It’s business as usual with Container Kitchen Systems temporary modules

Hotel refurbishment raises the question of whether to keep the premises open during the alterations or to close down and suffer the loss of revenue and risk losing customer loyalty. Most places prefer to stay open and try to keep the disruption to a minimum. One area that can cause severe headaches during refurbishment is the kitchen - the engine room behind any hospitality operation.

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When sausage and mash cafe group S & M decided to appear at Glastonbury they knew they needed a kitchen capable of turning out loads of top notch food from the middle of a muddy field - so they turned to temporary kitchen specialist CKS.

S & M claim to provide "the world’s number one comfort food" - the perfect pick me up for the crew and staff working in the mud and rain of Glastonbury 2007!

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Container Kitchen Systems’ temporary modules keep patients fed during refurbishment

It is now recognised that hospital food plays an important part in patient care. Fresh, well cooked and nicely presented food encourages patients to eat well and get the nutrients they need to recover from surgery and serious illness. It can even decrease the amount of time they need to spend in hospital.

Hospital catering is going through major changes with moves towards offering more flexible menu options, 24 hour catering and the raising of nutritional standards. So hospitals are now taking a new look at their catering facilities and making plans for the refurbishment necessary to meet new objectives.

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Container Kitchen Systems’ temporary kitchen modules. Catering where you want it.

Summer is all about big outside events from society and celebrity weddings and birthdays, fund-raising garden parties, sporting events through to over-nighters such as music festivals. One thing all these need is catering on a big scale, often in places where there are no conventional kitchens.

The British are following the lead of the Americans and increasingly looking for interesting and unusual locations for weddings such as the beach, woodland, or other romantic sites. Container Kitchen Systems is finding that this has upped the number of enquires about their smallest kitchen module.

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It’s easy to overlook the need for adequate cold storage in refurbishment plans. There’s the kitchen itself to think about, menu options to tweak, staff to be looked after and customers to be reassured that it’s business as usual. So, when an operation is pushed to its limits it’s not surprising that something gets forgotten.

Container Kitchen Systems (CKS) aims to make sure that during refurbishment or during peak busy periods establishments don’t fall short when it comes to cold storage. CKS can deliver and install the temporary cold store modules at extremely short notice. They can be delivered and up and running within a few hours of ordering.

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SEEING IS BELIEVING - CKS SHOWS HOW EASY IT IS TO INSTALL A TEMPORARY KITCHEN

Some people just don’t believe how easy it can be to get a temporary kitchen delivered and up and running. But Container Kitchen Systems’ (CKS) modular kitchens are simple to manoeuvre into the tightest of spaces. The company is taking advantage of the website YouTube to post up a video of one of its ‘medium’ sized kitchens being manhandled into position for the Brighton 2007 RAC rally.

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Temporary kitchen modules from Container Kitchen Systems help Putteridge Bury Conference Centre overcome utility problems

Conference Centres are busy places designed so that delegates can get down to business without having to be troubled with the day’s arrangements. Everything has to run smoothly and on time. Bookings are taken months if not years in advance so if there is a problem that threatens the scheduling of events a solution has to be found that will not inconvenience users or incur cancellations.

Putteridge Bury Conference Centre , part of the University of Bedfordshire , was up against just such a predicament in May 2007 when it had problems with the gas supply to its main catering facilities. Putteridge Bury is a converted neo-Elizabethan mansion built in 1911 in the style of Chequers. Set in picturesque parkland Putteridge Bury Conference Centre hosts conferences, corporate and social events, wedding receptions, civil ceremonies and Christmas parties.

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Special ‘Christmas kitchens’ are solution for perennial holiday capacity problem

Temporary staff are often recruited in December to cope with the surge in bookings for parties, functions and general seasonal good cheer.   But it’s a fact of life that most kitchens can’t be expanded so easily to cope with the Christmas rush.

In these situations, hiring a complete temporary kitchen is the simplest way of adding space and boosting kitchen output.  Yet many caterers fight shy of taking the temporary option over the holiday period, because they worry about disrupting routine.

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New CKS website makes life easier for caterers with personalised accounts and full catalogue online

If you’re a caterer, facilities manager or foodservice consultant and you need a temporary kitchen, the chances are you’ll want an idea of cost before you progress too far. But up till now getting even an initial quote has taken time.

The new CKS website offers an online ‘quote me’ feature - all the user does is fill in a quick form and hit the button, and the site automatically generates a ‘ballpark’ quote. It means you can get a quick figure fast, without spending precious hours. Once you’ve made a decision, you can go back to the quote and finalize it to get a precise figure.

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Not so long ago cooking was hailed as the new rock and roll, but now rock is calling the tunes.  The popularity of music festivals has given temporary kitchen specialists like CKS (Container Kitchen Systems) something of the role of the roadie – keeping the show on the road and the stars fed and watered.

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