"They’ve helped make the dining area ‘a place to be seen’."

Cheshire County Council is setting the standard in school catering facilities. One of the UK’s brightest and most remarkable catering operations is at Macclesfield High School, itself newly opened in September 2007.

The design of the all-new operation at Macclesfield will open most school caterers’ eyes. Serving lunch for up to 800 pupils in a stunningly modern food-court style, it also prepares food - from sandwiches to plated meals - for in-school daytime and evening functions.

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V-Gen : the surprisingly versatile (and budget-stretching) regen trolley

Moffat’s latest V-Gen foodservice trolleys are truly versatile, with numerous options to suit the individual hospital’s needs - and since they can do more than one job, they allow hospital caterers to stretch the budget to the maximum.

The versatility of the V-Gen trolley is based on Moffat’s Chillogen technology. Food is stored, chilled, in the Chillogen cabinet until service is required. The trolley can be programmed to automatically commence the heating cycle at a preset time, or at the push of a button. At that point it starts to regenerate the food to the preferred temperature.

When the hot food is ready, the trolley doubles as a service counter.

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A counter supplied by Moffat Catering Equipment is helping a London Borough to change the way its staff work

The London Borough of Barnet is encouraging its staff to change the way they operate.  By taking a more flexible approach, for example using Wi-Fi and having less formal meeting areas, staff are encouraged to modernise the way they work.

The Atrium is at the heart of the council’s new strategy. Formerly used by Middlesex University, the building houses an airy and attractive open plan area with meeting rooms and offices attached. The catering facilities are a vital part of the strategy, since staff are encouraged to use the café area to work and hold meetings, as well as for networking and relaxing.

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Moffat Versicarte Plus installation gets top marks from Southampton schools

Two of Southampton’s largest primary schools have just had major kitchen and servery installations to bring all their school meals service in-house for the first time. And the head teachers are said to be ‘over the moon’ with the new facilities.

Southampton City Council’s catering department (City Catering) says that key to the success of the installations was Moffat Catering Equipment’s Versicarte Plus mobile servery counters.

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What do you do if you’ve got a piece of award-winning equipment that’s so clever it wins you the FCSI manufacturer of the year award - but it’s so clever that no-one believes it can do what it can do?

That was the problem faced by Moffat Catering Equipment in marketing the Chillogen banqueting trolley - a rapid chiller, a fridge, an oven and a hot cupboard all in one.  “When we actually show a chef the Chillogen trolley, they believe it,” says Moffat sales director Gary Allen, “but until then, they’re sceptical, because it seems so improbable.”

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Moffat’s Chillogen banquet trolleys take the stress out of Christmas catering

Moffat Chillogen trolleys make it easy to cater for Christmas events because they are truly mobile banqueting trolleys that can quick chill, hold and regenerate and hold cooked food - fully automatically and all in the same compartment.

With the Chillogen trolleys it is possible to cater for banquets and functions without stress from even a modest kitchen. A Chillogen trolley and can save space, labour and time during the run-up to the event and it can hold up to 90 ten-inch plates (with covers) on 15 shelves.

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E&R Moffat has been named Outstanding Supplier of the Year for 2007 by LACA, the Local Authority Catering Association. The award, announced on 12th July at the Association’s 2007 conference in Birmingham, is an honour presented annually to a supplier considered to have made significant contributions to school catering in the previous year.

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Banqueting is a stressful form of catering - serving top quality food to hundreds of diners at the same time is a logistical nightmare.  Banqueting expert chef Neil Moore-McCarthy of the Royal Armouries, Leeds, uses Moffat’s Chillogen trolleys to deliver perfect food for events large and small.

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The UK’s newest banqueting venue, Saviles Hall, was opened on 27th June 2007 by Sir Jim himself.  Named in honour of the famous DJ and ‘Fixer’, the Hall features uninterrupted sightlines making it ideal for conferences of up to 1,000 delegates, as well as for banquets and events.

The catering facilities need to be able to serve up 1,000 meals at any one time and have been designed around high tech banqueting trolleys made by British company Moffat.  They combine a rapid chiller, fridge, regen oven and hot cupboard in one ‘box’.  The trolley’s multi-tasking abilities have won awards for Moffat, including the FCSI Manufacturer of the Year.

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Deep frying is the fast, simple and popular method that every caterer needs.  But unless it’s the only item on your menu, few caterers need the ‘full monty’ of floor-standing fryers.  For example, sandwich bars, cafes, even gourmet restaurants, often need a quality deep fryer that is reliable, fast to heat, easy to clean, doesn’t take up space, fits in a corner and runs off a standard power socket.

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