Refrigeration & Ice Machines

The food business has to take into account a few variables like - limited shelf life of ingredients, and temperature considerations for storage, and service. While one part of it has to do with heating, the other part is refrigeration. Whether these are beverages like milk, juice, liqueur and soda, or it is ice cream, cheese, ice and other solid consumables, one needs to have the right kind of refrigeration equipment for specific items. At AppleRestaurantSupply.com, we give you a huge variety of
refrigeration and ice machines to choose from for your specific kitchen needs.

BAR ESSENTIALS

Bar Back Coolers
In the bar, consideration should be given to the liquor temperature. While serving beer, lager or ale, draught or pilsner, take care of the temperature consideration on the customer’s end. Different kinds of liqueur are enjoyed best at different temperatures. While cooler temperatures are the norm, the customers are more often than not finicky when it comes to the temperature range of their drinks.
And a display that catches your eye, can translate into instant sales. So be particular with your display arrangement and go for the right kind of bar equipment that gives you a suitable mix of style and utility. To help you do that, AppleRestaurantSupply.com presents you with a range of bar coolers from True, ColdTech and TurboAir.

BEER UNINTERRUPTED

Beer Taps/Dispensers
What’s a bar without an uninterrupted flow of liqueur? This isn’t something that one usually purchases for a home bar. But for the real professional bar owner, we would recommend the beer dispensers with taps as top of the list purchase priority. These are especially beneficial to the over-the-counter bars or pubs, where the beer sales are quite high. So pick up one of the beer dispensers from Coldtech, Turbo Air, Fagor or True bar equipments. And let the spirits flow.

Another good utility aid for the overworked bar man, who would practically make or break your business with his output, is a beverage dispenser. Cold beverages that go into your cocktails or mocktails can easily be stored in these dispensers that come with two to three dispenser options. Once stocked, it will help you sail through a big number of orders in a short span of time. Take your pick between Cecilware and Cornelius’ dispensers.

There is another set of cocktails and frozen drinks that require slush and frozen beverages for preparation. Add a frozen beverage dispenser, and reduce the cocktail preparation time by nearly half.
Another popular version of the beverage is Iced Tea. Dispensers come in stainless steel finish with two compartments and a tap for pouring tea. There are other models with a box-like shape and a semi-plastic make, with a capacity of two to ten gallons. Both the options are available from Cecilware and Bunn’s kitchen supplies. In fact, you can put this iced tea dispenser on your counter and catch the customer’s attention, with an effective blue display. To meet your needs for greater demand for iced tea, you can choose between single-tap and multi-tap models.

COOLER PASTURES

Bottle Coolers
If it is a small space that you have set aside for your bar, you can go in for an innovative piece of bar equipment that facilitates bottle storage and acts as a cooling device. Simply known as a bottle cooler, it lets you stack up your beer bottles. It comes in sleek-looking models that can go well with the overall look of the kitchen or bar. At Applerestaurantsupply.com, you can choose from among the range of restaurant equipment from True, Turbo Air and ColdTech.

FROZEN TALES

Chest Freezers, Deli Cases, Display Cases, Merchandiser-Freezer, Merchandiser-Refrigerator, Reach-In Freezers, Reach-In Refrigerators
Facilitate your mobility, and manage your space better – in the restricted restaurant kitchen space – by acquiring chest freezers. These freezers are especially useful in storing big quantities of ice cream, beer, and other items – along with a top glass display to assess the availability of these items. Kitchen equipment manufacturers like True and Cold Tech offer chest freezers like the Draft beer cooler, and the ice cream display freezers. Other refrigeration options for storage and display of meat are available – like the see through deli cases from True. These deli cases are available in these options – counter-height deli case, curved glass display case, double duty deli case, single duty deli case and single duty deli case see-through.
Display cases are also available from True and Turbo Air. The Knight curved glass display case with a 48-inch display would be ideal for a concession counter. True also offers the cold, curved glass display case. Apart from these, there are other display cases offered by Turbo Air – the Display case bakery, the display case refrigerated bakery, the open display merchandiser, and the ice cream merchandising case.
Cold meat and frozen food products can be sold right off the counter with freezer merchandisers and refrigerator merchandisers form Cold Tech, Turbo Air and True. These merchandisers vary in the exterior design, and capacity. Spot freezers are also available for speedy cooling.

Dual Temp Units
Cold storage with a dual option will work best for your kitchen, if you are looking for storing two separate commodities at two different temperatures. With two separate compartments, these dual temperature units allow two temperature settings for the two compartments. True, Cold Tech and Hoshizaki offer dual temp units like – Refrigerator-freezer dual temperature, the water filter assembly, the work top freezer, and the work top refrigerator.

SUGAR AND ICE

Ice Cream Dipping Cabinet, Ice Cream Machines
The king of frozen desserts – the ice cream – deserves its own set of kitchen equipment. Preparation and service of ice cream requires ice cream machines – like these: batch freezers – DuraFreeze, ice cream-yogurt machines – DuraFreeze, milk shake machines – countertop, floor models; shake dispensers, shake freezers, soft serve ice cream yogurt machine, soft serve shake combo machine, soft serve yogurt twin freezer, and batch ice cream freezers form SaniServ.
Batch ice cream freezers, soft serve freezers, and shake freezers are also available from Taylor in these models – floor, and countertop. Apart from these machines, there are slab chiller freezers – available in 72 inches width. Then there are the ice cream-dipping cabinets – for getting the chocolate sauce on to the soft serve. Dipping cabinets are available from True, and Silver King.

Ice Machines, Ice Machine Accessories
Make sure you get the ice bins on your purchase list for the home or restaurant-bar. In the business of alcohol, there is no excuse for running out of ice. But, a constant supply is difficult with the refrigerator being opened frequently. So, stock up on your ice in one of the ice bins from Krowne’s range of 24 to 36-inch ice bins. Ice-O-Matic also offers a wide range of ice bins and icemakers, in combination, and separately, in flake style, or regular ice cubes.
An ice bin is also ideal for your evening parties where you don’t want to keep running back into the kitchen for fetching more ice cubes. Of course, a properly designed home bar should accommodate the ice bin. Ice-O-Matic and San Jamar also offer a host of ice machine accessories like the ice bin mobile cart, the ice scoop caddy, the inline water filter, the Saf-T-Ice tote, and the water filter.

Mug/Plate Chillers
An order for chilled beer may be commonplace in your bar business. But, have you ever heard of chilled mugs or chilled plates? There is nothing hot about the bar, except for maybe the popularity quotient of your joint with the customers. Most beverages in a liqueur joint are served chilled or moderately cold. So, your cutlery isn’t supposed to be out of place in the entire set-up. Pick up a cold plate from your Plate Chiller and feel the difference in your sales. Take a pick from True’s bar equipment range of glass and plate chillers that come in two colors – black and white. Go for whatever fits best in your scheme of things.

Pizza Prep Tables, Sandwich Prep Tables, Sushi Display Cases, Mega Top
Having a pizza delivered to your place may not be hard, but making the pizza is no easy task. It is as elaborate as the Chef chooses – and requires a pizza prep table.
True offers pizza prep tables in variable volumes – 11.4 cubic feet, 15.9 cubic feet, 20.6 cubic feet, and 30.9 cubic feet. Cold Tech also offers pizza prep tables, besides Turbo Air – that offers a special Super pizza prep table – for bigger restaurant requirements.
Panini sandwiches, or foot longs stuffed with meat, ham, or cheese, make for great snack items on the restaurant menu, especially in fast food joints. With a toaster and a sandwich maker in your kitchen, you are all set to roll out all the Paninis your guests could ask for. Anvil, Cadco and Waring offer a range of sandwich grills, with single or split grilling options. Combination and commercial pop-up toasters are available from Waring and APWwyott. A special kind of commercial toaster called a Conveyor toaster allows you constant supply of toasted bread, without having to wait for the pop up after toasting. For the cold sandwiches, True and Turbo Air offer sandwich prep tables in different dimensions for different kitchen requirements. And for the Japanese delicacy – sushi - Turbo Air offers attractive Sushi display cases.

Undercounter Units, Work Top Units
Undercounter refrigerator units are ideal for catering kitchens with space constraint. Manage your kitchen space well by using the refrigeration counter as an under counter, for stacking more equipment on top, or as a worktop unit – using the top as a workspace. True and Hoshizaki offer undercounter refrigerators and worktops like the refrigerated chef base, the work top freezer, and the work top refrigerator.

Walk In Coolers & Freezers, Wine Chillers/Cellars
For the bigger hotel restaurant kitchens with high freezing requirements, walk-in coolers and freezers are useful kitchen equipments. MBMasterBilt offers indoor and outdoor freezer and refrigerator units in different sizes.
Whisky, wine, beer or rum, whatever it is that works for your guests, you need to be well stocked and well prepared for the demand for all kinds of liqueur. Anticipate that demand and keep your coffers full. Apart from the wine storage-cum-display racks, a good piece of restaurant equipment could be the wine chiller merchandiser.
You can choose from True, IRSG and Cooltech range of bar equipment.
And let your guests or customers enjoy the taste of fermented grapes dating another century.

Hygienic preparation and service at the right temperature – go a long way in making your food and restaurant services a hit with the customers – whether it is at the bar, at the dining table, or at the concession counter. If you’re looking for more, an exhaustive list of bar supplies and equipments is available on AppleRestaurantSupply.com.

Manufacturers:
Arctic Air
Ascend Mfg.
Beverage Air
ColdTech USA
Continental Refrigerator
Cornelius
Delfield
Electrolux Professional
Everest Refrigeration
Food Warming Equipment
Hoshizaki
Howard/McCray
Hussman
Kelvinator/Electrolux Commercial Products
Kelvinator/National refrigeration
Manitowoc
Master-Bilt Products
McCall Refrigeration
Nor-Lake
Randell
Sanyo Commercial Foodservice Equipment
Silver King
Summit Commercial
Traulsen
True Food Service Equipment, Inc.
Turbo Air
Utility Refrigerator
Victory Refrigeration