Cutting-edge restaurant equipment doesn’t always mean automation.

Sometimes it’s simply finding creative solutions through smart engineering and MacGyver-inspired innovation.

That was certainly true for a handful of products tailored to meet unique operator needs, according organizers of The NAFEM Show, a three-day restaurant equipment event in Orlando, Fla., this week.

NAFEM, or the North American Association of Food Equipment Manufacturers, referred to these technology innovations “game changers” in the industry.

Here are a half dozen of those innovations.

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