High-tech cleaning for a high class hotel

Winterhalter helping Michael Caines’ new venture build shining reputation

Overlooking the mouth of the Exe estuary, Lympstone Manor is a Grade-2 listed Georgian manor house that has been transformed into a refined, contemporary hotel and restaurant by owner, Michael Caines MBE. One of Britain’s most celebrated chefs, Michael’s career has seen him hold two Michelin stars for eighteen consecutive years at Gidleigh Park.

His ambitions for this new venture include gaining a third one. “Be assured, Lympstone Manor will be one of the best hotel/restaurants in the UK and Europe. I am aiming at the top echelon!” (more…)

Connect with Winterhalter at Restaurant Show 2017

Stand CE30, 2-4 October 2017, Olympia, London

At this year’s Restaurant Show, Winterhalter will be showing how a connected warewashing system can revolutionise the professional kitchen, as well as delivering flawless wash results, time after time.

On stand CE30, visitors can see how networking Winterhalter’s warewashers, through the company’s new Connected Wash system, provides more continuity and efficiency in the kitchen – or in multiple kitchens. It makes warewashing more efficient, reliable and controllable. (more…)

Care Home warewashing: top quality, low cost package now includes online monitoring

Operators can check how machines are operating; Connected Wash also helps cut energy costs

Winterhalter’s Pay-Per-Wash scheme is changing the way care homes fund their warewashing: it gives users a machine, chemicals, machine service and customer support for a fixed pay-per-wash fee of as little as 26.2p. Now Winterhalter has made it even more attractive by bundling in its Connected Wash package as part of the scheme, for free. (more…)

70 Years of Winterhalter:

Ingenuity, internationalisation and a focus on the future

Winterhalter, the warewashing specialist based in Meckenbeuren, Germany, is celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2017. For three generations this family-run company has stood for quality and reliability in the kitchen, and over the last 70 years it has led the market with its technical innovations.

The company was founded in 1947 by Karl Winterhalter, whose first big seller was the Backhexe (baking wizard), a portable electric oven. The development of the first dishwashers took place in the family home, with a garden shed used as the workshop. Jürgen Winterhalter, son of the company founder and current joint CEO of the Winterhalter Group, remembers the testing process: “My mother used to rub plates with spinach and leave them to dry in the sun. Then we’d wash them in the machine, and they actually ended up clean. It fascinated me.” The company’s success story had begun and the GS 60 dishwasher was launched in 1959. “My father’s message to restaurants was, ‘you can have clean dishes in the shortest possible time’ – and they loved it!” says Jürgen. The popularity of the Winterhalter dishwashers led to mass production and the eventual development of additional manufacturing plants in Endingen (Germany) and Rüthi (Switzerland). (more…)

Danny Gill puts some buzz into catering recruitment

Danny Gill and Will Hodson urge chefs to run pop-up kitchen restaurants in schools

Take twelve 15 year old students and a couple of passionate chefs with Michelin experience, add a lightbulb idea, give them a kitchen for a day and what do you have? Apart from a lot of hard work and a lot of fun, you have a possible solution to the catering industry’s skills shortage, with six of the twelve wanting to work in restaurants.

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Winterhalter relaunches service division

Kieran Lynch joins as managing director of expanding service operation

Winterhalter UK is to relaunch its service operation as a separate division within the company. The move is part of Winterhalter’s plans to expand its service operation into new areas, whilst continuing to provide first class national coverage to existing warewash customers.

As a key part of the initiative, Winterhalter has appointed a managing director, Kieran Lynch, for the service division. He will also join the board of Winterhalter UK. (more…)

Sanitising warewasher for care homes – and there’s no upfront cost

Winterhalter’s UC machines with thermal disinfection programme available with Pay Per Wash

For care homes, sanitisation is an essential. Winterhalter’s UC undercounter machines are available with a thermal disinfection option – and care homes can now install them under the Pay Per Wash initiative, which means there’s no upfront cost, operators simply pay for each wash as they go along.

The UC is a front-loading machine that’s available in four different sizes, small, medium, large and extra-large. The thermal disinfection wash cycle meets the HMT2030 regulations by washing at 73ºC for 3 minutes, delivering total hygiene control. Using this wash programme, the UC can handle up to 10 racks per hour, with the racks ranging in size from 400x400mm in the small model to 500x540mm in the extra-large. When the thermal disinfection programme is not required, the UC can handle up to 48 racks per hour. Its compact size means it can fit into small kitchens, while its high output means it can wash quickly and effectively. (more…)

Heathrow’s 11th hour Winterhalter arrives airside on schedule

Fast, effective cleaning power is a hit with The Commission T4 bar restaurant

Airedale sources, delivers and installs warewasher in under 24 hours

Installing a restaurant kitchen in Heathrow is a complex business – especially if it’s ‘airside’. The Commission by Drake & Morgan is a new, 175-seater restaurant and cocktail bar operated by hospitality and food service company Delaware North and sited in Terminal 4. For the Airedale Group, who managed the project, the complexity was somewhat aggravated by the fact that the install period was cut from ten days to three, due to building delays. The situation got even worse when, on day three, at the 11^th hour, suddenly a new dishwasher had to be sourced and installed. (more…)

Snap your KP on 22 June – KP day helps raise cash for the Springboard Charity

Winterhalter is giving £1 for every KP snap!

22 June 2017 is National KP Day, when the kitchen brigade gets to have a bit of fun and raise cash for Springboard, the charity that helps young and disadvantaged people gain employment in the hospitality industry.

Got a great kitchen porter in your kitchen? Or one with a sense of humour? Then take a photo of them and tweet it with the hashtag #kpday. For every tweet, warewasher specialist Winterhalter will give £1 to Springboard, up to a maximum of £1,000. (more…)

Is the KP of the Year working in YOUR kitchen?

Winterhalter offers prizes worth £10k+ in annual awards

The 2017 KP of the Year Awards have been launched and the search is on for the best kitchen porter in the land. The awards are the brainchild of Winterhalter, the market leader in commercial warewashers. Managing director Stephen Kinkead is encouraging entrants from all sectors of the industry. “In previous years we’ve had entries from schools, stadia and snack bars, pubs and prisons, hotels and hospitals, restaurants and residential homes, barracks and banquet caterers… even the Houses of Parliament,” he says. “Everyone’s a winner, as every entrant receives a presentation tin containing a special KP apron.” (more…)

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