UNOX India Wins Gold Award at AAHAR 2026

This Combi-oven Brand Showcases Professional Cooking Solutions and New BAKERLUX CLASSIC

New Delhi 2026 UNOX India, the Indian arm of Italian professional oven manufacturer UNOX, emerged as a standout participant at AAHAR 2026 – The International Food & Hospitality Fair, winning the Gold Award for Excellence in Display in the Foreign F&B Equipment category at the exhibition held from March 10 to 14 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.

Throughout the exhibition at Hall 11, the brand attracted significant attention from industry professionals with a booth designed to highlight the versatility and efficiency of modern professional cooking technologies. One section of the booth featured live demonstrations showing how combi ovens can be used to prepare a wide variety of dishes—from traditional Indian staples such as poha and idli to global favourites including pizzas, pastas, and kebabs. Another section recreated a café environment, where speed ovens were demonstrated in a quick-service setup.

Visitors experienced the capabilities of UNOX’s CHEFTOP-X™ and BAKERTOP-X™ commercial combi ovens, which leverage advanced AI technology to optimize cooking precision, along with other innovations such as EVEREO®, the hot fridge designed to preserve food at service temperature. The display also featured high-speed ovens including SPEED-X™, SPEED.Compact™ ECO, and SPEED.Pro™, built to enhance speed, consistency, and efficiency in modern food service operations.

A major highlight at the UNOX booth was the debut of the BAKERLUX CLASSIC™ convection oven series—a strategic restyling that brings the legacy of the LINEMISS™ and LINEMICRO™ models into the modern era. By introducing a refreshed design and unified branding, UNOX has updated these ranges to align perfectly with the aesthetic and identity of the BAKERLUX SHOP.Pro™ ecosystem. Designed for cafes, bakeries, and convenience stores, this range offers reliable and consistent baking performance that professionals have trusted for years.

Commenting on the achievement, Vikram Goel, Regional Director – UNOX India & South East Asia, said: “Securing the Gold Award for Excellence in Display at AAHAR 2026 is a significant milestone for us. More than just a trophy, this recognition validates our efforts to bring world-class innovation to the Indian food service sector. The incredible footfall and engagement at our booth prove that there is a growing preference for smart, efficient, and performance-driven solutions in modern professional kitchens.”

With its award-winning presence at AAHAR 2026, UNOX India reaffirmed its commitment to bringing innovative cooking technologies to the forefront of the foodservice industry. The company continues to engage with chefs and food service operators to develop solutions that meet the practical demands of modern professional kitchens.

Sapaad Launches Ask Vantage-India’s First AI Interactive Tool for the F&B sector at AAHAR 2026

New Delhi, March 2026: Sapaad, a bootstrapped, Make-in-India Unified Commerce platform powering restaurant operations globally, today announced the launch of Ask Vantage, India’s first AI-powered conversational intelligence system at Aahar 2026 jointly organised by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Government of India, and the India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) at Bharat Mandapam. 

The Ask Vantage AI platform is designed to fill one of the foodservice industry’s most expensive operational gaps as the industry is currently grappling with 3-4% of potential revenue loss annually due to preventable operational inefficiencies including food cost drift, inventory leakage, labour misallocation, and delayed corrective actions. In a market already worth INR 6,96,072 crore, this translates to INR 20,000–25,000 crore in annual margin leakage across the sector.

The company will showcase Ask Vantage live at AAHAR 2026, being held from 10–14 March 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. Built directly into Sapaad’s Unified Commerce platform, Ask Vantage allows operators to ask natural-language questions and receive real-time operational insights along with recommended corrective actions. The system continuously analyses live signals across POS transactions, inventory movement, recipes, procurement, labour schedules and delivery channels, enabling managers to intervene during operations rather than after financial reports are generated.

Speaking on the launch, Vishnu Vardhan Madabhushi, Founder & CEO, Sapaad, said: “Ask Vantage is a first-of-its-kind innovation for the foodservice industry, and we are proud to launch it at AAHAR today. Restaurants now generate enormous volumes of operational data, yet decision-making often lags because teams still spend too much time interpreting reports instead of acting on insights. In a multi-outlet business, even a 1% drift in food cost or a 2% variance in labour can reduce monthly EBITDA by 2-4% if not corrected quickly. Ask Vantage changes this dynamic by transforming operational signals into real-time, actionable decisions. Within weeks of deployment, we are already witnessing a 1-3% improvement in food cost control and 2-5% optimisation in labour.”

Ask Vantage specifically targets margin leakage caused by delayed operational response rather than strategic failure. Even small efficiency improvements compound significantly. For instance, a 2% EBITDA improvement for a restaurant brand generating INR 100 crore in annual revenue can deliver approximately INR 2 crore in incremental profit, while also improving forecast accuracy, reducing variance risk and strengthening operational discipline across locations.

Sapaad’s unified platform addresses this challenge by bringing transactions, operations, payments and analytics into a single source of truth, enabling faster decisions and stronger operational control across outlets. Yet despite the sector’s scale and growth, operational decision-making across much of the industry remains slow and fragmented. 

Sapaad invites restaurant founders, finance leaders, consultants, hospitality professionals and operations heads to experience Ask Vantage live at AAHAR 2026 in Hall 14, First Floor, Booth 14F-12-D, where real operational scenarios-from billing to backend control and from data to decisions, will be demonstrated in real time. Demonstrations can also be scheduled at https://www.sapaad.com/schedule-a-demo/.

About Sapaad

Sapaad is a Unified Commerce platform built to power multi-channel restaurant operations across dine-in, takeaway, delivery and back-office workflows. By integrating POS, inventory, kitchen operations, delivery management and analytics into a single cloud-native system, Sapaad enables restaurant brands to operate with greater speed, control and profitability across multiple outlets and channels.

With over a decade of global deployments, the company is expanding in India to support the country’s rapidly growing organised foodservice sector including quick service chains, cafés, cloud kitchens and multi-outlet restaurant brands seeking scalable, enterprise-grade digital infrastructure.