How To

Why You Must Have a FOB (Foam on Beer Detector) on your Long Draw Beer System & How to Maintain Your FOB

A FOB detector is designed to keep your lines filled with beer. The FOB detects an empty keg and shuts down the beer flow. What this does is eliminate the foam you get from an empty keg. It also eliminates the need to refill lines with beer and purge air from the system. Without a FOB installed on your beer line, when your keg goes empty, your tap starts spitting and spraying foam.

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Outdoor Beer Dispensing Made Simple with a Cold Plate Jockey Box

Summer events can be the perfect chance to expand your customer base by showcasing your superior line of beer products. One of the best ways to do that is by using our 48 Qt. Cold Plate Beer Cooler - 2 Tap Jockey Box. This portable beer dispenser chills your beer as it moves it to the faucets, which means that your customers are getting a crisp, refreshing beverage each time you pour. Produced by American Beverage, the 2 faucet jockey box is specifically created to cool two beer products at once, allowing you to feature not only a new, innovative product, but also supply an old favorite to keep your customers, old and new alike, hooked. It uses a cast-aluminum cold plate, in conjunction with foamed insulation and around 25-30 lbs. of CO2 pressure, to draw your beer from the keg and bring it to the ideal drinking temperature as it travels to the taps. And, not only can you take this cold plate jockey box just about anywhere, it is also practically indestructible and requires less ice than a coil cooler to function properly.

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Picnic Food Safety

An outdoor Fourth of July picnic can be quite difficult to plan and safely execute thanks to weather, bugs, and the heat index! Planning ahead and having the right food equipment will help to make for a smooth, fun picnic experience for all. One of the main concerns is bacteria, which multiply faster in hot, humid weather and can lead to food poisoning. Generally, potato salad is fingered as the main culprit, but the reality is, it's not just about keeping your cold food cold, it's also about keeping your hot food hot, as well as preventing any cross contamination between your raw meats and seafood.

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Profit in All-Day Breakfast

According to the market research firm NPD Group, McDonald’s restaurants have reaped some real benefits from their decision to offer breakfast all day. Surveys done at the participating stores found that the customers who purchased breakfast items at non-traditional hours had, for the most part, not visited their McDonald’s store in the month prior. McDonald’s was able to prove that he uptick in sales and new customers was in fact due to the all-day breakfast offerings.

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Choosing the Right Hot Dog Cooking Equipment for Your Needs

A hot dog vendor in the right location, with the right equipment, can earn six figures annually.That’s because the startup costs are easily within reach and the markup on hot dogs is good. Adding hotdogs to your concession, food truck menu or convenience store can generate extra revenue with good profit margins thanks to little labor being involved.

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Serve The Most Flavorful Beer to Your Bar Customers

As beer has evolved and matured, so has the vessel we serve it in. Just like wine, the flavor of different beer types will be enhanced if served in the correct beer glass. Most important to serving the best quality and taste in beer is actually the cleanliness of the glass. Providing the ultimate beer taste experience for your customer combines both, clean glasses and glass shape.

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Installing Your Restaurant Kitchen's Ventilation

Vent hoods can exhaust smoke, heat, steam and grease from the kitchen environment. Vent hoods assist in fire prevention by helping to contain any cook line fire within the hood cavity
Vent hoods can have fire suppression systems built in and the means to shutoff natural gas supplied to the cook line. By exhausting grease, heat, steam and smoke, vent hoods create a healthier environment for the kitchen staff.

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