Company Plans Expansion At Manufacturing Facility In Stratford

STRATFORD, CT — Stratford-based Kitchen Brains is expanding its manufacturing facility on Honeyspot Road, the company recently announced.

Kitchen Brains, a designer and manufacturer of “fully integrated smart cooking” computers, electronic controls and software solutions for commercial foodservice operations, said it is expanding its U.S. manufacturing capabilities to “meet the growing demand for high quality, onshore production.”

Kitchen Brains CEO Christian Koether said that “increased interest in American-made products, from both our OEM and retail customers, is the driving force behind the expansion of our manufacturing facility,” according to a news release on the company’s website.

Reconfiguration of the manufacturing floor is “already underway and additional equipment is expected to be installed by the end of the year,” according to the news release.

Kitchen Brains expects the expansion to increase production capacity by more than 40 percent, allowing the company to “better serve current customers and provide additional services to new customers, including contract manufacturing.”

In addition to the expansion, the company has implemented several initiatives, including the “realignment of equipment to reduce excessive movement between functional spaces, the installation of monitors throughout the manufacturing facility to share job tracking and key data with employees, and the reconfiguration of the shipping and receiving areas to process orders faster,” the news release states. “These changes have already begun to increase efficiency, reduce waste and, most importantly, ensure quality.”

“We anticipate that demand for American-made products will grow even faster during the years ahead and, as an industry leader, we will continually invest in our business to provide our customers with the best products and service imaginable,” Koether said.

Read more about Kitchen Brains at its website here.