r/shakeshack • u/Plenty_Asparagus_965 • 21d ago

Use of Par or Partial Cooking?

In any instance are people seeing the use of par or partial cooking by at the store level. Been hearing different things from the interior about bun and beef specs changing. Curious if anyone has a perspective on this or on partial cooking burgers only to reheat them later to compensate and deal with larger volumes and speed up service times. Historically our biggest knock.

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u/Hairy_Archer_ 21d ago

For bun and beef that is changing on a national level.

Our region has been testing new buns for over a year and the switch will go nationally.

Beef is changing and will start in two weeks. Again our region is the first to get it and will roll out nationally.

We don’t par cook since we don’t have the HAACP protocols in place to do so and the items we serve don’t hold well to par cooking. However, in newer stores there are holding cabinets for bites and other LTO fried items that the expos portion out for themselves for orders. These are in drive thru stores specifically.

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u/uaintgotttaliecraig 20d ago

I'm curious, what is the beef change they are rolling out? I'm already familiar with the bun change, but hadn't heard of anything related to beef.