1 September 2014
American bakery’s Winterhalter Bistro washes cups, plates and glasses, all at once When it comes to cupcakes, The Hummingbird Bakery wrote the book, literally. It’s the longest-established American-style bakery in the UK, with six outlets, all in Greater London. The Hummingbird Bakery was the first company to bring American cupcakes to British consumers and founder Tarek Malouf has written three cookbooks, the most recent of which resides in the hardback non-fiction chart. It sells in the region of 1.25 million...
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21 August 2014
Winterhalter launches high-performance, eco-friendly cleaning chemicals range BLUe is the name of Winterhalter’s new range of environment-friendly cleaning chemicals, which are formulated to deliver results that match or better traditional chemicals. What’s more, they cost virtually the same as non-eco versions.
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14 August 2014
Winterhalter’s new passthrough warewashers deliver huge time-savings Winterhalter’s latest PT series of passthrough warewashers has new systems that make them extra fast, cutting wash times and increasing capacity. The EnergyLight system reduces the time needed to heat up the rinse water by 26%, by continuously pre-heating the incoming water supply. At the same time it cuts running costs, because it uses the energy in the machine’s wastewater to heat the inlet water, via a heat exchanger. Meanwhile the PT has...
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18 July 2014
KP of the Year competition triggers memories of the kitchen porter years… The KP of the Year competition, sponsored by Winterhalter, is all about celebrating the contribution that kitchen porters make to the hospitality industry. Lots of top chefs and foodservice operators started out as KPs – and there are plenty of captains of industry throughout the catering sector who began their working life scrubbing floors and washing dishes. Take Peter Kitchin, managing director of C&C Catering Equipment, the multi-award...
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16 July 2014
Advice on looking after fashionable glassware In the parts of East London where they like to set a trend rather than follow one, there’s a newfound love for a traditional pub favourite. Turns out that old-school beer jugs with dimpled glass are making a comeback. While this is great for the nostalgic, it’s not necessarily so good for bar staff.
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