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Will your KP win you a £12k pass through dishwasher?

3 May 2013

Winterhalter announces extra prize for KP of the year Awards The search is on for the KP of the Year, in a competition backed by Winterhalter, the market leading warewasher manufacturer.  Now Winterhalter has confirmed that, alongside cash and other prizes for the winner, the KP of the Year’s establishment will win a pass-through warewasher worth £12,000.  The warewasher is the new, advanced hood machine being launched by Winterhalter in September 2013. Top chefs have voiced their support for the...

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From MD to KP: Winterhalter boss sweats a shift for Sat Bains

17 April 2013

Kinkead admits he’s unlikely to be candidate for Kitchen Porter of the Year  Being a kitchen porter is one of the most physically demanding jobs in the hospitality market.  Winterhalter has launched a competition to find the KP of the year and, as part of the promotional activity around the event, the company’s managing director, Stephen Kinkead, worked as a KP at Sat Bains’ restaurant in Nottingham. 

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Is the Kitchen Porter of the Year working in your kitchen?

8 April 2013

Winterhalter’s competition gets support from leading chefs Warewashing specialist Winterhalter has launched a competition to find the Kitchen Porter of the Year. “Kitchen Porters are the Cinderellas of the catering kitchen, doing the work no-one else wants to do,” says Stephen Kinkead, managing director of Winterhalter UK . “Without them, who would clean, carry, scrub, scrape, operate warewashers, stack dishes…? They are the backbone of the foodservice industry.  What’s more, many of them go on to great things, as chefs,...

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What’s the KPP rating of your dishwasher?

21 May 2012

One Winterhalter MTR2 equals just over seven kitchen porters It’s generally recognised that a modern warewasher is going to be quicker at washing dishes than a kitchen porter – but by how much? Recently Winterhalter went to the busy Cafe in the Crypt restaurant underneath St Martin’s in the Field Church, Trafalgar Square, London to pit the in-house Winterhalter MTR2 against a kitchen porter to properly measure kitchen porter power (KPP).

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