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Baker’s Pride Y-600-DSP Gas Pizza Ovens

April 15, 2020 | No Comments »

Perfect for display cooking and exhibition kitchens, Baker’s Pride Y-600-DSP Gas Pizza Ovens are built for behind a decorative façade of brick, stone or tile. They feature front and side skirts that allow tile or stone to be easily installed around the legs, with a dome top accent to finish the look. An option of either stainless steel or a black powder coat control panel finish with hardwood handles completes the old-world look!

This model is built to last as well! Constructed with heavy-duty .25” angle iron frame, which is fully welded to allow double stacking. Additional options to add to the configuration of your kitchen include special-height legs, and side mounted controls.

Features:

  • 120,000 total BTUH
  • Natural or LP gas
  • Stackable
  • 300–650°F temperature range
  • One Lightstone fibrament deck (2” thick)
  • 8″ deck height
  • Dome top accent
  • Independently controlled top and bottom heat dampers
  • Combination gas controls with valve, regulator, and pilot safety
  • Heavy-duty, slide-out flame diverters
  • All stainless steel exteriors, aluminized steel interiors
  • Stainless steel or trimmed with black-powder-coated panels and hardwood door handles
  • Front and side skirts for mounting tile or stone
  • Spring-balanced, fully insulated doors
  • Left-side or rear 3/4″ NPT gas connection
  • Heavy-duty steel legs finished with durable Bakertone
  • Fully insulated throughout
  • Two-year limited warranty

Social Distancing Solutions for Foodservice Operations

April 14, 2020 | No Comments »

Several foodservice equipment and supply manufacturers are providing solutions for the challenges social distancing presents to foodservice operators, grocery stores, and other essential businesses. They have the industry relationships and knowledge to help you. Being the first to know, they’re working hard to make sure you know what’s available and how to get what you need to lead your operation through this challenging time.

Social Distance Floor Mats

This is ideal for foodservice, grocery, and any business that would like to replace the tape on the floor with attractive mats that convey the message.  Cactus Mat came up with a creative way to help you go the distance. Customers can keep the distance with these attractive and functional floor mats.

Protective Guards and Shields

CALMIL offers cash register and suspended guard plastic barriers for the safety of your team and guests. These high clarity, impact resistant barriers include hardware for installation. Custom options are available.

Checkout Shields

This easy-to-install Checkout Shield ensures the protection of your employees and customers by separating them from sneezes or coughs during cashier transactions. The durable, professional look of the shield lets customers know that their safety is your top priority.

Flexible Lightweight Barrier

This clear, sanitary-positive barrier at point-of-sale is designed to improve health and safety, while preserving friendly, face-to-face customer interaction. The simple design, as a countertop stand or hanging-ceiling version, makes assembly and installation extremely easy. Highly stable, yet lightweight for convenient mobility from one counter space to another.

Infrared No-Contact Forehead Thermometers

Cooper-Atkins, a leader in food safety thermometers, announced they will have an infrared forehead thermometer for medical (human) use available by the end of April. Model 4DET-306 is an infrared that has the FDA 510K certification.

Structural Concepts Reveal Frameless Glass Food Display

April 8, 2020 | No Comments »

A 2018 Kitchen Innovation Award winner, the Reveal Frameless Glass Food Display combines two elements of a great display; superior refrigeration performance with an elegant look. The frameless insulated glass work perfectly with any décor, and simply directs eyes towards the food without being distracting. The Argon gas-insulated double glass panes provide a thermal barrier and reduces condensation, and is designed beautifully.

Features:

  • Variety of finishes offered
  • Minimized interior components
  • Adjustable rear-mounted shelves
  • Removable reflective rear sliding doors
  • UVIG condensation-free glass
  • Breeze-E slide out-refrigeration
  • Designed for NSF Type II environments
  • Protected and secure shipping
  • Removable installation handles
  • Made in USA

Restaurant Pick-Up and Delivery During COVID-19

April 6, 2020 | No Comments »

Restaurant Partners and Fans Are All In

Foodservice equipment and supply dealers and manufacturers are feverishly working together to come up with ways to help restaurants strengthen revenue opportunities, while their dining areas are closed.  There is a loyal partnership between restaurant owners and equipment and supply dealers and manufacturers. The focus is on helping restaurants stay strong during this difficult time.

We’re seeing fast turn-around of product shipments to restaurants working on starting up or enhancing their foodservice pick-up and delivery business. We are also seeing the admiration and appreciation for restaurants, as loyal customers order food for pick-up and delivery, until they can walk into the dining room again and enjoy their favorite restaurant experiences.

Communication with Your Current and Potential Customers

It’s a good idea to have a “special” area on your website home page communicating your response to COVID-19. This could include special hours, initiatives, and pick-up and delivery service information.  Let your customers know what you are offering and how much you appreciate their support. Identify the story you want to tell about the experience your customers will receive when they order from you.

Present your story with video testimonials. Engage through Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, and more.

Connect with emails, blogs, online ads, local food bloggers and influencers. Make content fun, personal to your customers, and about your employees and events. Partner with food apps and make sure your restaurant is listed. Keep your Yelp and google listing updated.

Have a good online management program in place. Make sure you respond to customer reviews in a timely manner and post regularly to your social media channels. Pictures and videos are the most viewed posts.

Tips For Starting Up Food Delivery and Take-Out

Take a look at your menu and identify the high profit menu items that travel well. You don’t have to include your entire menu for food delivery. One idea is to put together unique comfort food meals for families during this time. Make it fun and let them know who you are and why you enjoy serving them.

Invest in good packaging and transport supplies to make sure the food arrives in good form and at the right temperature.

Always include tamper-proof stickers when utilizing a third party delivery service. This just lets your customers know you care about the food you are delivering.

Make sure the food presentation looks good. Include brand identification or creative ambiance generators. Could be a signature glass or cup, be creative. Include a thank you note.

Your Dealer consultant is working with manufacturers to have foodservice delivery products available to you quickly. Here is just a handful of equipment and supplies to consider:

  • Thermal carriers for transporting hot and cold foods
  • Thermal bags for safe food delivery
  • Heated drawers and heat lamps for keeping hot food hot for pick-up and delivery drivers
  • Food storage boxes so individual orders can be transported to the delivery sites, and to keep food fresh in the restaurant
  • Sheet pan racks and food storage carts for holding orders for pick-up and delivery drivers
  • Heated holding cabinets to keep food at safe temperatures
  • Thermometers for maintaining food safe temperatures
  • Mobile hand washing stations at the pick-up site and for drivers coming in and out in between deliveries
  • Countertop cooking equipment

Contact your dealer consultant. They are ready to work with you.

The Dexter UR-Cut Knife

April 2, 2020 | No Comments »

What makes a good knife? The ability to hold an edge? What about balance? While these are all very important features of a good knife, many chefs prefer the way it feels in their hand.

But what if you could mold a knife’s handle to feel like an extension of your own hand? That’s what you get with Dexter’s UR-Cut! Not only is the handle fully moldable and personalized to you, but the blade is manufactured from proprietary stain free, high-carbon steel and individually ground and honed. You know that the balance will be right too, as Dexter has been making blades since 1818. It is also made in the U.S.A.

To mold the handle, you simply remove your new Dexter UR-Cut from the package. Use an oven mitt to dip the handle in boiling water for two minutes. Remove it and quickly dip it in cold water for one second, then grip and squeeze the handle as you would when using it. Dip the handle back into cold water for ten seconds to set the shape and then let it cool. When you’re done, the knife grip will be form fit and ergonomically molded to your very own hand for a sure grasp and unmatched comfort.

True’s TRCB-110 Chef Base

March 30, 2020 | No Comments »

TRCB-110

True’s TRCB-110 refrigerated chef base is designed with enduring quality that protects your long term investment. They are designed using the highest quality materials and components to provide the user with colder product temperatures, lower utility costs, exceptional food safety and the best value in today’s food service marketplace. Over-sized and environmentally friendly (134A), the forced-air refrigeration system holds 33°F to 38°F (.5°C to 3.3°C).

Features:

  • Cabinet top is one piece, heavy duty reinforced stainless steel. Drip resistant “V” edge protects against spills.
  • All stainless steel front, top and sides. Matching aluminum finished back.
  • Each drawer accommodates two full size 12”L x 20”W x 4”D (305 mm x 508 mm x 102 mm) food pans (sold separately).
  • Heavy-duty stainless steel drawer slides and rollers. Removable without tools for easy cleaning.
  • Foamed-in-place using a high density, polyurethane insulation that has zero ozone depletion potential (ODP) and zero global warming potential (GWP).

Spill-Stop’s 285-50 Chrome Tapered Pourer

March 24, 2020 | No Comments »

As bar operators know, the costs of running a bar can stack up. However, there are areas where you can save money that many don’t think about. One of these is the type of pour spouts you use.

Spill-Stop’s 285-50 Chrome Tapered Pourer is the choice of many bar operators, and its consistency is the key to reducing waste and over-pouring. That can save a large amount of money over time.

Look at it this way: the average cost of a drink with 1 ounce of liquor is $7.50. If your bartender over-pours by 20%, you are losing one drink for every five that are poured. There are 33.8 ounces in every 1 liter bottle (Approximately 33 drinks per bottle). So, if your bartender consistently over-pours by 20%, you are losing six drinks for every 1 liter bottle sold. Those six drinks equal $45.00 in lost sales!

So you can stop worrying about losing money by over-pouring and by using Spill-Stop’s 285-50… start making more money!

Traulsen’s Quick Chiller

March 17, 2020 | No Comments »

Traulsen’s 48” length Quick Chiller not only provides desired quick-chilling convenience, but maximizes productivity and food safety in a compact footprint!

The Quick Chiller’s airflow is specially calibrated to chill batches through the “danger zone” of temperatures in the time the FDA requires. Traditional refrigeration units rise in temperature when hot food is added, leading to too-slow chilling and spoilage. Traulsen’s Quick Chiller will quickly chill even delicate foods, and is a first step in demonstrating your due diligence in food safety.

Features:

  • Microprocessor Control: Digital controls are easy to monitor with no complicated configurations
  • Rapid Chilling Airflow System: System rapidly circulates 31-34°F air to chill foods past spoilage-prone temperatures
  • Options: Choose between drawer and door models; casters and countertop options available

Vulcan’s SonicSafe Ultrasonic Scale Prevention for Steamers

March 11, 2020 | No Comments »

A 2018 Kitchen Innovation Award recipient, the SonicSafe Ultrasonic Scale Prevention for Steamers from Vulcan has integrated automatic scale prevention inside their line of electronic generator-based steamers.

Often used in large processing plants and heavy manufacturing operations, this scale prevention uses ultrasonic technology to foodservice kitchen steamers. This means less downtime and better performance without having to change scale prevention filters, and knowing that scale won’t be an issue in your steamer!

Check out the video below for more information:

Hamilton Beach’s otto, The Juice Extractor

March 9, 2020 | No Comments »

The king of the FreshMark juicing line, Hamilton Beach’s otto is built to handle the busiest of operations. Designed with dual cooling fans to handle continuous use, you’ll find that it is also powerful and quiet thanks to its brushless induction motor.

Constructed using a rugged aluminum alloy, stainless steel, and BPA-free, it is just as easy to clean as it is to juice!

Features:

  • Optimized to maximize flavor and juice yield
  • Powerful, quiet brushless induction motor
  • Dual cooling fans designed for continuous use
  • Stainless steel, aluminum, and BPA-free construction
  • Durable and easy to clean
  • Designed for back-to-back juicing

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