Supplier Deliveries

I have arranged for all of the equipment required for Thursday's instalation at the Stone Barn to be deliveredinto my fabricator for onward delivery to site. This way everything gets delivered at the same time on a timed delivery to avoid waiting round for numerous transit compannies to arrive. The problem is one of my suppliers has let me down. Hopefully I will be able to divert the delivery direct to site for Thursday so we won't be delayed, however, what happens if this is not possible? If the ovens are not able to be delivered until Friday I will have to send an engineer back to site to install, which incurs its own cost. The final payment from the customer will be delayed as copmpletion will not be as promised. So who is going to pay for this? In the past I have little joy from suppliers when trying to get compensation for expense incurred due to delayed or failed deliveries. Hopefully it won't come to that but it does raise an important question as to liability in these cases. I will keep you informed of progress.

Six Burner Ranges as Popular as Ever

Lincat Catering Equipment has noticed a steady increase in sales of the Six Burner Range. This is despite the fact that technological advances in equipment such as combination steam ovens and hot holding equipment offer an alternative method of food production. This coupled with the recent economic downturn would lead most peaople to believe that sales would be diminishing. Lincat offer a number of reasons why the Six Burner Range is a popular as ever ( see full report here http://tinyurl.com/22vllo7 ) , however, I also think another factor is that customers are becoming more discerning and are demanding a higher quality of food than some pubs were getting away with a few years ago. As a result there has been a return to more traditional forms of cooking producing a higher quality food offer. The six burner range (and solid top range) has always been the cornerstone of traditional cooking and thus I have found that I am designing more kitchens with more ranges and fewer with griddles, chargrills, fryers and certainly microwaves. Long may this trend continue and signal the end of the ’snip and ping’ (microwave) cooking that has plagued the pub trade for years.

Lincat enjoys tremendous success with its six burner range due to recent design refinements and overall quality. I know that as a kitchen designer and catering equipment supplier I have every confidence in supplying Lincat's oven ranges.

Soft Play Kitchens

Are you looking into setting up a Childrens Soft Play Centre? If you are then you need to seriously consider what catering you are going to provide. Income from catering sales can make a huge difference to your business so getting it right is crucial. Obviously Pyramid Catering Equipment will be there to help you through the various stages and involving us at an early stage is much preferred, however, I have compiled an article that covers things you need to consider - check it out at:

http://tiny.cc/ovv7d

Owl & Pussycat Kitchen Removal

We stripped out the existing kitchen at the Owl and Pussycat on Monday. Things went well with all equipment successfully removed so that the main contractor can start to get things ready for our new kitchen install. We had to remove the main window in the kitchen to remove the larger items as the main door into the kitchen is too narrow! Obviously the larger items are going to have to go in this way when we install!