China and Dinnerware

Shopping for your cutlery, crockery and dinner sets is one task where you need to put your thinking cap on, and weigh all your options seriously, before you pin down one option as the final choice. Begin at the location and ambience. Is your house or restaurant a place where lots of young people frequent, or families with children are your usual guests or customers? Can you afford to risk expensive crockery at their disposal?

Do you have a takeaway service with disposable packaging needs? Or do you have a fine dining restaurant where you would want some very fine china to add to the experience of having the exclusive food you prepare?

Do your calculations well before you invest in the dishes and utensils for service. Let us take you through the options available at AppleRestaurantSupply.com.

Acrylic Dinnerware
It may not add to the richness of your décor, but it can serve as an unbreakable, long-lasting utility item. For a dessert bowl to serve the special pudding from your bakery, order Carlisle’s Tulip Dessert dish.

Ceramic or China Dinnerware
One of the most wanted and frequently ordered set of dinnerware china are the ceramic kinds. To add the vintage touch, and to make it feel like home, get hold of the dinner sets.
The dinnerware whether it is in ceramic or china, or as a melamine set, will include a set of dishes including several serving pieces. Platters, soup bowls, plates, mugs, nappies, creamers, Chinese tea cups, regular cups and saucers - World Tableware has an extensive list of kitchen items, including dinnerware options in ceramic make.
Pay special attention to the arrangement of your china and cutlery. The right kind of wine glasses should be placed at the correct side of the plate. There is nothing more annoying to the customer than a table laid in the wrong manner, especially so if he is a connoisseur of food.

Contemporary Melamine
Frequent use is not what you put your expensive china set and dinnerware through. For that, you should acquire the contemporary melamine dinner sets. Brands and prices can be made available on request.

Flatware
For the uninitiated, flatware is not just another flat dish, but the cutlery that accompanies your dishes. The eating utensils such as spoons, forks, knives, and serving ladles make their way to the list of flatware. An extensive list of flatware items from World Tableware, Crestware and Johnson-Rose Corp. is available on AppleRestaurantSupply.com. Here, you could go as specific as you choose to. Pick a Baguette tablespoon or a teaspoon, a carving knife or a sauce ladle, a meat fork or a fish knife, a butter spreader, or a Bouillon spoon. Cake and pastry servers also come as part of the flatware range from World Tableware.
Dessert forks and salad forks are separate from the regular meal cutlery. Even iced tea stirrers and spoons come with their own unique look, and so do entrée knives and cocktail spoons. However, how detailed your cutlery and dinnerware range should be, is a decision that only you can take, depending on your own specific catering needs. For instance, serving spoons come in different versions, as a regular solid serving spoon or as a slotted one. Flatware would also include ice tongs for your bar, and some other serving tongs. Sauce cups and gravy boats complementing the flatware are also available. And finally, if your budget permits, you could even indulge in elegance with silver-plated cutlery.

Institutional Melamine
Durable plastic dishes like those made of melamine should feature on your restaurant supplies’ list because of their longevity in a busy restaurant scenario. Melamine is of two kinds, the contemporary or regular melamine, and the institutional melamine. There is a difference in the make, and durability. This translates into the costing difference. Institutional melamine tableware includes
These items lend a polished look to your home kitchen or restaurant. They are available in dinner sets of 36 pieces and multiples of the same. The most popular shades are white, tan and café blue. And they are easy to wash and easy to use.
Gravy dishes could make it to your inventory, if you happen to have a spicy gravy listing on your menu. Dishes called gravy boats, because of their peculiar shape that facilitates pouring, can be added to your dinnerware. Order from the gravy boats offered by Gessner in sets of twelve pieces.
Shallow bowls for serving sauces or condiments, also known as monkey dishes can add to the variety on your dinner table. They have great utility as small dishes to carry accompaniments. Monkey dishes from Gessner can be used for carrying salad dressings. Orders can be placed on AppleRestaurantSupply.com in multiples of 3 pieces.
Whether you like it in its strip-shaped or curly version, as a tube-shaped or as a straight noodle, whether you call it by any other name – macaroni, spaghetti, lasagna, vermicelli, or ravioli, you cannot ignore the quintessential flour dish that has come from the Italian kitchens – the Pasta. The long and short of it is that pasta should make it to your guest’s table as an individual dish in its own pasta bowl. Choose from the various shades on offer from Carlisle, although the shiny black bowl makes for a smart choice.
You could also choose from Carlisle’s range of salad bowls that can also be used as desert bowls. They are also available in institutional melamine. These can be ordered in multiples of 48 pieces per set. Another place where you can use these multi-purpose bowls is at the breakfast table, as salad bowls or cereal bowls.
Another popular item in the melamine series is the quintessential soup bowl. Your soup dish makes it to the guest’s table before the elaborate meal. Here, you can spell out your business’ focus on quality and taste, by choosing quality products in the color range from Carlisle, and set the tone for the meal to come. And on AppleRestaurantSupply.com, you have a whole lot of color shades to choose from, right from ocean blue, to Firenze green, honey yellow, bone, sunset orange, Roma red, Napoli plum, sand and Venetian tan. You could also go for the conventional white.

Stainless Steel Dinnerware
This is really something you find in catering kitchens. It’s only when you look hard for the right designs from good, experienced makers, that you can come across that unique set of stainless steel dinnerware that can set your restaurant apart.

Steak and Sizzling Platters
The sizzle or the hissing sounds of the chicken or meat as it gets cooked or served on a hot sizzling platter is an appetizing aural delight, apart from the sight of the steam rising from the hot, sizzling dish.
There may be debates about whether they are Mexican in origin, or Texan, but wherever they come from, Fajitas are one of America’s favorite foods, beyond doubt. It goes without saying that the combination of grilled meat served on corn or wheat tortillas, or the popular Fajitas, deserve a dedicated serving dish amongst the dinnerware and china in the restaurant. Order in sets of twelve, from Johnson-Rose Corp.’s round or oval shaped Fajita Servers, from AppleRestaurantSupply.com.
The steak platter comes in two options – one with the wooden underlining, and one as an independent platter. Even a separate steel plate can be picked up from Carlisle’s platters, again in sets of twelve or more. Care should be taken in the service of sizzlers, and staff should be trained in dealing with such high-heat service dishes. Of course, the sounds and aroma emanating from this magical platter make for the most exciting dining experiences.

Value Flatware
If you want to start a fine dining restaurant, you would be looking for value flatware or cutlery that comes with a refined, expensive look. This flatware could be made available on request.

Woven Wood Dinnerware
If you love the texture of wood, and also want to add some variety to your décor, get some wooden bowls on your counters. These may be used to serve salads, or to offer dried nuts and potato chips. These beautiful salad bowls come in sizes ranging from 7 inches to 12 inches diameter, along with matching wooden spoons or ladles from Table Craft. You will get these on AppleRestaurantSupply.com.

The dinnerware must go with the overall look of the interiors and the kind of service you offer in your catering business. Disposables are for quick service and takeaways, yet for an established business, a consistency in the make of the dishes and the dinnerware has to be maintained. The economics works out in your favor if you order in bulk, because the china tends to break easily in washing and handling, if one is not careful. That is why bigger orders make good business sense. For more ideas for your restaurant, and restaurant supply options, visit us at AppleRestaurantSupply.com.

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