Things To Look Out For When Buying A Commercial Dishwasher

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When you need to buy a commercial dishwasher, there are a number of things to take into consideration. It is not a cheap investment, so you need to be sure to get the right type for your requirements. There is no “one size fits all” when it comes to dishwashers, and with many dishwashers in operation all day, every day, you need to get one that can handle the load.

The first thing to consider is the type of dishwasher that you need. If you run a small bar or pub, an undercounter dishwasher is a great idea when you are short on space. However, above counter types can produce greater productivity for larger businesses. Rack type washers are best for larger operations such as contract catering or sports stadiums. However, for the small to medium sized business, hood type models will be best.

You also need to consider getting a model that is the right size for the number of items it is going to have to wash. In addition, it is necessary to take into account the size and shape of your tableware. Speed of operation is another matter. Different models run at different speeds and you need to be sure that the model you choose can handle the number of items to be washed in a given time frame.

Another important factor is the tabling. You really need to think of ware washing as a system, rather than just a machine. You need to have sufficient tabling for incoming ware to be pre-rinsed and stacked as it comes in, and so that it can be washed and dried and taken out at the other end without everyone tripping over each other.

Another item is the accessories. Dishwashing racks are not universal in size, so you need to have a variety on hand, depending on what is to be washed. For example, a dishwasher basket for cutlery may only be small, while larger throughput might require a cutlery rack. You can get a single dishwasher basket for cutlery if you only have a small amount, but you can also get a dishwasher basket for cutlery with multiple sections if you have a larger throughput.

Loading the dishwasher correctly is important. Plates, glasses, cups, cutlery, and so on, come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, so whoever is loading the dishwasher will need to choose the right baskets or racks, which is why it is necessary to have a variety to hand.

Then there is the question of water. 60% of the UK has hard water, and a water softener will treat the water either before or as it enters the machine. Some machines also have a de-lime cycle which will help to keep the heating elements clean and contribute to the longevity of the washer.

How to Store Food in Fridges and Freezers Using Ventilated Euro Containers

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When you’re running a busy warehouse or stock room, finding the appropriate storage for various categories of items can be difficult. Especially when handling fresh or frozen foods, it’s essential to find containers that can protect the products and keep them fresh in the right conditions. Ventilated Euro Containers are a great way to store large amounts of frozen goods. But what makes them a suitable choice?

What are Euro Containers?

Euro Containers are heavy-duty plastic euro boxes. They are designed to stack for maximal volume and capitalize on additional space with their vertical sides. The Euro Container was designed to transport European wooden pallets and hence got its name. They were the first type of plastic boxes to replace the cardboard box.

Their versatile, stackable design makes them popular storage options for busy storage rooms where space is limited. And thanks to their heavy-duty design, they are suited to transport. If you’re storing items in fridges and freezers, however, and deal with perishable foods, closed Euro Containers should not be your choice.

The Risks of Using the Wrong Fridge Storage

Storing perishable food in closed boxes with a fridge or freezer could lead to unfortunate consequences. Closed boxes don’t allow the air to flow and enable moisture to build up, which could hasten the decay of the item. It may also prevent the fridge from cooling the food consistently and maintaining the right temperature, or it may slow down the cooling process.

Ventilated Euro Containers are Suitable for Fridges and Freezers

Ventilated Euro Containers are ideal to use with fridges and freezers. This makes them the right storage choice for food warehouses, food distribution, and restaurants and shops storing their ingredients and wares. They can also be great for keeping and transporting food at home. The stackable design makes them an ideal storage solution for small cellars and pantries.

These boxes have ventilation grids down the sides to allow for airflow. This also promotes speed cooling and helps maintain a consistent temperature. Due to this, damp is less likely to build up, and liquids can drain quickly.

Just like ordinary euro containers, the ventilated variance can be outfitted with dividers that make it easier to store different products and keep them in place during transit.

What are These Containers Made of?

Our Ventilated Euro Containers are made from food-grade HDPE polyethene. This allows the box to withstand temperatures from -40°C TO +70°C. The material is hygienic as well as heat and chemical resistant.

Get Ventilated Euro Containers to Keep Perishable Items Safe

If you’re looking to organize your walk-in fridge or freezer while safely storing perishable foods, look no further than ventilated euro containers. Choose companies that provides high-quality products that are made in Germany and are available in a variety of sizes with bespoke solutions possible. Shop at volume to receive additional discounts.

What to Consider Before Buying Storage Boxes

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If you’re looking to purchase storage boxes for your warehouse, storage room or restaurant, you may be looking at a significant investment. Before you buy, take a moment to consider your requirements and future needs to help you find the best deal on storage boxes.

When you make your buying decision, here’s what you should consider getting the most value out of your purchase.

Purchase High-Quality Storage Boxes

It’s easy to be tempted by cheap offers, but storage boxes experience a great strain every day. When you choose a product, make sure it is fit for the contents it is likely to lift. This might mean getting heavy-duty boxes with industry grade material. When buying storage boxes, it is better to make a safe investment than to lose products or having to replace the boxes too soon. 

Our heavy-duty storage boxes and euro containers are made from HD polypropylene and can resist a variety of temperatures.

Evaluate The Storage Purpose and Requirements

There are many different storage boxes available for a variety of purposes. Failing to evaluate your exact requirements could result in you having to purchase another box, run out of space, and/or increase the risk of it breaking.

So when you decide on what storage boxes to get, keep in mind the following questions:

Will You Store Items at High or Low Temperatures?

If you’re looking to store items inside of freezers, within a warm kitchen or in storage units with high-temperature fluctuations, you need to choose storage boxes that will withhold those temperatures. Our boxes can commonly withstand temperatures from -20°C TO +80°C.

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What Storage Boxes Do You Need for Your Catering Business?

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When you’re starting out in catering, boxes might be the last thing on your mind. But soon enough, the benefit of having sorted out reliable storage solutions becomes evident.

Not only do you have to stack fragile glassware, but transporting trays of food and stacks of plates can be a cumbersome business – especially in large quantities. So what volume of storage boxes could make your work easier?

Euro Containers

These stacking containers are a reliable industry staple and get their name from the ability to stack upon and fill a euro-pallet. These boxes are highly durable and can store and transport almost anything! Caterbox offers Euro Boxes crafted in Germany from highly durable, industry-grade and food-safe Polypropylene and are suitable for dish washing.

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Choosing the Right Glassware Storage Box

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When it comes to moving and storing glassware, the cardboard box the glass came with will only go so far to protect your glasses. Overtime the box will fall apart and the glassware will not have the protection it needs. If your glassware is constantly on the move you will need a Glassware Storage Box that is fit for the job. 

Choosing the right Glassware Storage Box is easy with Caterbox as we have the worlds largest range of Stackable Storage Boxes to choose from. When your boxes arrive you will find your chosen box will be almost custom made for your glassware. Maximising the boxes capacity and saving space. 

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Everyday Help on Wheels: The Benefits of Transport Dollies

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If you have a catering business, you’re likely to have to haul heavy loads from A to B regularly. Luckily, there’s a solution that we’re going to reveal to you that should solve the majority of these logistics issues – the transport dolly with brakes. Let’s explore some of the benefits…

Easy to Manoeuvre

If you’ve ever worked in an environment that requires moving stuff around in enclosed spaces, you’ll know how hard that is. Things can break, jobs might be delayed, and it can create a queue of other tasks that need doing.

However, with the help of a transport dolly, things might go smoother. You can stack papers, books, materials, breakable objects, and similar items in one convenient place and move them around. The dolly’s wheels make moving things around faster and more secure than a person carrying those same items. One example of this is our Conveyor Rack Euro Dolly. With its aluminium frame and zinc plated steel wheels these 600mm trolleys are very sturdy.

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Points Up Or Points Down? You’ve Been Doing It All Wrong!

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Here is something that you never knew! There is a right way and a wrong way to stack your dishwasher basket for cutlery, and the likelihood is that you have been doing it all wrong.

Very many people stack the dishwasher basket for cutlery with the knife blades and fork prongs pointing upwards, but that is completely wrong. The simple fact is that loading the basket with the points and prongs upwards means that there is a very good chance of stabbing yourself in the finger or hand when you try to grab them to remove them.

All right, you would have trouble hurting yourself on a spoon, whichever way up it was, but grabbing a knife blade can cause a nasty injury, especially if it has a serrated edge as many cook knives do. The points of forks and the blades of kitchen scissors can also be damaging. It can cause problems in the home kitchen, but in commercial premises where time is of the essence and the knives and forks may be needed again shortly, it is all too easy to grab hold of them the wrong way.

Another point is that when the cutlery is loaded points and prongs down, and the spoons also, it is simply a lot easier to grab them by the handle rather than the other end. When you put them in the drawer, you need the handles towards the front so that you can pick them up easily again when they are required for the table. If you pick them up by the point/prongs or whatever in one hand, you are going to have to put them into the other hand which will hold them by the handles for putting them away so that everything is facing in the right direction when they are next needed.

There is also the question of hygiene. The sharp bits are those which come into contact with the food and if you pick them up by those parts, bacteria and germs on your hands can get transferred to them and thence to the food. Furthermore, your hands and fingers can cause smudges on the blades of knives in particular, which doesn’t look good on a restaurant table – or on any table for that matter.

When loading the dishwasher basket for cutlery you should avoid having all the same items in a particular section. They should be mixed up – knives, forks, spoons, and so on – because otherwise they can nest together, and this can result in the items not being properly washed and cleaned. Mixing them up allows the water to get to all the various surfaces.

Things To Consider When Purchasing Storage Boxes

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If you are looking for heavy duty storage boxes, there are a few things to take into consideration. The first of these is the size of the items that you need to store vis-a-vis the amount of storage space that you have available. It might seem obvious, but if you only have small items that need to be stored, you won’t need very large heavy duty storage boxes. Equally, if you need to store larger items, such as A4 files, you need to make sure that the boxes are big enough to cope. Boxes that are too large will have items rattling around in them while at the same time taking up more space in your warehouse or store than they need to. Too small, and you will need more boxes.

Stacking containers are another consideration. If you have containers that you can stack one on top of another, you can store several of them while still only using the floor space that would be taken up by a single box. This is great, until you realise that there is a problem, and that is that you are always going to want to get to something in the bottom box! The answer is to buy heavy duty storage boxes with open fronts so that you can always easily get to what you need.

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Make Sure You Select the Right Type of Storage Boxes For Your Needs

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When you have a business that requires you to run any sort of event, whether it’s a competition, an annual general meeting, a presentation of your products, a dance class, a history lecture, or anything else at all, you almost always have a lot of “stuff” that you need to transport to the venue in which it is being held. Even if it is held on your own premises, if it is not a one-off, there will be things that you need to store and re-use. If you hold the event four times a year or only once a year you need to be able to access all the bits and pieces that you need quickly and easily.

Of course, the more events you hold the more “stuff” you have. These could be notepads and pens for attendees, lanyards for your staff, booklets, small samples of a product, and much, much, more.

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How to Win New Clients for Your Catering Business

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The catering industry has a great deal of potential for new businesses who can target the right markets. However, there are also a huge amount of competitors who are all trying to make a name for themselves.

To cut through the noise, we’ve outlined a few ways to brand and market yourself so you can win the kind of clients you want.

Sampling and tester sessions

An old trick but a good one. Let your potential buyers develop a taste for what you can offer for free and start building up exposure in your market. Whether you are setting up a tasting stall at a wedding fair, giving samples to people on the street or delivering food to people’s desks, this is a great way to show people you can deliver quality food.

As long as you are cooking to impress and make a big impression, as well as following up with marketing materials and contact details, this is a worthwhile tactic that can generate significant returns.

Visit an exhibition

Another old route to bagging some high value clients is visiting one of the many catering and hospitality exhibitions throughout the UK. As well promoting your brand to other businesses and potential clients, you can make some great contacts with suppliers, manufacturers and providers of catering services that complement your own. This would be a great place to find suppliers of folding crates storage and other useful storage solutions for your business.

Mobile catering

Even if your business is not a mobile catering operation, you could easily rent a food trailer or truck for a week for special events to increase brand exposure. As well as creating a hype and excitement around your company, whether you are at festivals or a London market, you can use it as a great promotional piece on your social networks – showing people that your business has character.

Invest in photography

There are thousands of amateur food photographers out there these days, but despite this, it is a very well sought after skill that is worth investing in. Don’t just ask your niece/nephew to take photos on their iPhone of your equipment in folding crates storage or stock from the kitchens, instead, hire a professional to truly get your brand’s quality and look and feel across to your audience by taking photos of fully prepared meals on the plate.

Be your own brand ambassador

Get on your LinkedIn and any other social network platform you use and start marketing your company to your followers. Don’t be shy. Tell people what you are up to and how your catering business is attending various events or functions.

You don’t need to post a tweet every hour, just update people when you have completed a successful job, or even post some interesting culinary snaps of you and your team in your day-to-day catering environment amongst your folding crates storage and chafing trays – people like authentic!