Food safety product system / From 2000, developed over several years
The Egg Splitter System (TESS)
A system developed to reduce salmonella risk by allowing eggs to move through restaurant handling and processing without staff touching the shell.
Proof point
The project sits between object design and operational design: a tool, a process and a risk-control idea.
JUNGDESIGN / CASE 09No-touch egg handling
Product-system developer working with fast-food operational requirements.
Client / context
McDonald’s New Zealand and Australia divisions
David’s role
Product-system developer working with fast-food operational requirements.
Disciplines
food safety / product system / risk reduction / commercial operations / process design
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What had to be solved
In high-volume food service, egg-shell contamination risk is amplified by repetition. McDonald’s Australia alone handled tens of millions of eggs per year.
02
What JungDesign did
David developed a system enabling eggs to be delivered to and processed through a restaurant without direct shell contact by staff.
03
Why it mattered
A product-system response to operational food-safety risk, developed with major commercial users over a multi-year period.
Connection to the paintings
This kind of work explains the structure in David’s paintings: the clear edge, the controlled crop, the object treated seriously, and the confidence that comes from decades of making ideas survive contact with real-world constraints.
