Frying High: Elevating Cooking Oil Maintenance with Automation

Recently, one Zaxby’s franchisee decided to change how employees maintain cooking oil by switching to automated oil management. The new system has simplified oil changeouts at the restaurants, while also saving the franchisee money and taking a literal load off employees’ hands.

1788 Chicken owns and operates 60 Zaxby’s locations across eight states. Among the many ways the franchisee supports its restaurants is by helping make sure employees correctly filter and change cooking oil. This helps the business manage its bottom line – especially given the higher cost of cooking oil in recent years – and the quality of the food coming out of its kitchens.

One key to cooking chicken fingers and other menu items like fries, wings and fried pickles to the quality that both Zaxby’s and customers expect is properly maintaining cooking oil. However, ensuring oil is properly filtered and routinely changed every day across many restaurants is no simple task. 

“Having good quality…