The diverse menu on offer at Frankie’s Food Factory has taken inspiration from flavours all around the world. From Italy to Middle East and Spain to Mexico just to name a few. The gourmet options on offer will take your tastebuds on a journey around the globe. There are also plenty of light and healthy choices on the menu along with vegan friendly options. There is even a scrumptious kid’s menu to keep the little tummies happy.

Electrolux Professional had the pleasure of working with Frankie’s Food Factory on the recent install of the award winning SkyLine Oven. The new SkyLine Combi Oven ensures uniform heat distribution and constant temperature in the cooking chamber that guarantees flawless cooking results.

With over 40 years of excellence in Combi Ovens, the SkyLine combi range comes with smart technology and human-centered design to deliver outstanding performance, reduced running costs and better ergonomics and usability. Not to mention greener and more efficient resulting in savings on water, energy and chemicals.

The new SkyLine combi is at the heart of Frankie’s Food Factory, cooking to order and on demand to keep customers satisfied and returning.

Lucia was a brilliant cook and the word spread quick amongst the Italian community. A side business was started making fresh pasta and sauces from their humble home kitchen to meet the growing demands for authentic Italian cooking. This side business eventually grew and by 1964, the Fuscaldo family opened their first fresh pasta retail shop in Melbourne.

Today almost 60 years later, the next generation of the Fuscaldo family are keeping that tradition alive, managing their ever growing portfolio of food business with passion and innovation.

Café Gigi is the latest Fuscaldo eatery, centrally located at the iconic Circular Quay which is always a bustling hub for tourists as well as locals. The newly opened Café boasts a backdrop of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, with all-day barista style coffees, freshly baked pastries. Offering a scrumptious breakfast menu from 7am-11am and a lunch menu from 11am till late.

You can order a variety of food and drinks from Nonna’s Bread (which is Banana Bread served with Ricotta cream) for breakfast to a cold beer with Fish Tacos or classic Italian favourites paired with cocktails over lunch.

Inside Café Gigi is an Electrolux Professional cooking line up comprising of 4 powerful induction burners, a flat grill, and a salamander. The kitchen design is super compact in footprint but high in performance and used daily to serve up the fresh and mouth-watering menu.

The Fuscaldo family have become well known for Portobello Caffe, Vizio Caffé e Cucina and Ragu just to name a few and hope to extend that success to Café Gigi.

Jordan Dupont, who is the creator of the brand, lived in Vietnam from 2010 to 2015, and says that one of his favorite meals during his stay in Vietnam was chicken wings. However, the wings he ate there weren’t exactly as crunchy as he wanted, and Koreans were doing it much better. Due to his fondness for palate and his passion for crispy chicken, Mr. Jordan desired to open a restaurant to serve a more crunchy version of the flavor he experienced in Korea when he returned to Turkey. Keeping its focus on the wings, he created the Coni&Co brand by adding crispy fillets and burgers to the recipes. Thus, the first chicken gourmet restaurant was born in Turkey.

“Crispy chicken is an ‘extremely chic’ meal all around the world. However, in order to consume this in the most accurate way, it must be consumed as soon as possible after taking it out of the fryer. Preparations must be “made-to-order”, that is, they must be made on order, because after the product is cooked, the rate of crispiness and juiciness decreases every second. In fact, when done using the right equipment with the right operations; product almost acquires a Michelin Star balance with the rate of its crispiness, juiciness and softness.”

The preparation process of the crispy chicken is very important. At first, they marinate the chicken, then perform the coating process consisting of flouring and spices. They cook the wing twice and chill in the Electrolux Professional Blast Chiller. And they make the coating sauce, the bread, everything themselves, they only buy the chicken from the outside.

“When opening the second branch, we decided to work with Electrolux Professional brand, which is The OnE solution partner which offers complete solutions to perform all the kitchen and service with a single brand. It was very important for us that the heat recovery feature of the Fryers were high as a Kitchen equipment. That’s why it was our primary preference to choose Electrolux Professional brand.”

“In terms of Beverage equipment, we decided to work with the Electrolux Professional brand which has bought Unic brand, the world’s best Espresso Machine brand, because of the ‘unique’ artisanal spirit of its coffee – which we believe will provide us the best results; and so, we bought an espresso machine, an espresso grinder, and in addition, a soft ice cream dispenser. Electrolux Professional Fryers, Blast Chiller, Espresso Machine and Soft Ice Cream Dispenser make our lives more easier during our busiest days and get the fastest and highest quality results in the products. When our customers come to our place to relax and sip their coffee for treating themselves after eating their meals, it is important that espresso machines perform with high performance and the same consistent results in the process of coffee preparation. On-demand coffee grinder is easy to use and provides uniform grinding each time. The soft ice cream dispenser, which we use to make soft ice cream, also brings a variety to our menu options.”

Coni&Co is a hobby of the brand creator, which has been driven by pleasure and nurtured with confident steps. At Coni&Co, all products are prepared by their own hands every day for the purpose of bringing happiness to guests who come to the place and request takeaways by offering the service in the fastest and in a quality way.

Electrolux Professional is a prospective investment for us!

Devrim Uyguner – Coni&Co Restaurant Manager

“Electrolux Professional is the world’s largest brand for us, offering complete solutions for those who want to do their job much more professionally. With the planned conveniences in the production of devices, we accelerate the work we do in a unit of time. With the support of the Authorized Service Partner, our infrastructure becomes even stronger. Electrolux Professional is a prospective investment for us.”

List of installed equipment:

Fryer HP
Blast Chiller
Undercounter Refrigerated Table
Aura Espresso Machine
On-demand Coffee Grinder, Flat 75mm
Soft Ice Cream Dispenser

The concept of ” Sandwich Upstairs ” is “sandwiches, like picture frames”. Considering sandwiches as a picture frame in art, they propose to easily carry fancy food and eat it wherever you want. The ingredients of the sandwich are luxuriously sandwiched between breads, which is a hand-crafted dish that is like served in an authentic restaurant.

You can always choose a favorite hot sandwich between 8 to 10 kinds at the store. About 4 of their flavor change from day to day.

Since opening in March, ” Sandwich Upstairs ” have been featured in a lot of media and have become so popular that there are long lines of the customers on weekends. They sell 100 hot sandwiches a day on weekdays and 300 a day on weekends, so it is important to be quick to serve customers without waiting while paying attention to quality. There is no wonder they need a perfect cooking equipment which has the ability to cook more quickly, tasty and the simplicity that staff can operate without mistakes, no matter how busy the peak hours.

Electrolux Professional’s SpeeDelight is installed right inside the order counter. Customer can see the sandwiches which they just ordered are being cooked in front of them.
When the cooking with SpeeDelight is finished and the top cover is automatically raised, customers cheer. This is a popular moment for customers with children.

“There is absolutely huge difference in taste after cooking with SpeeDelight! Thanks to this one and only equipment, the bread and ingredients are combined into one perfect dish for the first time.” Mr. Yoshimura, the store manager, said.

Mr. Yoshimura is thinking about adding other a la carte snacks on their menu in a future. “SpeeDelight seems to be able to cook a variety of dishes, so I would like to serve delicious dishes that customers can enjoy in addition to hot sandwiches.”

Mr. Yoshimura – the store manager, Sandwich Upstairs

“There is absolutely huge difference in taste after cooking with SpeeDelight! Thanks to this one and only equipment, the bread and ingredients are combined into one perfect dish for the first time.”

List of installed equipment:

SpeeDelight

Le Monde, originally the winery of Villa Giustinian in Portobuffolè Italy, an ancient village, which in early 997 was already documented as a castle and river port of the Venetian Republic, is the only rural house still operational on the property of the Villa.