Portion PadL Makes Sharing Pizza a Safe, No-Touch Experience

Aspizza restaurants continue to adapt to the “new normal” of the COVID-19 pandemic, making customers feel safe is a paramount concern. Since pizza is a shareable food, some customers will be understandably worried about other hands touching the same areas of the serving plates, risking the spread of the virus. Additionally, if the pizza isn’t cut all the way through, it’s difficult to retrieve a slice from the pie without using one’s hands. The more hands that touch the serving plate and pizza, the greater the likelihood that the coronavirus could be spread. If the consumer doesn’t feel safe about serving themselves from a whole pizza, they might complain to the local health department or, worse, simply never come back.

Fortunately, Portion PadL has the solution: the No HandL Portion PadL with the Touchless Pizza Border. This No Handle Portion PadL acts as a cutting board, portioning guide and an attractive serving plate that’s also the first touchless serving plate in the industry.

To understand why this solution works, there are four common surfaces on which pizzas are cut: a flat-surface cutting board; an aluminum plate; the pizza box; and the Portion PadL. Of those four surfaces, the first three, due to their design, make it very likely, almost necessary, for multiple customers to touch the same surface areas, and their design won’t allow knives to cut through the entire crust of the pizza.

The Portion PadL’s recessed grooves allow both rocker and roller knives to cut all the way through the crust, even the thickest part, from edge to edge. Meanwhile, its finger-wells enable dine-in patrons to avoid touching shared surface areas when serving themselves from a sliced pizza. When moving the No HandL Portion PadL between guests at a table, everyone has their own fingerwell to do so. When the pizza is cut completely through the crust, guests can safely and easily remove the slices with their own spatulas, without using their fingers or utensils to tear off the slice.

While restaurant owners will need to gain the customer’s confidence in all areas as quickly as possible, details for patrons sharing pizza at the same table should not be overlooked. Consumers will also give serious thought as to whether they can safely serve themselves slices of pizza, from the dinner table to their plate. Find out more about how Portion PadL can solve this problem at portionpadl.com or call 330-608-5928