Wrapmaster® Joins the Grits & Eggs Breakfast Community

In Atlanta, there is a new breakfast community growing, founded by Harlem born, entrepreneur and philanthropist Michael Glover, Joseph Ogbogu, Anthony Omoyele and award-winning Executive Chef, Rasul York. Grits & Eggs Breakfast Kitchen opened in November 2021, during the pandemic and through word of mouth, the casual-dining restaurant has quickly become the hot ticket for those wanting to experience honest, high-quality food made with love.

Today, the business partners are planning four more restaurant openings across the city in quick succession - all to keep up with demand for the kitchen’s now famous grits*. As part of the expansion, Wrapmaster® ultimate chef wrap systems are being rolled out across all sites to help keep operations runninWith 42 years in the food business, Michael Glover knows a thing or two about managing restaurants. Cutting his teeth sweeping floors at fast food restaurants, Michael worked his way up to become Vice-President of Operations overseeing forty restaurants. A chance meeting with Rasul York saw the perfect partnership form, as he brought with him twenty years of certified executive chef experience, as well as being a Chef Lecturer in Culinary Arts at Corden Bleu Cookery School. Together, along with General Manager, Michele Mollon the dream team are committed to creating a unique dining experience that appeals to all and supports their community.

Michael explains:

“We are not a brunch restaurant. We are a breakfast restaurant that’s creating a real niche within the market. You’re going to find people here that are bringing their mother to breakfast and the mothers bringing their mothers to breakfast and they bring their kids. […] You might find four generations having breakfast. It can be like a family affair – we’ve created an atmosphere where you can bring your parents and enjoy breakfast in the morning.”

“[Grits] is an ambiance, a vibe” Chef Rasul adds. “We have sixties and seventies music; you’re greeted with a smile and made to feel like you’re home. We care about what we do here. The food is untraditional and unorthodox because I want to give you something different to what you normally get, that you just can’t make at home. You might cook it at home, but you’ll never cook it my way.”

And it is Chef Rasul’s cooking which is making Grits & Eggs a social media sensation with diners queuing for up to three hours for a table on the weekend. In the kitchen, the team are fully trained by Rasul as part of an expanding Culinary Academy, with the commitment to serving the best food.

“We care about each dish that goes out the kitchen.” explains Rasul. “For the chicken, I use my aunt’s favorite recipe, which was also my grandmother’s favorite recipe. It’s made with love, and you can taste that. We want you to look at the plate and it brings a smile, and then make the stomach smile at the end of the day.”

“Rasul told me if we’re going to have grits and eggs for a [restaurant] name, we have to have some of the best grits in the business” Michael adds, “and that’s what we’re doing here.”

The restaurants source fresh and local, and everything is made from scratch. Diners can sample Rasul’s famous hand fried Chicken & Honey-Biscuit Sandwich, French Toast with Chicken Sausage, Jerk Caribbean Shrimp, or award-winning Fried Catfish & Grits from the authentic all-day dining breakfast menu.

This commitment to scratch-made dishes means the Grits & Eggs team starts prepping the fresh ingredients at 5am every morning. After seeing a Wrapmaster® demo, Rasul replaced the old cardboard cutter boxes being used with a mix of Wrapmaster® 3000, Wrapmaster® 4500 and Wrapmaster® Duo dispensers front and back-of-house to support the service.

“We have the Wrapmaster® 3000 for the bar where we have lemons, limes and garnishes that need wrapping up at the end of the day, the 4500 is good when there’s a lot of prepping, and I use the Duo when I’m doing a lot of oven work and lining trays.”

“Wrapmaster® is one of the best things that’s been brought to me. At the time, I remember I had a brand-new cutter box that got wet and was tied in saran wrap. [Wrapmaster®] speeds up my time, now I’m not looking for the edge of the film anymore more. I don’t have to keep rolling it. I don’t have to worry about the 90,000 cuts you get when you’re trying to roll. Somebody always cuts a finger because of the metal on the side of the [cutter] box, or you’ve got to tie the box because it gets damaged. Wrapmaster® speeds up my process, and I’m saving 15-20% on the wrap that I use because I’m not wasting as much.”

And Michael agrees;

“We get our chefs and our kitchen the best tools necessary to be successful in this business. That’s why Wrapmaster® comes into it. You have a piece of equipment that preserves product, helps us save costs and supports the sanitation process of the business.”

It is Wrapmaster’s ability to enhance safety standards that Rasul values most;

“I don’t have to worry about cardboard heating up next to a pan and the plastic wrap coming out in pieces. [Wrapmaster®] can sit right next to a hot pan and I can still wrap. So, it benefits me a lot. It benefits me a heck of a lot.

“You can put it in the dishwasher and that’s something you can’t do with a cardboard box. I can load it back up and I’m back to work again. I can spill on the plastic. I can wipe it off, sanitize it, and I’m back to work again. The only thing you could do with cardboard box is put in in the garbage.”

With four new Grits & Eggs Breakfast Kitchens opening in the space of four months, the team are committed to building a second chance initiative for homeless people or prisoners who want to get their lives back on track and make a positive difference. In Atlanta, more than 200 jobs are being created with Chef Rasul keen  to inspire people to work in hospitality and love what they do.

“This is something that we look forward to doing” confides Rasul “to be able to bring that to our community is special to us because we’re able to help people.

Wrapmaster® is very proud to be part of the journey, as the Grits & Eggs breakfast community grows.

Michael explains;

“Wrapmaster® will be in all of these locations. At the end of the day, we stand behind it 100% when it comes to having a piece of equipment that’s going to contribute to our success.”

Rasul adds, “Wrapmaster® benefits the restaurant all the way around the board. I feel like it should have been out years ago because you really save a lot of money. Every time you see Grits & Eggs, you’ll see Wrapmaster®.”

For more information or to request a demo please visit  https://www.wrapmaster.global

* grits are a popular dish in the American South, made from crushed or ground corn similar to porridge.