Umara Central Kitchen Project in Indonesia

Project Name - Umara Central Kitchen Project in Indonesia

City - Indonesia

Project Overview

Umara is a one-stop catering and banquet solutions provider, serving weddings, banquets, high-end institutions, presidential facilities, remote oil & gas and mining sites, as well as boxed meals, snack stations, gift baskets, and frozen food operations.Thank you to the Umara team for choosing INEO as your project partner.

With an existing operation of 4 restaurants, 3 central kitchens, 1 factory canteen, and 1 frozen food business, Umara is now planning a new 5,000 sqm building integrating restaurant operations, a central kitchen, banquet production, and a staff cafeteria. The new central kitchen area is approximately 1,600 sqm and is intended to support factories, offices, and premium clients with high-quality meals and refined packaging.

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Project Details

As one of China’s Top 3 engineering companies in the commercial kitchen industry. We have extensive experience in commercial kitchen equipment, commercial kitchen design, central kitchen projects, institutional cafeteria construction, and banquet catering solutions.Instead of simply quoting from the chef’s original Excel equipment list, we start from the very first step of the design process. Based on actual operating headcount, meal volume, banquet peak demand, boxed meal production, frozen food processing, packaging standards, and opening timeline, we optimize the equipment mix and kitchen workflow to create a more practical and durable solution.

• High quality equipment with durable performance
• Low maintenance and lower long-term operating risk
• Competitive pricing with better cost control
• Optimized kitchen design optimization and efficient kitchen workflow
• Reliable project management for 2026 opening target
• One-stop kitchen solution from design, equipment planning, procurement, cold chain, packaging, ventilation, and delivery

After the client shared the equipment list and budget expectations with us, our team reviewed the operational reality of the business and restructured the proposal around production flow, capacity planning, food safety, maintainability, and delivery schedule.For high-frequency and high-load stations, we recommend durable and low-maintenance equipment. For secondary stations, we optimize the selection with better value-for-money options. This approach helps Umara achieve the right balance between quality, maintenance cost, and project budget, while building a scalable platform for future expansion, including the next 3-year plan of 1 additional central kitchen and 1 factory canteen.

Central Kitchen Functional Zones

• Receiving & Inspection Area – For receiving, weighing, quality check, temporary holding, and pre-storage management of raw materials.
• Dry Storage Area – For sorted storage of dry ingredients, seasonings, packaging materials, and rotating supplies.
• Cold & Frozen Storage Area – For cold chain storage and rotation of fresh produce, semi-finished products, finished items, and frozen foods.
• Vegetable Prepping Area – For washing, peeling, cutting, draining, and initial processing of vegetables.
• Meat & Seafood Prepping Area – For cutting, grinding, sawing, marinating, and low-temperature processing of meat and seafood.
• Main Cooking Area – To meet the production needs of bulk cooking, banquet hot meals, standardized dishes, and diverse menus.
• Rice & Meal Box Production Area – For standardized meal portioning, meal box assembly, sealing, coding, and pre-dispatch handling.
• Banquet Support Area – For large-scale banquet plating, hot holding, transportation, and on-site support.
• Cold Dish & Premium Packaging Area – For cold platters, salads, gift basket packing, and high-end product packaging.
• Frozen Food Processing Area – For rapid chilling, quick-freezing, vacuum packing, and temporary frozen storage of cooked products.
• Washing & Sanitizing Area – For cleaning and sanitizing tableware, pots, utensils, and totes, as well as sanitation management.
• Staff Canteen / Meal Service Area – For staff dining support, serving line configuration, and tray return.

Umara is a one-stop catering and banquet solutions provider, serving weddings, banquets, high-end institutions.

Key Equipment List

• Cold storage systems (chill rooms, freezer rooms, cold chain rotation equipment)
• Core hot kitchen equipment: combi ovens, steamers, ranges, wok stations, bratt pans, tilting kettles
• Rice production and meal box sealing systems
• Blast chillers, blast freezers, vacuum packers, and supporting frozen food processing equipment
• Banquet hot-holding, plating, transportation, and on-site support equipment
• Dishwashers, pot washers, and sanitizing systems
• MEP support systems: exhaust hoods, fresh air, gas supply, water supply & drainage, grease traps
• Heavy-duty stainless steel worktables, shelving units, trolleys, and auxiliary workstations

The value of this project goes beyond a one-time equipment purchase; it lies in building a sustainable central kitchen platform for Umara. Through scientific process design, appropriate equipment configuration, stable system integration, and controlled delivery management, we will help the client establish a more efficient, safer, and brand-enhancing food production system for their new facility. This will not only meet the current catering needs for the factory, offices, high-end banquets, and packaged products, but also lay a standardized foundation for future central kitchen and factory canteen projects over the next three years. Leveraging our proven project experience, professional kitchen engineering capabilities, and systematic solutions, we look forward to working closely with the client to ensure the successful completion of this project, supporting Umara in opening as scheduled in 2026, and creating a benchmark central kitchen project that delivers efficiency, quality, stability, and scalability.

For a central kitchen project, the long-term efficiency and maintenance costs are often determined not by the price of any single piece of equipment, but by the stability of core systems, compatibility between components, and whether the overall process flow is rationally designed.This project is not only about supplying equipment. It is about building a scalable, food-safe, and operationally efficient central kitchen platform for Umara. With our experience in commercial kitchen equipment, banquet solutions, institutional kitchen equipment, and one-stop product sourcing, we are confident in helping Umara deliver a durable, cost-effective, and high-performance facility on schedule.

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