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Expand your Menu with a Commercial Panini Press

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

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Eliminate Over- and Undercooking with Sous Vide

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.

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Writing for your Customers

Creating an effective ad can sometimes seem like the most difficult thing in the world. Make it a little simpler, so you can spend more time on projects you actually enjoy, by using these five helpful tips:

Choose a customer base. The first thing that you need to decide is what kind of customer your ad will be appealing to – 50 year old men and teenage girls respond to very different types of advertising, so this is an essential step. Once you’ve decided who your audience will be, you can concentrate your copy on targeting what matters to them – either giving them what they want or solving their problem. Having one audience in mind makes this a much easier task.

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Enjoy a Rob Roy Cocktail on National Scotch Day July 27

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.

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How To Clean and Sanitize Your Ice Machine To Keep it at Peak Performance During Summer Months

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.

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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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Portable Draft Beer Dispenser - The Volition VDD24

The Volition Portable Kegerator is a new and welcome addition in 2016 to the lineup of commercial beer dispensers. If your business is dispensing beer at various events, BBQs, fairs, outdoors and indoor catered events, and you need a beer dispensing system that can handle that level of punishment, look no further. This unit is easy to move, resists scratches and dents and dispenses a perfect, cold glass of beer over and over again. You will be happy with the Volition VDD24 portable kegerator!

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The Very Best Mac and Cheese Recipes

July 7 is National Macaroni day. That said, we could not confirm the source of who actually started National Macaroni day, but considering Americans love of Macaroni and Cheese, we are not going to belabor this point. You should know, the word "macaroni" does not actually mean a curved or elbow shape pasta tube. In fact, “macaroni” refers to a variety of pasta, not the shape. Macaroni is a dry pasta made with durum wheat and made without egg. Macaroni in the U.S. is usually the elbow variety, however, Macaroni in Italy is usually a straight tubular square-ended pasta.

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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.

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