Restaurant Technology Inc.

Steve Kroll

James C Schindler

Chester J Binks

A fry basket for supporting food items, such as pies and fish filets, to be cooked in an immersed position in a cooking medium. The fry basket has a generally rigid frame presenting parallel, spaced-apart transverse support members. A unitary sheet of low heat capacity flexible material is supported from the transverse frame members to form a plurality of pouches. Each pouch has a pair of opposed sidewalls and a bottom portion with each of the sidewalls of each pouch hanging from a transverse frame member of define, together with the pouch bottom portion, a pouch having a generally U-shaped cross-sectional configuration.

Low heat capacity fry basket assembly

An apparatus is provided for cooking frozen french fries in which a supply of frozen potato pieces is held in a hopper and in which the potato pieces are continuously fed from the hopper at a predetermined, adjustable rate, by means of an upwardly slanting endless conveyor, into an enclosed bath of hot cooking liquid. Water vapor generated when the frozen potato pieces contact the hot liquid is removed by a vapor extraction system. A second endless conveyor is provided within the cooking liquid to carry the potato pieces submerged within the liquid while being cooked. The speed of the potato pieces through the cooking liquid is continuously adjusted, in response to cooking liquid temperature fluctuations, as necessary to provide french fries consistently cooked to the same degree. The french fries are automatically discharged from the apparatus.

Automatic french fryer

A sandwich bin for fast food restaurant service. The sandwich bin provides always open front and rear service openings and air curtains for each of the service openings. The air in the air curtains is recycled through chambers at the sides of the sandwich bin to beneath the floor from where it is recirculated through ducts and over heaters to be discharged through air curtain forming nozzles. The turbulence in the sandwich bin is at a minimum, thereby providing an atmosphere in which sandwiches will remain hot and moist, without significant drying.

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Schaumburg, IL, United States of America

Steve Kroll