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Buffet, Catering, Serving
The business of hospitality and food will keep you on your toes. It is
a competitive field, and you need to stand out among the lot. You have
to attend to the needs of your guests at all times, and score your points
in areas, where others may fail to deliver. Service becomes integral to
the success of your restaurant business. Let’s help you look at
the buffet and catering service requirements in and outside your kitchen.
Imagine shifting your kitchen outside for a day, and hosting your friends
or guests without using your indoor facilities. It is going to be a nightmare!
You couldn’t possible lug out the heavy kitchen equipment and cook
or serve outside, with the usual set of kitchenware.
Of course, outdoor catering from your kitchen requires a host of other
kitchen equipment, most of it in portable, light versions of the permanent
kitchen establishment. Your mobile service facilities should be complemented
by innovative, yet practical catering equipment. Even if you are planning
a buffet gathering, or have a lunch hour buffet service in your restaurant,
you would need to avail of the food warmers, catering trays, food wells,
chafers, and so on.
At AppleRestaurantSupply.com, you will find these and many more bar supplies
and bar equipments, and you also have the option of choosing between a
host of kitchen supplies.
Creating Magic:
Carving Stations
Beautiful ice-swans for a wedding, or a Santa Claus-shaped cake for the
Christmas celebrations, or simple experiments with the salad, or a roast
turkey. When it comes to presentation of food, an expert Chef will leave
his stamp on his creation. Fruit and vegetable carvings draw you to the
dining section, and bring a new dimension to the aesthetic appeal of food.
Roast turkey and other kinds of roast meat are usually carved at the carving
stations with single or twin heat lamps. The contraptions are in different
arm-length options for the lamp and the size of the carving board.
These carving stations can be ordered online on AppleRestaurantSupply.com.
Here, you can choose from the range of kitchen equipment from Carlisle
or Cres Cor.
Chafers and Accessories
Buffets with hot meals require an array of chafers, and related accessories.
But, chafers in the conventional models lend an old world look to the
catering service. If you want to go in for a contemporary service at the
buffet, you could even go for the hot plates, electric unit
And there is also a universal chafer lid-holder which you can pick up
as an add-on accessory. Oneida, World Tableware, Carlisle, Cadco, and
Johnson-Rose Corp. and Table Craft are the brands that you can choose
from. You can order these on AppleRestaurantSupply.com.
Show it off!
Display Cases
The aroma of freshly baked bread and cake attracts customers to a patisserie
or a baker’s shop. But, an attractive display adds to the appeal
of the food products on sale. Live cooking in the kitchen, which is cooking
activity in full view of the customer, is one such practice that bridges
the gap between the guest and his food. Many a great Chefs have spoken
of the importance ‘eating with your eyes,’ which is food appreciation
with the visual sense. That is one area where you can boost the sales
of your confectionaries and pastries, cakes and breads, by simply adding
an effective display option.
Display cases with covers will do the job when it comes to small birthday
cakes. For wedding cakes and bigger pastries, you could go in for a cake
display stand or serving trays, depending on the size of the pastry. Cake
covers will be of help to housewives who like to whip up desserts at home
and surprise their families. Decorative serving and catering trays will
ease the pressure on you to do your own publicity. Your cakes and pastries
will speak for themselves, attractively showcased in the catering trays.
The bottom line is if what you make is worth looking at, and tastes out
f the world, it should be served in style. Choose from the various models
from Carlisle, listed on AppleRestaurantSupply.com.
It’s Hot, Hot, Hot!
Steaming curries, hot breads, sizzlers or a hot cup of coffee. Your restaurant
business will generate a lot of heat only if you serve the food at the
right temperature – which varies from lukewarm to sizzling hot –
depending on the order. Whether catering for a buffet lunch, or serving
at an outdoor venue, you will have no choice to rely on the heating equipment
to keep your preparations warm and your service cordial.
Food Warming Trays
Now, trays make for a convenient display-cum-heating option. Where semi-solid
dishes are on offer, a hot tray better known in restaurant terminology
as a food-warming tray, can more often than not do the job very well.
Apart from the restaurateur, it is also a good investment for you on an
individual level, if you happen to host frequent dinners at your place.
There is a multi-level buffet server counter on offer as well. Cadco offers
a range of countertop warming trays, which you will find on AppleRestaurantSupply.com.
Food Warmers Countertop
Over the counter food warmers bring in another option. You could forego
the food-warming tray for the countertop option, in case you engage your
Chefs in live cooking. While the warming trays can be used for nominal
reheating of already prepared food, the buffet range on offer at Cadco,
Anvil, Crestware, Carlisle, APWwyott permit you the option to cook on
the counter as well. Electrically heated buffet counter units and multi-level
service counters can be ordered from AppleRestaurantSupply.com.
A hot food merchandiser is another piece of equipment among the range
of food heating devices on offer. Depending on the number of orders that
you take on an average, and your hosting requirements, go for the model
that best suits your service needs and budget.
Food Wells Built-in
Staying with food warming devices, a restaurant with catering services
would also need hot food wells to keep bigger quantities of food warm.
You could either go for a single compartment, two compartments, or multi-compartment
options. Choose from among the food wells from Carlisle and APWwyott.
Insulated Food and Beverage Carriers
Carrying your well-prepared food to its destination then becomes a management
task for the restaurateur. Food insulation units and beverage carriers
with different carrying capacity options from Cambro and Cres Cor are
available on AppleRestaurantSupply.com.
Help Yourselves
Salad Bars and Accessories
An essential part of the buffet meal is the salad. Working as an appetizer
for some, as an entire meal by itself for the health-conscious guest,
salad can be presented well as part of the style and presentation scheme
in your restaurant. Cold foods in their uncooked form, like raw cucumbers,
tomatoes, onions, lettuce and other green leafy vegetables, usually topped
with nuts and salad dressings, make for the most common salads across
restaurants. Chefs often experiment with pasta and various kinds of dressings
like vinegar, honey et al in preparing a variety of salads. Once they
are prepared and put on the buffet counter, these raw food preparations
are available usually for a couple of hours. Salad bars with covers are
a good option in the case of a buffet. For those restaurants that specialize
with the delivery of quick meals or fast foods, such salad bars are commonplace,
because of their utility in this food sector.
Cambro and Carlisle give you ample options to choose from their range
of crocks, ladles, salad bowls, pom tongs, salad tongs that will go a
long way in making your life at the salad end of service easier. The table-top
salad bar with covers and the sneeze guard should do the job of keeping
the food items away from errant pests or customers. Another good utility
kitchen equipment available on AppleRestaurantSupply.com is the serving
counter salad bar.
Serving Baskets
The welcome drink at arrival has become a norm at the arrival of guests,
across the hospitality sector around the world. But, room service also
begins with the provision of fresh fruits in a complimentary fruit basket.
Refresh your guests with an assortment of fruits served in baskets of
different shapes and sizes. Salad and fruit bowls come in plastic and
wooden make. Take your pick from the various models on offer from Carlisle,
Get and Cambro at AppleRestaurantSupply.com.
Serving Utensils
All your cooking has to travel from the ‘pot to the plate.’
Oh, and as they say, there is many a slip between the cup and the lip.
So get your serving utensils in place. Pick up tongs, that come or a variety
of functions, like picking up and serving ice, pastries, salad, spaghetti,
and so on. Log on to AppleRestaurantSupply.com and pick up pom tongs or
any other kind of tongs from Johnson-Rose Corp.
Soup Kettles
According to a Jewish proverb, ‘Worries go down easily with soup.’
If you’re looking at a hassle-free soup service with your starters,
get your kitchen equipped with relevant catering equipment. Choose from
among the soup cookers, soup warmers, or soup kettles from APWwyott or
Winco. Find these listed on AppleRestaurantSupply.com.
Go ahead…. Serve in style!
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