Since 2006, the number of women-owned restaurants has increased by 40%, compared to a 12% growth in overall restaurant business during that same period. In other words, restaurants owned by women grew at a rate three-times faster than the industry as a whole. The restaurant industry is a place where women have a relatively clear path to success. Inspirational stories abound of women starting at the bottom and moving quickly into management and ownership positions.
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.
Take some of the hassle out of maintaining your commercial refrigeration products with Turbo Air. Turbo Air’s new refrigeration line(including reach-ins, undercounter units, prep tables, worktop units, chef bases,and more) now includes a self-cleaning condenser that takes convenience to a whole new level. Condensers normally are cleaned only twice a year, and a lot
of debris can build up over that time, reducing the efficiency of your condenser and possibly even causing your commercial refrigerator to break down. The self-cleaning condenser system works to prevent this strain on both your condenser and your budget by cleaning the condenser 2-3 times a day. It operates by using a rotating brush designed to move along the condenser coils automatically, which will remove any dust and other debris that has accumulated.
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.
Whether it’s seasoned curly fries with a hamburger
dinner or cheese curds to snack on over a beer with friends, fried foods
have been shown time and again to be a perfect addition to any meal. If you are
in the food service industry, having fried foods on your menu is a great way to
increase your profits and keep your customers wanting more. As summer ends, state fairs and other festivals are also coming to a close, meaning your customers are going to be missing some of their favorite fair foods. Fill that void and try something new with your deep fat fryer using inspiration from some of the Iowa State Fair’s most beloved concoctions.
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.
The ability to quickly toast your sandwiches or wraps without needing a massive grill is an invaluable one, and allows you to increase the variety of your menu items without a ton of extra cost. Simply stick your regular sandwiches on a restaurant panini press, and voila, you have a new item your customers will love.
Commercial panini presses come with either flat or grooved plates to ensure your needs are met. The flat plates will give you a faster result with a more even distribution of both ingredients and heat, and the grooved plates will provide you with aesthetic grill marks, but may result in your ingredients not being as evenly distributed. Start taking advantage of the many benefits offered by the commercial panini press today
Thought to be independently invented in the 1970’s by two French chefs, sous vide (meaning “under vacuum” in French) has just recently started gaining the popularity it deserves in both commercial and residential kitchens.Utilizing both the unique cooking advantages of water and the oxygen-free environment of vacuum-sealed plastic bags, sous vide provides a precision cooking technique that ensures delicious results every time.Sous vide cooking offers many benefits that make it a worthwhile (and affordable) addition to your kitchen.
