Marmon Foodservice Technologies, Inc.

Joseph Ricker

William James Fienup

Luke Gray

William C Patton, Jr

Jose E Cardona Rivera

Constantine Bovalis

Jose Enrique Cardona

A toaster includes a rack within a toasting chamber. A lid is movable with the rack to selectively occlude an opening to the toasting chamber. A heating element within the toasting chamber is operable to direct IR energy to the bread product on the rack. An image capture device operates to acquire image data of the bread product on the rack. A controller receives the image data. The controller processor analyzes successive image data received from the image capture device. Based upon the analysis of the image data, the controller operates the heating element to achieve a predetermined toasting level of the bread product and then turn off the heating element.

Rapid IR toaster

A method of and container for temperature-controlled meal transport are provided. A food tray accommodation area is defined in the interior of the meal transport container. A plurality of ledges are defined in the food tray accommodation area, the ledges designed to support a plurality of different sized food trays. An insulator is provided to insulate the food tray accommodation area. A pair of integral upper carrying handles and a pair of integral lower handles are provided. The upper integral carrying handles are designed to nest with the integral lower handles when a plurality of meal transport containers are stacked. A thermometer monitors temperature within the food tray accommodation area. Heating elements heat cooked food from a cooled temperature to an appropriate hot-serving temperature, maintain heated food at temperature, and cook raw food.

Temperature-controlled meal transport

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Joseph Ricker