Archie’s ‘in the pink’ with Oil Chef

1 / 2
Archie’s ‘in the pink’ with Oil Chef
Caitlyn Gregory

Oil Chef

Premium Supplier 28th March 2025
Caitlyn Gregory

Oil Chef

Premium Supplier Follow

Archie’s ‘in the pink’ with Oil Chef

Creating world famous shakes, waffles and burgers, the Archie’s business of star studded pink venues attributes its success to its vibrant décor, extravagant menu and celebrity hot spot status, and equally, the quality of the food. Founded in Manchester over 14 years ago, the Archie’s business has gone from strength to strength and the Trafford Palazzo store is the latest opening and the 10th store across the Northwest and Midlands.


Nuno Lopes is the Operations Director for Archies, and he has overseen the launch of the new Trafford Palazzo opening,

“This is the second Archie’s store in the Trafford Centre, in the new Trafford Palazzo which is a leisure focused complex and is a perfect location for our business. At Archie’s we want to serve the best burgers, shakes and waffles in the country so everything we do is focused on our food quality.”


Each Archie’s store has between five and seven fryers in the kitchen area and each fryer holds around 30 litres of oil. As a business the consumption of oil is substantial and in the chicken fryers, the oil has historically been changed daily.


As Nuno states, the business uses a lot of oil, and they are always on the lookout for innovation to drive improvements. Visiting an exhibition in London, Nuno came across the OiLChef stand and saw the claims being made.

“To be honest, I was sceptical of the claims. Could this device really improve our food quality and save money on oil usage? I had a chat with Sean, OiLChef CEO and he suggested we do a trial. So, for one month we compared a fryer with OiLChef Vs one without the device and we monitored food quality and oil condition. After that trial, we couldn’t believe it. Food quality was excellent, and we reduced oil consumption by around 50%. We could cook at lower temperatures (around 10 degrees lower) and we reduced our cooking times by a couple of minutes per item.”


Following the trial, Archie’s rolled out the OiLChef devices to its stores and it now has around fifty across the entire business.


As Nuno concludes,

“We used to change the oil in our chicken fryers every day, now it’s twice a week and that’s a massive saving in oil, and saves us thousands of pounds a year; so, yeah, I’m really glad I went to that exhibition and met Sean!

Method

comments

There are no comments yet.

You could be commenting on this if you had an account! Click here to sign up.
In these challenging times…

The Staff Canteen team are taking a different approach to keeping our website independent and delivering content free from commercial influence. Our Editorial team have a critical role to play in informing and supporting our audience in a balanced way. We would never put up a paywall  – The Staff Canteen is open to all and we want to keep bringing you the content you want; more from younger chefs, more on mental health, more tips and industry knowledge, more recipes and more videos. We need your support right now, more than ever, to keep The Staff Canteen active. Without your financial contributions this would not be possible.

Over the last 16 years, The Staff Canteen has built what has become the go-to platform for chefs and hospitality professionals. As members and visitors, your daily support has made The Staff Canteen what it is today. Our features and videos from the world’s biggest name chefs are something we are proud of. We have over 560,000 followers across Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube and other social channels, each connecting with chefs across the world. Our editorial and social media team are creating and delivering engaging content every day, to support you and the whole sector - we want to do more for you.

A single coffee is more than £2, a beer is £4.50 and a large glass of wine can be £6 or more.

Support The Staff Canteen from as little as £1 today. Thank you.

Create post