Meet the Middleby Sizzlin’ Seven
KI Award Recipients

Middleby Brands are showcasing the latest in innovation at the 2025 National Restaurant Show. A panel of judges with deep industry knowledge selected seven Middleby innovations to receive the prestigious 2025 Kitchen Innovations Award. See us in action at the KI Pavilion at the Show.

Middleby was recognized throughout its many product categories and well-known brands for innovation in cooking, warming, IoT and milk and beverage dispense.

The Middleby Honorees are:

The Carter-Hoffmann CHrisper Station expertly holds crispy foods, maintaining high product quality twice as long as standard holding times. Engineered with an advanced heat duct system, hot convection air and radiant heat airflow, the unit not only extends holding times but improves kitchen workflow efficiency.

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The Doyon Dual Fuel Gravity Charcoal Oven goes “hybrid” by generating 60% of heat with charcoal and 40% from electric heating elements. Providing a rich, authentic barbecue-smoke flavor, the oven offers a broad temperature range from 180°F to 450°F, for roasting, smoking, finishing and hot holding.

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The FizzBot™, developed by the Yum! Automation team in RED INNOVATION LABS BY YUM!™ is partnered with Middleby. The compact unit offers automated, POS-integrated beverage dispensing. Fountain drink production is just 20 seconds, providing a completed drink every 8 seconds during continuous production or up to 450/hour.

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The Marco Beverage Systems MilkPal delivers hot milk, cold milk, hot foam or cold foam, with desired volume and consistency at the tap of a user-friendly touchscreen. Cutting drink prep time by 20%, the innovation reduces milk waste to virtually none through precise portioning.

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The Middleby Marshall LongWave Infrared Oven features new top and bottom infrared emitters that more evenly distribute heat and boost the temperature limit by 33 percent, and, as a result, meats sear and cook evenly in one pass. Controls include 15 presets for time and temperature.

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The Newton CFV Gravity Beverage Fountain System provides substantial real-time data to enhance drink menu optimization, prevent beverage sellouts and minimize labor. With a control platform that utilizes IoT, immediate sales are reported, and metrics are used to dynamically reprioritize drink brand icons for customers.

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OilSmart by Open Kitchen gives operators real-time data to ensure equipment uptime, improve product quality and control oil consumption. As part of the Open Kitchen solution, no manual input of data is required, everything is pulled from the fryer controller and oil tank systems.

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