Gone are the days when restaurants and foodservice kitchens could get away with cutting corners by purchasing the least expensive equipment available.
In today’s culinary landscape, savvy diners have raised the bar in terms of expecting nothing but the best when it comes to their dining experience.
This means that restaurants and foodservice kitchens need to invest in value rather than skimping on equipment to keep up with the competition and satisfy the ever-growing expectations of their dining customers.
Smart restaurant operators understand that while it may be tempting to cut costs by purchasing cheap equipment, in the long run, this can end up costing more in terms of repairs, replacements, and lost business due to poor quality.
Savvy buyers understand that it’s not just about the price because in many cases, here are utility company rebate programs that reduce those prices.
The payoff often comes in the form of increased efficiency, productivity, and customer satisfaction, which can ultimately lead to higher profits and that Social Media reputation in the communities your restaurant serves.
The Henny Penny difference for many has been the technology and cost savings that come with the brand’s approach to oil filtration. Henny Penny eliminates long oil filtration times.
With its exclusive low oil volume frying technology, operators can save 40% on oil usage without sacrificing food quality.
Recently, Henny Penny introduced an industry game changer with its F5’s express filtration process. In just 3 minutes, this fryer completes the entire filtration process and brings the oil back to set temperature.
That’s at least 25% faster than any other fryer on the market. By properly managing your oil with the F5, a restaurant operator could see the same profit boost as increasing sales by $86,000 each year.
With $4,000 in annual oil savings and a 5% profit margin, the upgrade to a Henny Penny is made simple.
For operators from Philly to Maine, HP Sales Northeast offers a recipe of innovation, excellence and the support you need to grow.
As an award-winning Henny Penny distributor, they pride themselves in delivering top-of-the-line products and exceptional service to their ever-expanding customer base.
HP Sales Northeast is more than just a distributor – they are a family of dedicated professionals who are passionate about what they do.
From a skilled sales team to experienced technicians, each member of their staff plays a crucial role in the continued success of the Northeast and New England’s restaurant and foodservice professionals.
“As we continue to grow and expand our reach, we remain committed to upholding the values that have guided us from the very beginning,” noted Corey Meyers, VP of Sales and Marketing at HP Sales Northeast.
“Our focus on quality, integrity, and customer service sets us apart from the competition and drives us to constantly strive for excellence in all that we do. Whether we are working with a small local restaurant or a large-scale commercial kitchen, our goal is always the same – to provide the best possible products and service to our valued clients.”
Notoriously “engineered to last,” the current Henny Penny product line features open fryers, combi ovens, holding cabinets, bun warmers, and other specific products “often pioneered for a national restaurant concept looking to roll out a solution across a national footprint of hundreds or even thousands of stores. Then a few years later, they’re available on the general market,” Meyers explained.
True to their slogan, Henny Penny takes an innovative approach to customers’ real-world problems.
Meyers cited McDonald’s as an example: “When McDonald’s came to all the manufacturers back in the ‘90s and asked for a low oil-volume fryer, Henny Penny went back to drawing board and completely innovated their product.” These innovations persisted across their product line, cementing Henny Penny as something different in the playing field. And the result of their efforts? “The Henny Penny pressure fryer is like the Q-tip® or BAND-AID® of this product space,” Meyers said.
HP Sales Northeast in many ways parallels the growth of Henny Penny’s national profile. In 1963, the company introduced its legendary pressure fryer. “That product went to market in a unique way,” Meyers explained “because they used the distributor model from the beginning, relying on distributors across the globe.”
Today, some 33 years later, HP Sales Northeast is one of the most successful distributors of Henny Penny products in the world.
The company distributes Henny Penny products and other food service essentials across northern Delaware, eastern Pennsylvania, and “everywhere from New Jersey up to Maine,” Meyers said, as well as the New York City Metro area.
The company’s northeast expansion began in January 2020, with two flagship locations in Hopkinton, MA and Mount Laurel, NJ.
“We are very much a hands-on distributor. Our strategy is to either have our own boots on the ground or to cultivate and deploy a network of service companies that can collaborate to service growing chains/franchises/concepts.” Meyers added.
Regardless of where HP Sales Northeast extends its business efforts, “our bread and butter is finding our own customers and having the backings of Henny Penny behind us,” said Meyers.
“A huge portion of our business comes down to that partnership, legitimized by the quality of Henny Penny products.”
With Henny Penny remaining focused on its’ key line of solutions, HP Sales Northeast has added to its offerings. Their customers’ needs have evolved as the landscape of restaurants and retail have changed.
The company now offers top-tier solutions including Dorégrill rotisseries, AyrKing breading equipment, and Fri-Jado food displays, merchandisers and cases all delivered with a personal touch.
For Meyers, customer-centered distribution means incredibly thorough after-sales support as well as an in-house demo kitchen, where prospective customers can try products for themselves.
When customers test a product, taste the results, and decide to implement it into their own kitchens, the support component “is where we shine and stand apart from other people who just sell food service equipment,” Meyers. said.
“Customers don’t just order the equipment and go off on their own,” he explained.
“Our goal is to deliver the highest quality Henny Penny equipment to our customers, install it, train their employees how to use it, and then offer on-going access to our in-house service technicians with fully stocked vans. Our technicians aren’t just ‘jacks-of-all-trades,’ and that goes for our entire support team,” Meyers continued.
“We’ve worked hard to provide excellent customer service aimed at diminishing service calls by first attempting to solve problems over the phone. Our team walks them through potential solutions to determine whether there’s a simple fix.”
Over time, the company’s service-minded approach has formed lasting, genuine relationships with customers of various specialties and scopes: from single-location pizzerias to some of the biggest players in the food industry.
As HP Sales Northeast looks toward the future, they maintain focus on distributing to retailers in the northeast U.S. and prioritizing user-friendly equipment.
When asked about the inevitability of robotic in the kitchen, he emphasized quality training – “so that people are able to use the right tools to lighten the load and automate the most labor-intensive processes.”
In the years to come, Meyers also anticipates moving into other markets like senior living and schools where combi ovens – “one of the most underutilized products in the U.S.,” he assessed – can have a huge impact on dining quality and efficiency.
Across product and state lines, the HP Sales Northeast mission continues to be distributing top-tier food service equipment: one fryer at a time.
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