17 July 2018
Catering equipment industry is nervous about the future. The mood of the catering equipment industry has swung dramatically from 2017 to 2018, with many more companies feeling that the economy will struggle in the next twelve months. The latest CESA Business Barometer, which surveyed members at the end of Q1 2018, also highlights the change in priorities in terms of what businesses are most concerned about. At the end of 2017 it was price increases and inflation. Now it’s reduced...
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10 July 2018
Experienced Rational director relishes new role. Rational UK has appointed Adam Knights as marketing director. He was previously internal sales director with the company and a key aspect of the new role will be to develop ‘customer lifecycle management’ – in other words, support for the customer throughout the life of their Rational appliance. “The demands that caterers put on their prime cooking appliances are changing all the time as new food ideas, cuisines and trends are developed,” says Knights. ...
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20 June 2018
Matte is back. Plus bowls, shots, colours, copper… and putting the cute into kitchens What’s next in glasses? The answer is shots. What’s next in cutlery? Matte. Next up for kitchens? Purees. How about bars? Outlandish glassware justifying premium prices for drinks. And left field, how about a humane way to dispatch crustaceans? Just some of the ideas that had delegates buzzing at the 2018 CESA LET Forum, held at the Whittlebury Hall Hotel, May 22-23. CESA’s Light Equipment and...
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3 April 2018
Despite tight constraints, ATL delivers prestige project on time, in budget. The Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy factory in Hull builds massive wind turbine blades up to 75 metres long. It’s a growing business and, due to increasing demand, the factory’s catering provision began to develop a serious problem: the canteen couldn’t serve lunch quickly enough to the 300 staff, plus on-site contractors and visitors. The layout of the foodservice area caused such long queues that some people spent most of...
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28 March 2018
Chef Alan Evans says, “it gives you everything… and a little bit more.” When a radical cooking technology comes to market, the best way to find out about it is to see it in action. That’s why FEM has launched a series of live cooking demonstrations for the Vector multi-cook oven, which has been developed in the USA by Alto Shaam. The new concept features up to four cooking chambers in one compact body, using an innovative airflow design to...
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