Duchess Restaurants Selects Beyond Oil as Frying Standard Across the Chain
Homegrown Connecticut quick-service restaurant chain, serving diners since 1956, endorses Beyond Oil's frying technology
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Beyond Oil Ltd. (TSX: BOIL) (OTCQB: BEOLF) (“Beyond Oil” or the “Company”), a food-tech innovation company dedicated to reducing health risks associated with fried food while improving food quality, lowering operational costs, minimizing waste and enhancing sustainability, today announced that Duchess Restaurants (“Duchess”), Connecticut’s homegrown quick-service restaurant chain, has selected the Company’s solution as its frying standard for its restaurants.
The partnership follows a pilot program launched in 2025 that successfully validated Beyond Oil’s technology in Duchess kitchens. With the pilot complete, Duchess is proceeding with implementation across its restaurants, targeting more consistent food quality, reduced oil consumption and waste, and lower operating costs. The endorsement adds to Beyond Oil’s expanding base of commercial restaurant partnerships across North America.
“Quality and freshness have defined Duchess since 1956, and our guests expect that in every visit,” said Gary Lavin, President of Duchess Restaurants. “By partnering with Beyond Oil we will elevate food quality for our valued customers, and we expect to reduce oil consumption and waste, which is better for our operations and for our community. We put the technology through a full pilot in our own kitchens before making this decision, and it delivered in the environment where it matters most. This partnership is a commitment to our guests, our team members and the way we run our restaurants.”
“These relationships take time to build. You need to earn credibility with the customer, build trust and prove that the product works consistently in their real operating environment,” said Jonathan Or, CEO of Beyond Oil. “Duchess did exactly that. They ran a rigorous pilot in their own kitchens and made their decision on results, not promises, and we have tremendous respect for the way they put food quality at the center of their decision-making. Having an operator of Duchess’s standing adopt Beyond Oil within its restaurants is an important endorsement of our technology and of our commercial strategy. It also reflects the momentum we are building across the North American foodservice market, where we continue to progress pilots and evaluations with additional restaurant chains, supermarket groups and foodservice operators, and we look forward to sharing further commercial milestones in the months ahead.”
About Duchess Restaurants
Duchess Worldwide, Inc., doing business as Duchess, is a privately owned and operated regional casual fast food restaurant chain that has served southwestern Connecticut since its founding in 1956 by Harold and Jack Berkowitz in Bridgeport. Headquartered in Milford, Connecticut, Duchess operates 11 locations across Fairfield and New Haven counties, each featuring an eat-in dining room, take-out service and a drive-thru. For more information, please visit www.duchessrestaurants.com.
About Beyond Oil Ltd.
We all love fried food. Let’s make it better. Not by changing what people love. By improving the system behind it. Beyond Oil Ltd. (TSX: BOIL, OTCQB: BEOLF) is a food-tech innovation company on a mission to help foodservice operators improve fried food across every dimension that matters: quality, health, consistency, safety, sustainability and profitability. We achieve these outcomes by improving the system behind every kitchen, the frying performance and oil management that determine what lands on the plate. The Company’s patented technology, cleared by the FDA and Health Canada, integrates into existing kitchen workflows to improve frying performance and oil management, helping operators deliver more consistent food, strengthen operational control and reduce oil waste. Beyond Oil’s solution serves restaurant chains, supermarkets, hotels, catering, institutions and industrial frying operations worldwide, turning frying into a measurable, repeatable and scalable brand standard. The result is a better frying standard, helping every fryer, every shift and every plate live up to the food people love. For more information, please visit: www.beyondoil.co.
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