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Off Premise Caterers usually fall into three categories: Party Food Caterers, Buffet Caterers, Full-Service Caterers.

If you are experiencing leaks from your keg coupler, or it's difficult to engage or disengage the the tavern head from the keg, the problem may be a bent keg lug (keg ear). If the keg ear tabs are bent, the connection between the keg and tap leaks. Even if the keg does not leak, the bent lug causes the coupler to stick making it difficult to remove and a hassle when it comes to line cleaning time.

Global warming is a very real phenomenon that has already been shown to have serious consequences, including polar ice melting, natural habit and precipitation pattern disruption, and a global temperature increase. The United States, in an effort to reduce the amount of hazardous emissions released into the atmosphere, has started taking steps to transform the way many industries design their products. One such industry is refrigeration manufacturing. Beginning in the spring of 2017, refrigeration manufacturers will need to comply with EPA-mandated energy efficiency standards that will, depending on the type of refrigeration, require an energy-level reduction of up to 50%. In order to meet this goal, companies like True Manufacturing are coming up with a number of solutions, including the hydrocarbon refrigerant.

For as little as 29-1/4"W x 20-1/16" D in counter space, your convenience store, deli, food truck, or outdoor event can offer fresh-roasted rotisserie chickens to your customers. A Vollrath Countertop Rotisserie Oven/Merchandiser cooks and displays your food in a compact unit.

The first refrigeration systems simply used ice to keep their contents at the proper temperature. Nowadays, an elaborate system involving a condenser, compressor, evaporator, and other parts is used to keep your food cool. While this new system usually involves less effort on our part, certain preventative maintenance is required to ensure your commercial refrigerator is as efficient as possible for as long as possible. One part of this maintenance involves cleaning your condenser coils at least twice a year to remove hair and dust buildup. The condenser is designed to collect and release heat from inside the fridge; when dust and other debris build up on its surface, it is unable to release heat as efficiently, which can cause problems for your refrigerator. Thankfully, cleaning these coils is a fairly simple process.

A convection oven equipped with steam is referred to as a “combi” oven in the foodservice industry. The reason these ovens are called combi ovens is that they bake with a mix of the hot, dry air of an oven and the wet heat of a steamer. Combi ovens can cook with ambient air (as an ordinary convection oven does), with injected steam, or with a combination of both. A combi oven is an oven with three functions: convection, steam, and combination cooking. In the convection mode, the oven circulates dry heat with a convection fan. The circulated air will cook products 25% faster than a conventional oven. The steam mode injects water into the oven to poach fish, rice, and vegetables, keeping your food moist as it cooks. Combi ovens offer the ability to regulate humidity along an impressively wide temperature range.

Cleaning your commercial charbroiler each and every day it is used will increase the lifetime of your equipment: Before you start, remember to put on cleaning gloves to protect your hands from grease and harsh chemicals. After you turn off the charbroiler, while the broiler is still warm, use a wire cleaning brush designed for charbroilers to scrape off stuck-on food particles and grease from the grate. After you clean the top of the grates with the brush, turn them over and repeat the process, brushing off the grease and caked on food particles.

There have been many stories circulated on how the shot glass earned its name. The fact is, nobody is certain about the exact origins of the American shot glass, but there have been many different speculations, all quite fascinating: One such speculation takes place in the American Old West, where a bullet for a cowboy’s six-gun cost 12 cents, and so did a glass of whiskey. If the cowboy was short on cash he would give the bartender a bullet from his gun in exchange for a glass of whiskey, and this became known as a “shot” or “shot glass” of whiskey.

July 27th is National Scotch Day. If I didn't have bills to pay, I would celebrate National Scotch Day at that place where "everybody knows my name." To be honest, I will still probably celebrate National Scotch day at that place where "everybody knows my name", the celebration will just have to wait until after work. Let's talk about scotch for a moment. The most important thing to understand is that all scotch is whiskey, but not all whiskey is scotch. The drink that combines the two, the aptly named scotch whiskey, is made only in Scotland and must be aged in oak barrels for at least three years.

During the summer months, your customers' demand for products with ice goes up, while at the same time your ice machine’s performance slows down. This poor performance from your ice machine is usually caused by either poor maintenance routines, heat, or both. The warmer the air temperature, the harder your ice machine must work to produce ice. The neglecting of maintenance routines and built-up scale and contaminant deposits cause your ice machine to work even harder. A combination of the two can lead to your ice machine completely failing.