Every New Restaurant Kitchen Should Include This Equipment For Optimized Productivity And Profits
Posted on: 8 March 2019
Designing the kitchen is one of the most important aspects of opening up a new restaurant. Without a well functioning kitchen in place, you'll likely find it hard to keep your customers happy in the coming months and years. Here is some restaurant equipment that should be included in your new kitchen to help optimize productivity levels and profit margins as time goes on:
A Walk-in Freezer
One important piece of equipment that shouldn't be overlooked while designing your new restaurant kitchen is a walk-in freezer. While a chest freezer might be enough space to keep your products frozen now, you'll likely have a need to expand your storage space as your restaurant grows and attracts more guests. And there are only so many chest freezers you can fit in your kitchen space. Installing a walk-in freezer now will help ensure that you already have the storage space you need as your kitchen demands grow in the coming years – which should save some time, money, and inconvenience when all is said and done.
A Steaming Station
Incorporating a steaming station into your new restaurant kitchen's design will give your chefs the ability to prepare foods in bulk and keep them fresh until they're served to customers, which will help reduce food waste and increase your kitchen's profit margins overall. Things like rice, mashed potatoes, gravy, and steamed vegetables can be prepared in big batches and kept in the steamer until customers order those foods. Your customers will get served quicker and your chefs won't have to worry about making too much or too little food when it gets ordered.
A Slicing Machine
By investing in a slicing machine, you can cut all of your meats and cheeses in-house and save some money over buying pre-sliced products. You can cut your own sandwich meats, steak cuts, cheese chunks, and even slices of bread and cut out the middle man altogether. Slicing food products yourself will also help ensure that the foods you are serving to your customers is always prepared freshly on a daily basis.
A Storage Labeling System
A storage labeling system won't help save time or money when it comes to actually preparing your food, but it will help you reduce food waste and therefore money on your food costs overall. When a food is prepared for future use, it should be clearly labeled so your kitchen crew knows when it should be tossed out if it hasn't been used yet.
And the labeling will help ensure that everyone knows exactly what is in each container that's being stored in your refrigeration and freezing system. Your storage labeling system should include a tabletop space to use for labeling purposes, a rack to store storage containers on, and draws to keep labeling supplies in.
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