A combination of mechanization and technological innovation is a core feature that allows Akshaya Patra to carry out large-scale cooking operations on a daily basis. To prepare over 1.3 million meals every day, Akshaya Patra’s centralized kitchens are efficiently managed and engineered to provide quality and quantity. These industrial-sized kitchens have the capacity to cook between 50,000 to 150,000 healthy and hygienic meals.
To reduce the risk of contamination, the three-tier kitchens are equipped with a gravity-flow mechanism to prepare meals. Chopping and cleaning is done on the second floor, cooking on the first and packaging on the ground floor. The food passes from each floor through steel ducts. It is cooked at a temperature of up to 93°C to keep it free from micro-organisms.
