What Equipment Do I Need For My Catering Business?

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Don’t underestimate how much equipment you need to start and continually run a successful catering business, whether this is from the comfort of your own home or from a rented facility.

Ultimately, the type of equipment you need will always depend on the type of food you are cooking and the amount of people you need to feed.

Certain meals and menus will be incredibly easy to prepare in large amounts, such as sandwiches or large stews, however, others will require more specialised cooking and preparation methods.

The Basics

For the most basic catering operations, you’ll need refrigerators to keep supplies fresh, storage space for your stock, cooking equipment (including an oven, hob, fryer, and maybe a grill) and general food preparation and serving equipment like chafing trays.

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Folding Crates

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Folding Crates are an easy way of making the most of your storage needs. You can use them to store crockery and glassware, either on your business premises or if you’re transporting items to a different venue. One reason why our folding crates are so useful is that not only are they ventilated, which avoids odours getting trapped, but also, they are of course, collapsible. This means that when you’re not using the crates, they can be stored to save you storage capacity and add to your transport space.

The crates are ergonomically designed, making it simpler for you to carry heavier goods with ease and confidence. Made from industrial-grade High Density Polyethylene (HDPE), our crates are made to take way more impact than the budget polypropylene boxes out there.

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What you need to know about Catering Equipment Transport Trolleys

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Transport Dollies are an easy way of moving heavy objects and large quantities of items without exerting yourself too much. They are a functional way of moving glasses, chinaware and other products from place to place both inside and outside. We also call them Transport Trolleys. All our trolleys come with four swivel wheels that make them easy to move.

We have a wide variety of transport dollies available to make it easier for you to move things from A to B in no time at all. Depending on what you need, you can choose from different priced and sized dollies that are sure to save you space and strain!

Our dishwasher rack dolly is 500x500mm and compatible with our dishwasher trays, racks and baskets. They’re a great solution for a busy kitchen or catering business on the go. We’ve also got a fantastic timesaving dishwasher trolley with a drip tray. It’s great for those times when you don’t want to wait for your glasses and chinaware to dry in the dishwasher.

If your business deals in larger volume catering, you may need to handle heavier loads. That’s where our heavy-duty dolly trolley comes in. Very stable with a load-bearing capacity of 250 kg, suitable for Euro Containers 600x400mm and 400x300mm. You’ll be able to transport heavier items or larger quantity items without causing yourself an injury. We also have an incredible space-saving commercial dishwasher rack cart. It’s narrow and tall and will hold two fully loaded stacks of 500x500mm Caterbox Dishwasher Racks. There are two steering rollers and two rollers with fixes breaks that will keep the racks secure when they’re on the move.

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Dishwasher Cutlery Rack Or Dishwasher Cutlery Basket?

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If you are considering buying a dishwasher cutlery rack for your catering establishment, there are a number of different choices. A dishwasher cutlery rack is also known as a dishwasher cutlery tray, but of course you can also get dishwasher cutlery baskets as well.

Whether you go for a dishwasher cutlery rack or a basket, the most important thing is how well the container permits the cutlery to be washed and dried. Some people consider that cutlery racks don’t allow for thorough cleaning and report that this is the case. However, how well the rack does or does not clean the utensils will depend on the design of it.

If you use a dishwasher cutlery basket the utensils should always be put into it pointing downwards. This is for reasons of safety as much as anything else because if they point upwards you can cut your hand if are careless when removing them after cleaning. It is also safer from a health point of view because you have germs and bacteria on your hands, so you want to minimise any contact with the part of the utensil which is going to come into contact with the food. It also means that you won’t get any smudges on the shiny knife blades.

dishwasher cutlery rack

Another point about having the handles uppermost is that it is simply easier to grab them by the handles for putting into the cutlery drawer.

In order to obtain maximum cleaning power, you also need to avoid cutlery nesting together. To achieve this, you need to mix the cutlery up in the sections of the basket. If you have all the spoons in one basket, for example, they can slip into one another and not receive the full power of the wash. Nor will they dry properly.  

Some items should never be put into the dishwasher and these include chef’s knives. They are made of high carbon steel and can corrode in the dishwasher. Neither should wooden spoons be put in the dishwasher because the detergent will eat into the wood, and the damp and heat can cause them to warp. Both these items should be washed by hand.

Some Things To Consider When Thinking About Storage For Your Business

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Keeping things tidy around your business is important: you need to be able to find things quickly when you need them, yet at the same time keep them out of the way when you don’t. One of the best ways of storing many items is to use storage containers, and preferably ones that can stack one on top of another so that they can save you a lot of floor space. Even better is to use nest stacking containers which have slightly angled sides so that when they are empty, they can sit one inside another: this saves as much as 75% of floor space. Nest stacking containers are also ideal if you have to carry out a lot of deliveries and collect the empty boxes later. You might have to deliver four van loads when they are full, but you can bring all the empty containers back on one van, saving a lot of time and fuel.

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When considering purchasing nest stacking containers, there are some things that you need to think about before rushing out and buying them. It may seem obvious to say this, but you need to ensure that the containers that you buy are fit for purpose – not too big and not too small.

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Some Of The Uses Of Stackable Plastic Boxes

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Euro stackable plastic boxes are suitable for nearly all manufacturing and service industries. They are ideal for many food preparation and pharmaceutical products because they have smooth sides and are very easy indeed to clean. Since they are made of plastic, no microbes or bacteria can get into the surface. Non-food manufacturers will often use the larger stackable plastic boxes for products, while the smaller ones are used for small parts and fixings.

Service sector uses include outside catering, engineering service kits, police scene of crime use, hospital sterile services, food delivery to takeaways, greengrocery displays, and many more uses. Euro size containers are available with solid sides or ventilated sides, the ventilated ones often being chosen because it is easy to see what is inside each box. Furthermore, when used for food storage in refrigerators or freezers, they allow the cold air to distribute evenly throughout the container and the contents to chill down to the desired temperature faster.

Since these stackable plastic boxes are Euro size, they fit exactly on to both Euro pallets and UK pallets, so the 600mm x 400mm boxes stack in four columns on the standard 1200mm x 800mm Euro pallets and five on the UK pallets which are 1200mm x 1000 mm. You can also get half size boxes of 400mm x 300mm, quarter size of 300mm x 200mm, and double size boxes of 800mm x 600mm.

These containers are available in a range of different colours which is another method of identifying the contents, and they can also have different coloured coding clips which snap on to them for the same purpose. In addition, the containers can have a range of different inserts which fit into them for a variety of different purposes. For example, in the outside catering sector there are many different sizes of glasses which are used, and they can also be of different heights. Inserts can be chosen so that they exactly fit a particular size of glass which prevents them from rattling around and getting broken during transport, and some manufacturers have a way of extending the height of the containers so that they can be adjusted vertically as well.

The Fries Rack Glass Rack System

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If you are looking for a bar glass rack there are many different choices, a lot of them contained within the Fries Rack System. Fries is an Austrian company that is a specialist in the manufacture of boxes and containers for the catering industry and has designed a wide range of different containers for various purposes, including storage, washing and drying, and transport.

One bar glass rack system that Fries has produced is the Clixrack 500 glass rack which is simple to put together without any tools, and furthermore, is adjustable. It is available with a range of extenders which simply clip into place and this means that you can easily extend the height of the racks to fit any sort of glass that you are using.

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How to keep glasses clean and protected

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Do you ever find yourself moving quicker than the speed of light to get event hire orders out the door?

Allocating stock, washing glasses, packing, stacking and moving storage boxes. Then load it all on to a vehicle all without breaking a single glass? Sometimes something has to give and it’s usually a glass or two, which can be frustrating to replace.

A lot of our event hire customers have added a simple accessory into thier conveyor crates for a quick solution. Antibacterial net! This clear rubber glassware crate liner fits our 600 x 400mm glassware storage crates and protects the glasses rims from getting chipped whilst being dropped into the compartment. It also helps reduce moment and prevent additional breakage whilst the crates on the move and being handled. Our glassware storage crates with anti-bacterial net help keep glassware protected while keeping them clean. These full size ventilated euro crates come in various heights to store glasses in just the right space efficiently. preventing storage space being wasted on oversized storage boxes.

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A look at our attached-lid container range

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Designed to provide any business with a more secure and space-saving option for storing glass, china, or other items. These containers are ergonomic, making it easier for you to hold the crates without any accidents.

The boxes are heavy-duty and can be stacked when full, or nest when they’re empty. You can save up to 78% on space, whether you’re storing goods or transporting them to a different location.

Made from polypropylene, our products can withstand terrifically cold temperatures and the heat too. They have an impressive temperature resistance, ranging from -20°C to -80°C. The best part is that these lidded containers are also durable and impact resistant. So, whatever you’re storing will be protected from breakages, dust and dirt.

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Fries Bar Glass Racks Have Many Benefits

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In the catering industry there is a lot of glassware used – especially in pubs and bars, but also in restaurants, cafes, hotels, and any other venue that has a bar, such as a theatre, private men’s club, and so on. Unfortunately, one thing that all glassware has in common is that it is breakable – some more so than others. For instance, the traditional dimpled pint and half pint beer mugs are fairly solid, and can stand a bit of rough handling, but you won’t get away with that with a champagne flute.

Furthermore, in the outside catering industry all this glassware has to be transported from one venue to another and it has to arrive in one piece. This is why the Fries Rack System provides a bar glass rack that can be used for both washing and transporting glassware.

The Fries bar glass rack comes in two different models, the Clixrack 500 and the Customrack 500. The Clixrack 500 is so called because you can assemble it by hand without any tools and it is available in no less than eleven standard heights from 73mm to 260mm. The Customrack bar glass rack can be customised to the height of the glasses to be stored, transported, and washed.

The very open rack design means that the glasses are perfectly washed because it lets the water get to all points, and it also means that the glasses will dry faster. In addition, you can also get an insert which tilts the glasses so that the water will drain off the bottoms.

The Fries racks are lightweight and ergonomic and have side handles for easy carrying and also have rounded edges. The open design means that it is easy to see which glasses are in which rack and you can also get the racks in one of seven different colours, so it makes it easy to put the glasses in the correct rack.

In addition, the racks are stackable and have a duplex bottom, the upper bottom holding the glasses, while the lower one acts as a crosspiece which ensures that the rack remains stable when in transit.