Designing a functional kitchen
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You should never neglect the design of Commercial kitchen design. That’s why you should use the services of a kitchen or a management specialist. You could quickly recover the fees you pay:
Improving the efficiency of your operations
By purchasing the appropriate equipment
Reducing energy costs and labor
After well aware of how your food service, the management specialist can offer practical solutions. If your budget does not allow you to use the services of such professional, call on the expertise of manufacturers and suppliers of equipment.
Here are seven key principles for designing exceptional cuisine:
Spatial planning
Often kitchens are designed in haste and we discover at the last minute that no space has been planned for a critical function, for example, storage of food should be stored at room temperature.
Make a detailed list of all the features you need to consider in your kitchen. Then, allocate the appropriate space to each of these functions.
Preparation of food chain
Preparation of food in large quantities
Storage of dry grocery and refrigerated and frozen
Storage of crockery, cutlery and pans
Services Coffee and Tea
Wash dishes and pots
Garbage Cans
Ice Machines
Reception
Offices, locker room and staff toilets
Make sure to allocate space, so that no function was favored over another. The cooking area often occupies the first place and other features are overshadowed by the latter.
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Choose the right equipment
Choose a device whose nature and dimensions suitable for the use you make of it. To choose this equipment, the management specialist must be familiar with the menu and the food service operation. It must also obtain information from the head and the operator of the service, to design a kitchen that meets the needs of the latter peak.
A few minutes should suffice to determine the capacity of all equipment according to your menu. This will allow you to reduce your costs and you will avoid many headaches.
The acquisition of an oversized unit can have consequences just as costly as equipment whose size is insufficient. Cooking appliances whose dimensions exceed your needs will consume more gas and electricity and their operation will be more expensive.
Avoid this trap: Many foodservice operators are buying a grill 36 or 48 inches and not use that half. Unless you are serving a large amount of food cooked on the grill, a unit of 24 inches should generally suffice.



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