat, cheese, vegetables and all other ingredients to the exact amount specified in the recipe, while the employees set about preparing the sandwiches. "Our customers are often amazed when the chef inserts the meat, starts the machine and then simply turns away," says Kammerer happily. Once the meat has been cut, the sandwich is ready to be topped and served to the customer a few seconds later.

Fast food at the highest level

In conclusion, the canteen owner remarks: “The GSP HD automatic diagonal slicer makes it possible to produce sandwiches the way we always imagined. With this machine, we can offer fast food at the highest level. It also helps us to calculate quantities reliably so that we are economical and sustainable at the same time. It is part of a successful catering concept."

Food waste is reduced to a minimum and energy savings also ensure that the preparation process is very sustainable.”
Alexander Pogacnik
Retail Product Line Manager for Bizerba Global Sales & Marketing

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Sandwiches per day
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Meat throughput per month
“Our suggestions for adjusting the machine even more individually to our requirements were immediately taken up and implemented. Nothing could have been done better.”
Martin Kammerer
Founder and owner
“High-quality fast food is certainly a growing trend. Kantine Offenburg is a pioneer in this field, thanks to the great work of Mr Kammerer and the canteen team.”
Alexander Pogacnik
Retail Product Line Manager for Bizerba Global Sales & Marketing
Components

The Kantine Offenburg solution

Slicing
Automatic gravity slicer GSP HD
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