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New Twists On Old Favorites

If you’re looking for new menu items that are not only nutritious, but delicious we have some suggestions for you! First things first, you will need a Quik n’ Crispy greaseless air fryer to be able to fry foods in a healthier way. In the Quik n’ Crispy greaseless fryer, all of the foods are fried with simply hot air, leaving the food crispy on the outside and moist on the inside while being lower in fat, cholesterol, and calories!

5 of the most popular items cooked in the Quik n’ Crispy greaseless air fryer include:

  1. Egg Rolls
  2. Corn Dogs
  3. Cheese Sticks
  4. Vegetables
  5. French Fries

Now that you know what is most commonly cooked with our fryer, let’s talk about some spins you can do to those classics. Here are the 5 most common ways we’re seeing the popular items being spun:

Sweet Potato Fries

This is a classic twist to fries! If you don’t have these on your menu already as an alternative option, they should be.

Zucchini Fries

Yummy and nutritious spin on the classic french fries! Add a little parmesan on top and you have yourself an addicting new menu item to make in your greaseless air fryer.

Korean Corn Dogs

If you haven’t seen or heard about all the rage on social media platforms, Korean Corn Dogs are all the new rage. There’s so much you can do with them and add to them. You can make some unique and scrumptious corn dogs.

Corn Ribs

An even newer and trendier idea, but get people talking with some corn ribs!

Jalapeno Poppers 

Cheese and jalapenos, what is not to love? These should be on your menu if they aren’t already!

Various Vegetables

You can’t forget about your veggies! This covers a wide variety of vegetables, from peppers to onions to cauliflower! Your customers can eat something delicious and nutritious while still getting in their fiber intake. 

These trendy ideas are just the beginning of all the creative foods you can add to your menu with your new Quik n’ Crispy greaseless fryer. Buy or lease a Quik n’ Crispy greaseless fryer today! For more information about our commercial air fryer, give us a call today!

Small Kitchen? No Problem!

Does your family entertainment center or restaurant have a small kitchen? That’s not a problem! Of course in an ideal world, every kitchen would have all the room it needed. Working in a tighter space does make things more challenging, however it is not impossible! It’s all about being more strategic with your space.

Here are 4 tips to being more strategic with your small kitchen space:

Create a layout that works for your space

You may need to get away from the different main styles of layouts to find something that works best for your space. When it comes to creating a layout, keep in mind how many people you’ll have working at a time, menu items, appliances, and stations.

Choose menu items wisely

Being strategic with your menu may be the hardest piece of this, but it’s the one you’ll be the most grateful for. You’ll want to choose ingredients that can be used in multiple dishes. This will also help cut down on costs since you can’t buy things in larger bulk amounts and waste from food going bad.

Maximize the storage space

When it comes to storage space in small spaces, you’ll want to think vertically when it comes to shelving. Investing in stackable bins, bowls, and other items can help you save the little bit of space you have.

Optimize the kitchen equipment

When choosing kitchen equipment, you’ll want to choose equipment pieces that can cook a good portion of your menu items. It’s important to choose what you’ll use wisely. Choosing something like the Quik n’ Crispy greaseless air fryer is a great idea, because it can cook a variety of menu items.

Even small kitchens can produce delicious, healthy food with a QNC fryer. Learn more about the specifications of Quik n’ Crispy greaseless air fryers here.

Stock Up For Fall Fun At Your Family Entertainment Center

The days are getting shorter, kids are back in school, and people are back from their summer vacations. Is your family entertainment center ready for the busy fall season? If not, now is the time to make sure your family entertainment center is fully prepared for the busiest season of the year. Check out these 3 tips you can start doing today to keep things running smoothly as business picks up:

Order any equipment or supplies you need now!

From refilling office supplies and restocking the prize counter to upgrading kitchen equipment and stocking up on food, you’ll want to start the season with your full resources available. If you’ve been considering purchasing a Quik n’ Crispy hot air fryer, now is the time! If you already own one, remember to stock up on snacks, appetizers, entrees, and desserts.

Evaluate last year.

Set aside time to take a look at last year’s sales, customer feedback, and marketing tactics. What worked? What didn’t? Check-in with your team to see if they have ideas or feedback to help improve operations.

Make sure your team is ready to hit the ground running!

Have a meeting to refresh your employees on proper customer service and how to manage multiple tasks during peak hours. Well-trained employees will keep your FEC running like a well-oiled machine and keep the customers happy.

With today’s more health-conscious consumers, it pays to invest in healthy menu items that your customers can feel good about ordering. To learn more about our greaseless air fryers, take a look at our video page!

School Cafeteria Staples Are Better With A Quik n’ Crispy Greaseless Fryer!

Back to school season is here! Whether you’re a parent, kid, or school employee, summer never seems to last long enough. But now that it’s over and we’re all beaded back to class, it’s time to start talking about helping kids choose healthier options for school lunch!

The Quik n’ Crispy is a revolutionary greaseless air fryer that prepares food quickly, nutritiously, and without losing taste or texture. Our hot air technology makes it easy for the kitchen staff to prepare a variety of foods in quantities large enough for a school cafeteria. Because it’s prepared without hot oil, each meal or snack contains 20% to 40% less fat and calories than the same foods cooked in a fryer.

Studies show that a healthy, filling lunch can help students focus more in class and get better grades – after all, no one likes to learn on an empty stomach! Teaching kids to eat healthy doesn’t mean only offering foods that picky eaters will turn their noses up at; students and parents alike love the tastier, healthier versions of students’ favorite meals.

A Quik n’ Crispy greaseless commercial air fryer is a great investment for schools to start offering healthier foods without losing the taste kids love. Here are 10 school cafeteria stapes that are better with a Quik n’ Crispy fryer:

  1. French Fries
  2. Onion Rings
  3. Mini Corn Dogs
  4. Corn Dogs
  5. Hot Dogs
  6. Chicken Nuggets
  7. Chicken Patty Sandwich
  8. Cheese Sticks
  9. Char Broiled Hamburger
  10. Individual Pizza

Don’t let another school year pass by without making a healthy investment that gives back. Buy or lease a Quik n’ Crispy greaseless fryer today. For more information about our commercial air fryer and how they can fit into a healthier regiment for your students, give us a call today!

Drive Food Sales With These 3 Menu Tips

Many restaurants are considering raising their menu prices to help offset the inflation that is heavily affecting the restaurant industry. While raising prices is a completely understandable approach due to needing to recover those costs somehow, it may not be the best choice for your business. Raising your menu prices across the board is a short term solution to a long term problem and you also risk losing customers.

How To Combat Inflation At Your Restaurant

There are other ways you can deal with inflation within your restaurant. One of these is to improve your restaurant menu design! A well designed menu can improve your customers’ entire experience at your restaurant, boost the perceived value of your brand, strategically drive customer buying decisions, and increase your profits. 

Test out these 3 tips to increase your restaurant’s food sales:

Categorize Menu Items

Consider categorizing your menu items based on popularity and profit. Not the standard categories such as appetizers, entrées, desserts, and beverages. Instead, go through your menu in terms of popularity and profitability. By classifying your menu, you can be more strategic about your menu design.

Limit Choice

Limiting your customers’ choices helps guide their buying decisions. You may want to provide customers with as many dishes as possible, but more choice isn’t always better. Too much choice can actually lead your customers to not choose at all! Have you ever been to a restaurant that has such an extensive menu that you struggled to decide what to order? Maybe you struggled so much that you likely chose something tried and true like chicken tenders. We’ve all been there! Limiting your customers’ choices by offering a smaller menu helps you see more profit on every check.

Place High Margin Items Strategically

You’ll want to place high margin items in the golden triangle of the menu. It is the area of your menu that your customers read first. The golden triangle is in the middle of the menu. Research states that customers’ eyes typically move to the middle of the menu first. Then their eyes move to the top right corner, and finally to the top left.

We hope this shows you how you can drive food sales with your restaurant’s menu! Looking for other ways to cut costs in your restaurants? We’ve got you covered!

The QNC Greaseless Fryer Makes Serving Customers Easy!

As business owners, we are always looking for ways to be more efficient within our business and make our customers happier. The Quik n’ Crispy greaseless air fryer could be a great new addition to making your restaurant more efficient and serving your customers easier. Keep reading to learn why you should consider making this addition to your commercial kitchen!

We pride ourselves in the QNC greaseless fryer making kitchen management EASY!

Easy to incorporate

Our greaseless air fryer is easy to incorporate into your restaurant’s already established kitchen. There’s a wide variety of items already on your menu that you can now cook in your new QNC fryer. Also, there are most likely a ton of items you can add to your menu with your new addition.

Easy to clean

One of the things most business owners forget to look into before ordering a new kitchen appliance for their restaurant is if it is easy to clean. Well, good news! The QNC greaseless air fryer is easy to clean. Your employees won’t get mad if they get put on cleaning duty with our fryer.

Easy to operate

The QNC greaseless air fryer is easy to operate and doesn’t require a lot of additional employee training. It is not complicated or confusing like some other commercial kitchen appliances can be. We’re happy to say our fryer is not only user friendly, but it is safe! Safer than a standard fryer in most commercial kitchens.

We hope this shows you how to make serving your customers easier on your employees! Your customers and employees won’t have any complaints with this new addition to your commercial kitchen. Now that you’ve decided a new QNC fryer will help you serve your customers, check out 3 ways to get the most out of your new fryer.

3 Ways To Cut Costs In Your Restaurant

Restaurant management is challenging in a lot of ways – from rent and food to labor and marketing. What’s the one thing they all have in common? They require money (typically a lot of it), not to mention the toll that inflation takes on the restaurant industry as a whole. Historically, restaurants tend to be the first place consumers cut spending during inflation periods. So now is the time to start looking for ways your restaurant can save money. Luckily, we have 3 of our top cost-cutting tips for you.

Reduce Food Waste

Food waste is an epidemic in America. It is not only a waste of money to buy food that ends up in the trash, but it also costs you time and can increase your trash fees. You can reduce food waste at your restaurant in several ways, including:

  • Auditing your menu and eliminating the worst-sellers
  • Including menu items with longer shelf lives, like frozen fries and cheese sticks that can be prepared in your Quik n’ Crispy greaseless air fryer.
  • Creating a small, curated list of menu items that can be used to create multiple dishes. The smaller your menu and ingredients, the easier it is to avoid food waste.

Save Energy

The great thing about this tip is it’s great for the environment and your budget! There are lots of ways to save energy in a restaurant from using high efficiency applications to putting bathroom lights on a timer or motion detector. Every little bit counts! From turning off lights to saving water, they’ll all add up to less money spent on your electricity and water bills.

Embrace Minimalist Design

Assuming your brand is compatible, try streamlining the decor in your restaurant as much as possible. A great wall color, attractive lighting and furnishings, and sparkling cleanliness can make just as good of an impression as linen tablecloths and expensive decor. With this, not only will your dining area be easier to clean and maintain, but you’ll also save extra money on expenses like washing said linen tablecloths. It seems small, but will add up to a lot of money over months and years.

We hope these tips help you cut costs in your restaurant! If you’re interested in incorporating our space-efficient greaseless air fryer into your restaurant, shop online or contact us for more information.

Make More $$$ With These Menu Items

If you’re ready to start making more money with some of your menu items, we have some suggestions for you. We get asked a lot about what menu items are being prepared by our customers in their Quik n’ Crispy and what the prices are that they charge for these items.

We have accumulated the information listed below through speaking with our various customers throughout the US that own and operate similar facilities as you do!

The specific menu items prepared and the selling price of each will vary based on the local demographics. Many of the operators purchase their food items from wholesale clubs and cash and carry locations. Some examples of places we see a majority of our customers purchase from are Sam’s Club, Price Club, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Sysco Cash and Carry, Smart and Final, and United Grocers Cash and Carry.

Here’s an overview of the more popular menu items prepared by our customers in their Quik n’ Crispy along with the cost and pricing information:

Menu Item

Serving Size

Food Cost

Retail Price

Gross Profit

French Fries4oz.$.20$1.29$1.09
Onion Rings4oz.$.44$1.69$1.25
Mini Corn Dogs5 count / 3.35 oz.$.60$1.80$1.20
Corn Dogs1 count / 2.67 oz.$.30$.99$.69
Hot Dogs1 hot dog / 1.6 oz.$.25$.99$.74
Chicken Nuggets5 count / 3.3 oz.$.40$1.59$1.19
Chicken Patty Sandwich3 oz. breaded breast$.65$1.95$1.30
Cheese Sticks5 count / 4 oz.$.82$2.50$1.73
Char Broiled Hamburger2.9 pz. meat portion$.55$1.95$1.40
5″ Individual Supreme Pizza6.5 oz. round deep dish$.75$1.75$1.00

 

If you’d like a complete list of food products that can be prepared in the Quick n’ Crispy, check out our 34 page menu that has 1,00+ items for you to choose from.

It’s time you start making more money with your menu items! If you’re interested in learning more about the Quick n’ Crispy greaseless air fryer, watch our videos about our fryer models and more.

Set Up For Summer Success

Summer is here and kids are out of school! Parents are looking for fun things to do with their family that are out of the heat like visiting air-conditioned indoor family centers, country clubs, and rec centers. This means your business is bound to be busy! Is your family entertainment center ready for the summer rush?

Keep your guests happy and coming back for more with these tips to prepare for a busy summer:

 

Prep Your Staff

Now is the time to review customer service and operational guidelines and processes to see if you can simplify or streamline operations during peak hours. Training staff on these new processes will also help ensure that things run smoothly all summer long.

Stock Up Now

Make sure you have plenty of inventory including any good items. This way you won’t have to worry about disappointing hungry kids or their parents with a shortage of their favorite snacks.

Offer Healthy Menu Options

Parents tend to pay closer attention to what their kids are doing and eating during the summer. Eating well can help prevent summer learning loss and childhood obesity. Offering healthier menu options like those you cook with our greaseless hot air fryers will help set your business apart as a kid-friendly option. Parents will feel good about taking their kids to your business when looking for summer entertainment for their families.

Now is the time to make sure your family entertainment center is ready to go for the summer rush! Shop our greaseless hot air fryers or check out our videos for more information on our greaseless hot air fryers.

Quik n’ Crispy’s 2022 Tradeshow Schedule

Meet the Quik n’ Crispy crew in 2022! From Texas to London and everywhere in between, we’re headed to a ton of exciting locations this year, and we hope we’ll get to chat with you at one of the upcoming shows. 

If you’d like to talk with us prior to a show, please send us an email at news@q-n-c.com or give us a call at 972-668-8993

Upcoming Events

National Restaurant Association

  • May 21-24
  • Booth 352 at the McCormick Place in Chicago, IL

Texas  Association for School Nutrition

  • June 28
  • Booth LMS at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Fort Worth, TX

School Nutrition Association

  • July 15-16
  • Booth 529 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL

IAAPA Europe

  • September 13-15
  • Booth 332 at the Excel Center in London, UK

National Recreation and Park Association

  • September 20-21
  • Booth 2028 at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, AZ

National Association of C-Stores (NACS)

  • October 2-4
  • Booth TBD at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV

IAAPA

  • November 15-18
  • Booth 624 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL
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