Speedwrap Pro: Marginal Gains, Major Savings

What does it mean to be a cut above?

In a world of intense competition between similar products, the Speedwrap Pro ensures professional caterers rise above the competition. How? By facilitating marginal gains in the kitchen.

The Speedwrap Pro’s patented safety blade, BioCote antimicrobial protection, simplified design, and sustainable manufacturing help professional chefs have a big impact on productivity, costs, and waste.

A better way to improve

The theory of marginal gains argues that small improvements made to every aspect of an operation can be just as effective as big, sweeping changes. Look at any common kitchen KPI, whether that’s your average preparation time, amount of food wasted per shift, or customer satisfaction scores. Improving any of them by 100% is a tall order – but improving 100 things by 1% each will have a substantial overall impact on your business and is much more achievable.

These marginal gains can cover everything from your hand-washing routine to your food wrapping system to the way the pans are laid out on your shelves. Individually, making them 1% more efficient might not seem to make much difference, but taken alongside a bunch of other 1% improvements, they can add up quickly to create a faster, safer, and more profitable kitchen.

Gearing up for change

So how can you go about making these marginal gains in your kitchen? Part of it relies on getting ‘buy-in’ from your staff, which can be easier said than done in this era of high staff turnover and labour shortages.

A safer bet is to invest in equipment that enables all staff, regardless of their experience level, to make the most out of it. And, even better, think about how that equipment can support multiple aspects of a kitchen’s operation.

For example, when looking at our complete wrapping dispenser solution, the Speedwrap Pro, it’s easy to see it in action once in a video or at a trade show and think of it as a nice-to-have, but not an essential. But this is ignoring the hundreds of marginal gains that a Speedwrap Pro can deliver – which add up to make all the difference to your day-to-day operations.

Saving time and money – in all areas of the kitchen

For one, it’ll save you a little more of the one thing we all need more of: time. Whereas other dispensing systems are clunky and awkward to use, the Speedwrap Pro is effortlessly quick – a huge bonus for kitchens with multi-lingual staff or staff of differing abilities. In a fast-paced kitchen environment where every second counts, these saved seconds can add up to give your staff breathing room in other areas. In this way, a marginal gain has positive effects across your business.

That’s not all. The Speedwrap Pro features a patented safety blade that only unsheathes once the lid has been fully pressed. This makes it much less likely that you’ll accidentally cut yourself, reducing the risk of Lost Time Injuries (LTIs) and reducing RIDDOR obligations.

Not only that, but the BioCote®-powered antimicrobial technology built into the body of the dispenser inhibits the spread of potentially harmful microbes such as salmonella and E.coli, making it easy to clean thoroughly with a simple wipe down. That’s a few more precious seconds saved in your day-to-day hygiene routine.

Marginal gains can also trigger a chain reaction of positive effects, creating further time savings and quality improvements. Since it’s so simple to use, the Speedwrap Pro enables kitchen managers to train new staff easily, so everyone works to the same standards when it comes to hygiene and food preservation. Now kitchen staff can wrap food in the blink of an eye, they have no reason to cut corners when things get hectic, so proper storage and segregation of fresh ingredients is easier. By reducing the risk of contamination, this also reduces the amount of food your kitchen wastes every shift, helping to protect margins at a time when most of the industry is finding them squeezed.

Cutting waste and CO₂ emissions with every roll

Speedwrap Pro supports chefs’ sustainability efforts thanks to its unique refill roll design that helps operators significantly cut plastic waste.

The new roll design for cling film, aluminium foil, and baking parchment replaces the plastic adaptor insert with a notched cardboard core, meaning all refill rolls are plastic-free and fully recyclable at end of use. Each plastic adapter insert is relatively small, but given the amount of wrapping the average catering business uses in a year, they add up to an enormous amount of plastic waste.

Used as an example, one catering business has saved 27,450 plastic adaptors from being produced every year – that’s 178kg of plastic that no longer needs to be produced. If you stacked up all that plastic, it would reach 823m into the air. That’s just under the height of the Burj Khalifa (828m), the world’s tallest building!

What’s more, these plastic reductions also have a huge impact on carbon emissions: the same catering business saved enough CO₂ to charge 1.2 million smartphones. Another example of how marginal gains can have dramatic impacts.

If every catering and hospitality business in the industry used these insert-free rolls, there’s no telling how much unnecessary plastic the foodservice industry would save.

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It all adds up

In fact, all of these marginal gains – a few seconds here, and a few pennies there – will add up to make a huge difference over the course of a year. In reality, the marginal gains offered by Speedwrap Pro aren’t that marginal at all – they can be absolutely massive and make a real difference to your bottom line.

Learn more about why Prowrap is a leader in the sustainable food wrapping space – visit www.prowrap.co.uk or reach out to the Prowrap team at sales@wrapex.co.uk today.