TheIns And Outs Of Restaurant Equipment

The type of restaurant equipment you will need for your restaurant depends on the type of service you provide. For example, if you are a full-scale restaurant you will need many more equipment items that a small mom and pop store will need. If you are a fast food restaurant, you will need different items than a restaurant along the lines of Ruby Tuesday’s.

There are so many different types of restaurant equipment available throughout the world that it will be in possible for me to write about them all. Therefore, I have chosen a few fascinating pieces of equipment to help you in your search and maybe make your job or that of your employees job a little easier along the way.

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You should give serious consideration to investing in a reliable food processor. They save time and labor. The way in which your food is processed, how you chop, dice, mix, grate and blend will greatly affect the amount of time it takes to provide the ending result to your customer. By investing in a quality food processor you are investing in a piece of restaurant equipment that will provide safety, better time management and essentially better results.

The refrigerator is the most critical piece of restaurant equipment you can ever buy. Keeping cold foods cold is essential to food quality and the extreme importance of food safety. Invest in a refrigerator that will show you the temperature accurately on the outside of the equipment. Find a refrigerator that is tough and built to last, with proper usage.

Delivering cold and hot beverages is extremely important to the success of your restaurant. This piece of restaurant equipment should provide a quick and efficient way of dispensing the beverages. You will need a well-designed layout to deliver the best product to your customers. A soda tower has the ability to dispense six different beverages and has an ice dispensing point. The ice dispenser should hold around 100 to 150 pounds of ice.

Fried foods are as popular as ever. To keep pace with the demand, today’s frying equipment offers features that save time and money and help you prepare consistent, quality products. Commercial deep-fat fryers are complex pieces of equipment designed to turn out load after load of perfectly fried foods. Today’s frying equipment has many features to fit every size restaurant’s needs.

Gas and electric roasters differ from home roasters in that you can place them in an isolated spot with no access to electricity and they don’t require electricity to work. The storage drawer of a gas-fired roaster can hold around 11.5 gallons of coals, or enough to feed a family of four for roughly one full hour.

Gas and electric deep fryers are perfect for outdoor and indoor use. In an outdoor deep fryer, gas flames and those around the fire have to be channeled away from the diners, inlet piping hot. In an oven, the fire must always be channeled up and away from the food.

A gas-fired roaster can be paid for with coffee cafe start-up money, or you can buy the equipment and pay for the ads, or you can sell the equipment and earn your own profit. Every restaurant should own at least one commercial deep fryer.

insulated gas fryer

This is a good buy, especially if you expect to use the fryer a lot. Just consider the cost of the investment in fuel, and the fairly high up front cost of the investment in the equipment. If you fry a lot, you will need the investment in the fryer, pots and pans. If you sell the excess, you will pay cash.

An insulated deep fryer should be able to keep the temperature around 225 degrees F. They should have a life span of about ten years. If you expect to have it around the house, I would suggest a portable one because you can move it about. And if you have a large family, you probably will not need more than one.

A nice kitchenaid stand mixer could be helpful on super busy days when you have several things to prep such as a loaf of bread and the likes.

When you prep the food, you will have less time to react with the kids or do other household chores.

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