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Metro Sets New Standards in the Food Service Industry with Innovative Kitchen Solutions

Two breakthrough products are reshaping how restaurants balance efficiency with sustainability in their daily operations

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By Hospitality · Intermetro Industries CorporationInternational Restaurant & Food Service Show of New YorkMightylitePrepmate
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Two breakthrough products are reshaping how restaurants balance efficiency with sustainability in their daily operations

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At the International Restaurant & Food Service Show of New York, an event renowned for highlighting the latest trends and innovations in the food service industry, Metro unveiled two of its newest products designed to set new standards in kitchen efficiency and food quality: the Mightylite and PrepMate. This showcase provided an ideal platform for introducing these breakthroughs to industry professionals eager for solutions that address both operational efficiency and sustainability.

Farrad Condry, National Account Specialist at Metro, presented the Mightylite, a robust and innovative container made from Expanded Polypropylene (EPP), featuring 30% more material for unparalleled durability. Its design not only supports the weight of an adult, facilitating access to higher storage spaces but also maintains the temperature of hot and rolled products for over five hours, ensuring meals remain warm and flavorful. The presentation at the show emphasized Mightylite's role in enhancing food service operations through improved storage and handling.

Its design not only supports the weight of an adult, facilitating access to higher storage spaces but also maintains the temperature of hot and rolled products for over five hours, ensuring meals remain warm and flavorful.

Glen Lawless, National Account Sales Manager at Metro, introduced PrepMate, a versatile tool designed to revolutionize kitchen prep areas. By tackling common challenges such as limited space and inefficient work surfaces, the PrepMate offers a compact, overhead work surface that optimizes chopping and sliding tasks while promoting a tidy and efficient workspace. Demonstrated at the New York show, the PrepMate's ability to enable on-demand preparation anywhere in the kitchen was highlighted as a key factor in improving kitchen workflow and staff comfort in the food service industry.

The PrepMate's ability to enable on-demand preparation anywhere in the kitchen was highlighted as a key factor in improving kitchen workflow and staff comfort in the food service industry.

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Hello. I'm Farah Conry. I'm with Metro. And today, what I wanna talk to you about is our amazing product called the mighty lane. Made out of EPP, thirty percent more material to make sure it's very, very durable. Best thing about it, I can stand on it. Makes me taller so I can reach things on a top shelf. But the really neat thing about this is holt's material, hot and rolled products with five plus hours. So that means food to stay warm, great, and delicious. All at once. This is the prep made. Basically, it gives you anywhere prep on demand. You basically have, you know, too many people are, you know, doing prep on sheet pans on trash cans buckets. We don't want that. We don't wanna waste any space. So what you have is a overhead work surface. Allows you to put chop slide and see what I'm doing right here. What it does is allows you to stack your workspace efficiently also. Give me on demand, anywhere you go. And the great thing about this too is that they found that earning homage to just being comfortable is a third productivity. So I've been to see here, you're gonna get a lot more efficient on demand.

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