In the world of mass meal manufacturing, ensuring high-quality output while meeting the diverse needs of our customers can be a challenging task. At snapfresh, we’ve honed our approach to high-volume meal production by focusing on several core principles and strategies.

We’re proud to say that our commitment extends beyond solely quality and reliability to encompass safety, consistency, traceability and more.

Here, we look at how we have mastered the art of mass meal manufacturing.

Our core approach

Our approach to meal manufacturing is guided by several key principles:

• Safety: Firstly, ensuring food safety is paramount to us. We adhere to stringent food safety protocols to protect our consumers and maintain the integrity of our products.

• Consistency: Consistency in taste and quality is achieved through strict adherence to recipes and production plans, which we monitor closely and adjust as needed.

• Traceability: From the moment raw ingredients arrive at our facility until the finished meals are dispatched, every step is tracked for full traceability.

• Technical expertise: Our technical know-how ensures that every aspect of the production process is executed with precision, from ingredient sourcing to final packaging.

• Variety and menu information: We cater to a wide range of dietary needs and preferences, providing detailed menu and nutritional information to our clients.

• Quality assurance: We have rigorous quality assurance processes in place to ensure that every meal meets our high standards before it reaches our customers.

• Storage and responsiveness: We maintain optimal storage conditions and are responsive to customer and market requests to adapt our products as needed.

Ensuring consistency and quality

To maintain consistency and quality across every batch, our snapfresh team adheres closely to our customer specifications, including dietary and flavour profiles.

Here’s how we ensure that each meal meets our standards:

• Specification adherence: Our meals are produced based on detailed specifications and recipes tailored to our customers’ requests.

• Daily taste panels: Each meal is taste-tested daily to ensure it meets the brief and maintains the expected quality.

• Operations and R&D coordination: Our Operations and R&D teams work together to follow production plans and recipes precisely, ensuring consistency in every batch.

• Production: We follow a meticulously planned and executed production process. All production runs are planned into production, goods are received and checked for quality parameters, the product is batched for cooking and cooked in individual work orders for full traceability.

• Critical control points: All critical control points are recorded to ensure food safety and product quality meets specifications.

• Assembly and shipping: Meals are assembled, packed and shipped according to the customer, based on their logistics requirements.

Quality control

Our quality control measures are comprehensive. They include routine checks, such as HACCP temperature monitoring, in-line weight checks, metal detection, sauce thickness testing and sensory evaluations.

They also include verification checks, which are performed by Quality Assurance teams, including sensory evaluations, HACCP compliance, labelling assessments and microbial testing.

Our quality control steps are extensive, and critical to our operation. We believe they help us stand apart.

Maintaining a steady supply chain

For any mass-meal manufacturer, maintaining a steady supply chain is not just a necessity, but a cornerstone of our operational success and our customers’ satisfaction. The complexities of managing high-volume production require a proactive approach to avoid any potential disruptions.

For us, building and nurturing strong relationships with our suppliers is vital. By fostering long-term relationships with reliable and trusted suppliers, we ensure that we deliver for our customers.

We’re proud to say that with a steady and reliable supply chain, we can consistently meet our customers’ expectations and deliver high-quality meals on time.

To learn more about our products, visit our product page.