Cabinets Provide Fast Track For Fast Food

FEM supplies Prince Castle dedicated holding bins – the ideal fast food platform

Most high-volume restaurants and fast-food sites need to hold cooked menu items so they are ready for serving as soon as an order is placed. But although customers want their food straightaway they don’t want it to taste or look as if it has been hanging around – only peas should be mushy!

Foodservice Equipment Marketing (FEM) supplies Prince Castle dedicated holding bins that are designed specifically to hold cooked food for up to two hours with no loss of flavour or texture. The Prince Castle bins are a better alternative to steam cabinets and heat lamps. They can hold both fried and non-fried foods in the same cabinet with no sogginess or drying out.

The cabinets use a special heating technology known as Reli-A-Temp that has three distinct heating methods to keep the food in perfect condition. Infrared energy from the top of the cabinet penetrates right through the menu items maintaining the correct internal temperatures. Conductive heat generated in the base of the cabinet is transferred to the food through direct contact. Finally, warm air is circulated around the food containers to prevent heat loss.

In this way the food is held in perfect conditions. Fried foods are held in an ‘open environment’, without covers, allowing moisture to escape, keeping the outside crisp while the inside stays juicy and moist. Non-fried foods are held in a ‘closed environment’, i.e. covered, to keep in the foods’ natural moisture and prevent flavour being washed away.

To further maximise serving efficiency the Prince Castle holding bins can be fitted with a Menutrak food supervision system. This management system was developed for some of the world’s busiest fast-food restaurants. Alphanumeric displays on the front of the cabinets identify where up to six different menu items are located. Hold times can be tracked and alerts sent when food needs to be discarded or more product cooked.

The Prince Castle bins are supplied with a one-year parts and on-site labour warranty.

For more information and details of local stockists call FEM on 01355 244111, email sales@fem.co.uk or visit www.fem.co.uk

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Foodservice Equipment Marketing Ltd

Foodservice Equipment Marketing Ltd (FEM) is based in East Kilbride near Glasgow, Scotland. Since 1993 the company has represented leading foodservice equipment manufacturers in the UK and Irish markets. Over the years FEM has established partnership agreements with many of the industry’s top brands in both smallwares and equipment, including Vollrath, Manitowoc, Cambro, Probbax, Prince Castle and Hamilton Beach. In 2003 FEM moved into manufacturing when it acquired Wardpark Gardner. FEM manufactures the Fortius brand of commercial cooking equipment.