Rubix Foods, a leading culinary and food science-focused provider of flavor and functional ingredients for restaurants and food manufacturers, announced today the grand opening of its highly anticipated new Innovation Center. The 50,000-square-foot “facility of the future” is tailor-made to streamline and accelerate the innovation process on behalf of the company’s customers, which includes many of the world’s most recognized food brands.
“Here we have all the talent, technology and tools to deliver food innovation from research to rollout, all under one roof at unparalleled speed – a fully commercialized formula ready in days rather than months,” said CEO Andy Block.
The Rubix Foods Innovation Center includes:
- State-of-the-art show kitchen for in-person and virtual demonstrations
- Top-of-the-line R&D lab for prototype development and evaluation
- Industry-leading R&D test kitchen with advanced equipment to mimic customers’ operations
- Two cutting-edge pilot plants to simulate real-world manufacturing
- Full-scale sensory panel and dedicated market research and consumer insight facilities
- Extensive food safety and quality assurance capabilities
The company operates as a full-service problem-tackling partner across the gamut of culinary, scientific, marketing and logistics challenges. To underscore this point of difference within the industry, Block explained: “We’re here for collaboration, not credit. The Rubix Foods Innovation Center was built as much for our customers as it was for us. We tell them, ‘this is (y)our Innovation Center’ and we encourage them to visit us to take full advantage of the tools and talent available to them here.”
