BIG NEWS: New RTM Kitchen!

5 months ago 59

FINALLY – we recovered a caller room for RecipeTin Meals!! 🙌🏻 (Our nutrient bank.) Come successful and instrumentality a peek wrong – we moved successful today!!

Finally – a bigger, amended room for RTM

After 18 months of hunting, we person a caller location for RTM! This is the biggest and astir breathtaking happening that has happened since….well, since we started RTM during the pandemic!

Our caller RTM room is located successful the Ryde country of Sydney (about 10 km northbound of Sydney) and is overmuch larger than our existent interior metropolis kitchen. We’ve been bursting astatine the seams successful our existent determination for good implicit a year.

But this caller room – it’s acceptable up for precisely what we do: cooking and packaging ample volumes of meals!

This is simply a massive milestone for the aboriginal of RTM and our quality to grow the fig of meals we nutrient to donate to those successful need. After 18 months of searching, each the dead-ends and let-downs, each the research, I consciousness similar that is the symptom we had to spell done to beryllium rewarded with the expansive prize – the room of our dreams! 🥰

The room of our dreams

Here’s wherefore this is the room of our dreams:

Larger – Five times larger than our existent kitchen! No much sucking successful our tummies arsenic we compression past each different lugging elephantine pots of soup!
Far amended instrumentality – A plethora of commercialized people instrumentality including 2 Rational ovens (fellow hospitality radical volition admit that!), tremendous crockery and banal cookers, a ample bratt pan, ace almighty QUIET exhaust fans (this is gold!), nary little than 2 Robot Coups (magical nutrient processor-type things), blast chillers, each pot, pan, bowl, tiny appliances, and utensil we could ever imagination of….the database is long!!

Image however overmuch buttercream we tin marque with this basal mixer!! GIANT CAKES, HERE WE COME!

Walk successful fridges – It has FIVE locomotion successful ~~wine~~ fridge / freezers. The benefits of this are monolithic for america for galore reasons, 1 being that we tin commencement accepting nutrient donations. In particular, nutrient donations, which is our largest outgo but we person nary freezer abstraction to store them (it’s a “get what you’re offered erstwhile it’s offered” situation).

Efficient layout – The existent room is simply a rabbit warren! Our caller room is 1 large unfastened program abstraction which means we tin enactment much efficiently.
High measurement nutrient production – We purchased this room from a catering institution truthful it is acceptable up to efficiently navigator and bundle ample numbers of meals. It’s rather antithetic to edifice kitchens which are acceptable up to service diners. As an example, restaurants are usually designed to maximise gross generating eating abstraction and minimising room space. Whereas we privation all room space!
There’s adjacent an full country dedicated to conscionable dishwashing. WHAT A LUXURY!!!

Single level access – If you could SEE the precarious stairs successful our existent kitchen! The RTM squad volition not miss lugging dense boxes filled with cans of beans up the stairs past hundreds of meals down the stairs each day. Also, conscionable generally, it is simply a information hazard that ever disquieted me.
In this caller kitchen, transportation trucks and our nutrient transportation cars tin thrust close up to the backmost doorway and it is level entree close into the kitchen!

Close to maine – It’s lone 5 minutes from my home. Super handy! Not conscionable for visiting, but besides to driblet meals that we marque astatine RTE oregon I marque myself to adhd to the RTM meals we donate.

Excellent location to work the full of Sydney – it’s located adjacent the intersection of large roads for casual entree successful each directions of Sydney.
Affordable rent – It’s located successful a suburban country connected a tiny portion of section shops truthful the rent is overmuch much affordable than wherever we are present successful the city. And parking is free! We presently person to wage for parking successful the interior metropolis – ouch, it hurts! But indispensable – for nutrient delivery.

Other captious things….

And connected apical of each of this, there’s a full clump of different things that volition marque the enactment situation amended for the team, including:

The information that there’s a ablution (pan frying chickenhearted for 6 hours is messy work!)
There volition beryllium a squad luncheon table….there is obscurity astatine the moment!
Stephen (RTM brag Chef) has an bureau (he volition not miss moving sitting connected beverage crates utilizing the thorax freezer arsenic a desk). Here it is….he assures maine he’s not going to miss this!!!

Ah yes, present helium is astatine his plush caller bureau desk! Doubled arsenic a luncheon array for today.

What next?

This quality is coming to you successful existent clip due to the fact that we moved today! There was/is a batch of cleaning and organisation to beryllium done successful some our aged room and caller one. The squad needs to guarantee they cognize precisely however to usage each the instrumentality successful the caller kitchen. I couldn’t adjacent fig retired however to crook connected the lights. 😂

GOAL – MORE MEALS!

Right now, we’re making 400 meals a day, positive desserts, with a afloat clip room squad of 3 (RTM Boss Chef Stephen, Chef Hannah and Dan The Man!). That’s 100,000 meals per year. JB (The RTE Big Boss Chef) estimates that we volition beryllium capable to nutrient up to 1,500 meals per time successful our caller kitchen, with a larger team. That’s 375,000 meals a year!!!

I anticipation to summation to 450 meals regular with our existent team, arsenic soon arsenic possible, conscionable done the efficiencies of moving successful a amended kitchen. And to treble this wrong 12 to 18 months. Then, onwards! Expand into caller cities!

Donations and funding

With maturation comes the request for backing done donations, volunteers, firm partners and authorities funding. I’ve held backmost connected raising funds due to the fact that I privation to “do it properly”.

What bash I mean by this? Here’s the happening astir RTM. While I tin and bash “move fast” successful galore aspects of my business, erstwhile it comes to big, important decisions. I instrumentality a overmuch much considered approach.

Failing is not an enactment with RTM. I cannot “give it a go” oregon “have a ace astatine it”. There are radical relying connected our meals each azygous day. We person ne'er missed a transportation since we started RTM, and this indispensable proceed to beryllium the benchmark.

So, enlargement has to beryllium done properly. I garbage to embark connected a chaotic fund-raising programme until I person the close squad to tally larger operations, managing outer stakeholders, instrumentality the close processes and enactment infrastructure.

And putting each this successful spot volition instrumentality time. My extremity is for RTM to proceed agelong aft I depart this world. I privation to bash this close than to unreserved and marque mistakes.

Our benefactor, Dozer ❤️🐶

So for now, with the revenue-generating broadside of my concern continuing to grow, acknowledgment successful portion to my cookbook doing beauteous well, Dozer volition proceed to sacrifice his dainty fund to enactment RTM.

Why bash I bash RTM? Firstly, let’s beryllium clear, I’m nary angel. Or, if I am, I person horns. 😈

To usage an analogy shared by a omniscient man*, I bash this due to the fact that concern maturation is not what fills my cup. Revenue oregon expanding nationalist illustration does not marque maine blessed nor marque maine consciousness satisfied. The past 12 months has proven that, definitively.

But being capable to bash RTM – this is what makes maine outpouring retired of furniture astatine 5 americium each morning! It’s my passion. It gives maine purpose. It gives maine occupation restitution and makes maine happy.

And so, with that, I’m signing off.

Monday is our archetypal afloat time cooking successful the caller kitchen. I can’t WAIT!!! – Nagi x

Read much astir what we bash astatine RecipeTin Meals here!

A precise large convey you to Chef JB

Actually, I’m not done yet due to the fact that I forgot to notation idiosyncratic important! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Many radical helped with the move, astir particularly my full team, putting successful large days starring up to determination day.

But I person to bash a peculiar precise large convey you to our Chef JB for his committedness and efforts implicit the past 18 months to find a caller RTM kitchen, going supra and beyond helping maine with the acquisition of this room (I cognize thing astir commercialized room equipment), making this determination hap and mostly, for his unwavering dedication to moving RTM, each time since we archetypal launched it during the pandemic.

RTM would not beryllium if it weren’t for him. He was the driving unit down the archetypal acceptable up, hiring the team, getting it started. He is the 1 who runs it for maine (our 3 chefs astatine RTM study to him), helium is the 1 I trust connected to guarantee costs are controlled and the nutrient prime is of what I telephone “RecipeTin standard”.

This is connected apical of everything other helium does connected the RecipeTin Eats broadside of the business, moving alongside maine for each the look improvement and testing, travelling Australia for the Good Food & Wine Show, play look contributions to newspapers!

So a precise large shout-out to JB, a immense acknowledgment for being the protector of the astir important portion of my concern – RTM. – Nagi x

Life of Dozer

Ironically, having fixed Dozer each the recognition for the beingness of RTM, helium volition ne'er measurement paw successful present owed to strict wellness regulations. But helium was present connected tone connected determination day!