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OiLChef has been named the Restaurant Solution of the Year Award winner at the 2026 Restaurant & Takeaway Innovation Expo, held at Excel London, marking a significant international recognition for the company’s innovative restaurant frying technology.

The award recognizes a concept that has made a significant and powerful impact on the restaurant industry through innovation, functionality and design. 

OiLChef’s technology is designed for professional restaurant and foodservice kitchens, with a focus on improving commercial frying performance, extending cooking-oil life and helping restaurant operators improve operational efficiency.

The recognition comes from one of Europe’s major restaurant industry innovation events, which brings together restaurant operators, QSR brands, suppliers, technology companies and industry decision-makers. 

A New Approach to Commercial Frying

Deep frying is one of the most important cooking processes across restaurants, quick-service restaurants and foodservice operations, yet cooking oil represents a significant ongoing operating cost for many businesses.

OiLChef was developed to address this challenge by introducing innovative technology directly into the commercial frying process. With today’s fast paced society, commercial deep fryers are tasked with being more efficient and sustainable. OiLChef is the solution that can make this happen. This technology is placed inside deep fryers to slow down oxidation and keep the oil from becoming highly viscous. This enables operators to cook at least twice as much food in their regular oil cycle, creating significant savings.

Reduced frying time, operators say that when using OiLChef in their fryers, they can actually reduce cooking times, and this has a major impact on speed of service. For example a Chicken Wing Chain used to cook their wings in 13 minutes and now they cook in 9 minutes, saving 4 minutes cook time. The food service industry judges determined that the sustainability aspects and efficiency possibilities is the clear winner and an absolute necessity to the industry that is looking for savings during this time of rising food costs, labour and energy.

Archies, the contemporary burger chain sell over one million burgers each year and they have reduced oil purchases by upto 50% each month by adding OiLChef to their fryers. https://www.oilchef.com/category/case-studies/

“Winning the Restaurant Solution of the Year Award is an extraordinary milestone for OiLChef,” said Sean Farry, CEO of OiLChef.

“We developed OiLChef because we saw an opportunity to fundamentally improve one of the most important and costly processes in a commercial kitchen. To have the restaurant industry recognize our technology at an international event such as the Restaurant & Takeaway Innovation Expo is a tremendous validation of what we have been working to achieve.” OiLChef is manufactured in the USA and comes with a 3-year warranty. At this time in the industry operators are looking for cost optimization opportunities without compromising food quality - OiLChef delivers. As OPEX and CAPEX budgets are being made for 2027 this award is great timing to bring awareness to the industry.

“Our objective is much bigger than creating another piece of restaurant equipment,” said Sean Farry. “We want OiLChef to become an important technology platform for restaurants around the world — helping operators improve their frying operations while delivering better value, efficiency and consistency.”