Category: Restaurant Supplies

How An Efficient Kitchen Can Help You Beat Inflation in Your Restaurant

Beat inflation with energy efficient restaurant equipment and appliances.
Inflation and restaurants are more closely linked than ever, as rising costs in food, utilities, and labor continue to pressure the foodservice industry. Inflation is impacting nearly every aspect of our lives, and restaurant owners are feeling the squeeze. While many expenses are beyond your control, there is one area where you can take charge and start seeing real savings: your kitchen equipment.

In this blog, we’ll explore how investing in energy-efficient and multi-functional kitchen equipment can help combat the challenges of inflation and restaurants, allowing you to reduce costs and keep operations running smoothly. Continue reading How An Efficient Kitchen Can Help You Beat Inflation in Your Restaurant

Trending Cake Decorating Techniques & Tips

Learn all about modern cake decorating styles

TikTok, the home of viral food videos, is awash with pastry art. Creators, with millions of views, design realistic cakes disguised as shoes, phones, everyday devices, and even other foods. Meanwhile, other netizen bakers showcase eye-catching methods of piping, layering, designing, and decorating desserts.

It turns out it’s not too hard to create a head-turning, modern dessert, but you do need the right equipment to get started. Here are some trending dessert decorating styles and how you can recreate them in your home or commercial kitchen.
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Restaurant Gear for Crafting Perfect Asian Dishes

Restaurants can use woks, ranges and turners, and to make Asian cuisine.It’s 2024 and the world’s a village. Young Americans love to explore international cultures and flavors. Millions of young Americans listen to Korean-origin pop music (Kpop), consume Japanese-origin anime, learn Mandarin Chinese on Duolingo, and go out for Vietnamese cuisine. In the culinary world, global flavors and international cuisines are also trending, and diners look for exciting or novel flavors from other countries. Some of the most popular cuisines are from East Asia. A recent study found that Chinese, Thai, Korean, and Japanese were among the most Googled cuisines.

If your restaurant is looking to serve up dishes from East Asia, you need the proper equipment to make your Asian food dishes taste authentic and cook to perfection. Here, we will delve into some of the most popular flavors and the tools that are necessary to make Asian food, so you can start serving some popular global cuisines at your establishment. Continue reading Restaurant Gear for Crafting Perfect Asian Dishes

How to Craft a Savory Mixed Drink or Food-Inspired Cocktail

Restaurants are serving up a new trend- savory mixed drinks and cocktails.
Thai Beef, Caprese Salad, Pizza Pie, and Everything Bagels: What do these foods all have in common? In this case, it’s that the four aren’t just food dishes. Rather, they are also flavors of savory alcoholic beverages inspired by a new culinary trend that’s shaking up bars and restaurants world-wide. The trend is called savory cocktails, and allows mixologists to explore the full extent of their creativity in the quest to find unexpected, food-inspired flavors to” drinkify.”

A Brief History of the Cocktail

How the culinary world came to the point of adding ghee and miso to its mixed drinks is an interesting story. If you go back to the origin of the word “cocktail,” when it first appeared in the early 19th century, it referred to a drink made up of sugar, water, bitters, and of course, liquor. By the 1870’s the concept of a sweet, fruity, alcoholic drink had become so popular that Connecticut native, Jerry Thomas, wrote “The Bartender’s Guide,” which popularized recipes for the Manhattan, Mint Julep, and Brandy Punch, but, what really helped the cocktail industry take off was the creation of better supply chains for bringing ice to warm areas. Somehow, cocktails survived the prohibition era, making a comeback during the mid-20th century, when interest in Hawaiian and Polynesian culture brought rum-based drinks to the forefront. Continue reading How to Craft a Savory Mixed Drink or Food-Inspired Cocktail

Ingredients for Making the Perfect Pizza

The art of making the perfect pizza.
Stand on a random corner in New York City and open your favorite food-delivery app. You can probably find more than a dozen places to order pizza from. But, it wasn’t always like that. Legend has it that Italian immigrant, Gennaro Lombardi, opened the first pizzeria in the United States in 1905. Back then, pizza in America was a niche product, catering mostly to Italian-American immigrants craving the flavors of the old country. Today, just over a century later, the pizza industry is a massive $45 billion dollar business. It is estimated that Americans consume 350 gooey, saucy, cheesy pizza slices every second.

There’s no doubt that pizza is a lucrative, sought after, and growing industry. If you are a restaurateur looking to add a classic New York-style slice or a Neapolitian personal pie to your menu, it’s not difficult to get started. All you need is dough, sauce, toppings, and an oven optimized for baking crispy pizza to perfection. Here’s how to achieve that ideal symphony of flavors, ingredients, and baking techniques that your customers will love. Continue reading Ingredients for Making the Perfect Pizza

Tips for Tapping Into Better Beer Sales

Boost beer profits with craft beers and learn about other updated beer marketing strategies.

Looking for new ways to improve your bar, brewery, bistro, or restaurant’s beer program? Beer continues to be one of the strongest beverage categories in foodservice, and today’s customers are looking for more than familiar labels and a standard happy hour. Seasonal releases, local favorites, rotating taps, and memorable experiences all create opportunities to increase sales and keep guests coming back.

The good news is that boosting beer revenue does not require a complete overhaul. Small changes to your menu, promotions, customer experience, and day-to-day operations can make a noticeable difference. If you are ready to refresh your approach, here are practical tips to strengthen your beer business.

Build a Balanced Beer Selection

One of the easiest ways to improve beer sales is to make sure customers have enough choice without overwhelming them. A strong beer menu usually includes a mix of dependable best sellers alongside local, seasonal, or limited-time options.
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How to Reduce Food Waste in Commercial Kitchens

Tips for Reducing Food Waste in the Food-Service Business

Food waste has long been an unfortunate byproduct of commercial kitchens, including both restaurant and catering kitchens. Organizations such as the Food Waste Reduction Alliance (FWRA),continue working toward reducing food waste with the dual goal of shrinking our environmental footprint and helping feed those in need. So, what can you do to reduce waste in your commercial kitchen? Read on.

What is Food Waste?

The sources of food waste are many and varied. Food waste is generated by consumers and the foodservice industry, including restaurants, catering companies, cafeterias, and institutional kitchens, but it can also occur during manufacturing and distribution. In commercial kitchens, food waste often includes ingredients that spoil before they are used, food prepared incorrectly, leftovers from customers’ plates, and excess trimmings during food preparation. Even small amounts of waste can quickly add up in a busy kitchen, leading to unnecessary food costs and larger environmental concerns.

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Why the Right Chafing Dish is Essential to Every Catered Buffet

Quality Chafing Dishes: A Must for All Caterers

All About Chafing Dishes

A chafing dish (from the French word, chauffer, which means “to make warm”) is a portable and essential piece of equipment in the food industry. For catering businesses, the chafing dish is the foundation of any food presentation. They are also essential in restaurants that specialize in buffets with hot dishes. Chafing dishes (a.k.a. chafers) are made to keep food warm – from two to six hours – and they are the most affordable and convenient way to heat your delicious buffet items.

What is a Chafing Dish?

A chafing dish is a multi-layered apparatus: it uses chafing fuel to heat a large, shallow pan of water, which in turn heats a pan of food above it. The food in the pan stays hot, and the indirect heat, along with the water, keeps it from scorching or drying out. Electric chafers and induction chafers are other types of chafing dishes that don’t use fuel, but still use water as a medium to transfer heat, and are great for permanent buffets (like in restaurants).

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Choosing the Right Takeout Containers for Your Restaurant

The Best Takeout Containers for Your Restaurant

A Guide to Takeout Containers

In today’s mobile society, even the most elegant restaurant has to be prepared for the takeout crowd. Today, smart restaurant owners make it easy to order and pay for takeaway food with the help of apps, smartphones, and online ordering systems. What this means, though, is that restaurants have to be stocked with a steady supply of takeout containers.

Take-out containers have come a long way from the bulky white Styrofoam boxes of years gone by. In recent years, the demand for a new and improved travel food container has graced us with a variety of sizes, shapes, and materials – including reusable containers – and the trick is finding the right ones for your business.

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How the Right Wine Glass Can Enhance Your Wine Tasting Experience

How to Choose the Right Wine Glass – and Does it Matter

Do Proper Wine Glasses Really Matter

Most wine aficionados will tell you that the glassware we drink our wine from is almost as important as the wine we put into it. The wine glass you use – its shape, material and size, – will have a considerable impact on your wine-drinking experience. So if you are the average wine drinker looking to stock your liquor cabinet with wine glasses for the reds, whites, and bubblies that you drink regularly, you will want a supply of glasses to fit those types of wines. . So, let’s explore how choosing the right wine glass can enhance your wine-drinking experience.

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