SHREVEPORT, La. – Frymaster, LLC’s new gas Protector® fryer is the latest addition to the company’s efforts to help its foodservice customers find their optimal healthy frying solution. The gas Protector joins the electric model that was introduced last year.

 “The award-winning Protector  -- now in gas and electric – is another step toward Frymaster’s goal of helping operators serve the best-tasting and most healthful fried foods possible,” said Brenda Fried, vice president of marketing for Frymaster, an Enodis  company.  “It’s a new, integral part of our industry-leading Fit Frying program, which helps operators prepare the best fried options possible through equipment and technology solutions, and education.”
The Fit Frying program is built on the premise that more healthful frying results by:

• Choosing the right oil to increase healthy menu offerings, while reducing use of trans fat-containing partially hydrogenated oils. 
• Choosing the right fryer to cook the types of foods on your menu, to produce higher-quality and more healthful food and to extend oil life.
• Following the right cooking process to minimize by-products produced during frying that degrade oil quality and reduce oil life.
• Establishing the right maintenance program to extend oil and equipment life, save money and ensure the quality of fried foods.

“It’s all about helping operators capitalize on the popularity and maximize the potential of fried foods on their menus,” says Fried.  “If we’ve helped our customers please their guests while frying in the healthiest way possible, then we’ve accomplished our goal.”

The Protector earned a coveted 2008 Kitchen Innovations™ (KI) award from the National Restaurant Association earlier this year. ,  The Electric Foodservice Council awarded the Protector its “Innovation of the Year” award in November 2007, and, most recently, the gas Protector received the Gas Foodservice Equipment Network’s (GFEN) Blue Flame award for foodservice product of the year.
Frymaster’s Fit Frying website (www.fitfrying.com) provides a broad range of information designed to help operators identify their fit frying solution, and to keep abreast of frying-related news as well as regulatory developments and best practices from across the country.

“We want to be the commercial foodservice industry’s go-to partner for fit frying solutions, for the better health of our customers and their customers over the long term,” said Fried.

About Frymaster and Enodis
Frymaster, an Enodis company, is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of commercial fryers for the foodservice industry.  For more than 70 years, Frymaster has been providing premium equipment and world class service to operators.  Frymaster’s technological innovation is driven by our Customer at The Core™ philosophy, continually pushing equipment performance to higher levels to achieve operating efficiencies, produce high quality, great-tasting foods and return outstanding value to operators.  To learn more about Frymaster, visit www.frymaster.com or call (800) 221-4583.

Enodis plc is a worldwide company focused on the design, manufacture and supply of food and beverage equipment.  Through its two operating groups, Global Food Service Equipment and Food Retail Equipment, it has manufacturing facilities in North America, the UK, Western Europe and Asia and a large portfolio of premium brands including Cleveland™, Convotherm®, Delfield®, Frymaster®, Garland®, Ice-O-Matic®, Jackson™, Kysor/Warren®, Kysor Panel Systems, Lincoln™, Merco®, Merrychef®,  Savory®, Scotsman® and Scotsman® Beverage Systems.