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Welcome to this months edition of our newsletter.
A couple of weeks of June sunshine and we're already talking about how to keep everything
cold. If it's warm outside it's going to be even hotter inside your catering
trailer. That's when you start to notice that your current refrigeration is not
up to the job, so now's the time to check that your equipment is keeping food
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Maintaining safe food temperatures during transportation
Food items in
transport should always be kept at the recommended safe storage temperature to
comply with food handling and safety regulations. Transporting food safely from
wholesaler to base storage and to and from an event is often overlooked and
should be included in your risk assessment. Not all mobile catering businesses
have the use of
refrigerated vans or cold storage trailers, but not to worry,
cool
boxes have advanced technologically and can run from 12 volts, 230 volts and even
GAS! Plus they're affordable. |
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Suppliers In Focus |
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TEAM REFRIGERATION |
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Need extra portable cool space? The Igloo is a refrigerated trailer with
seamless hygienic panel construction and lightweight. |
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ALLIANCE ONLINE |
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Be sure to keep your produce fresh, cool and ready for use with our large
selection of fridges, freezers and back bar chillers. |
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Business Planning |
Safe food storage during hot spells
Fresh and defrosted frozen foods tend to have a
much shorter life span when it gets warm particularly when hot food sales slow
down and items need to be stored longer. With a little forward planning food
throwaway can be reduced to minimum, for larger events think about hiring a refrigerated van or
trailer.
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Questions to ask...
1. Do you need to defrost all your frozen items
before the event?
2. Can you cook frozen food items straight from frozen?
3. Can you
slow thaw batches of frozen foods by placing them in the fridge?
Measures to keep food items cold...
1. Keep fridge doors closed and avoid repeated opening?
2. Use a separate under counter fridge for local food preparation items?
3. Use a
separate dedicated cold drinks display chiller?
Don't forget, keep chocolate bars in the fridge to
prevent them melting?
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Suppliers In Focus |
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NISBETS |
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Top quality range of great display fridges for showcasing your food and drink,
free standing, tabletop and can and bottle drinks coolers. |
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DRINKSTUFF |
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Low and high output Ice Makers from Whirlpool,
Manitowoc and Hoshizaki. Under counter ice makers with integral storage. |
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Round Up |
Refrigerating and cooling cold drinks from room temperature can take hours and guaranteed customers will want cold drinks from the minute you open your
hatch rather than warm ones. The secret is to plan ahead before your event and
chill your drinks for 24 hours before hand. You will then have ice cold drinks
ready to serve and no complaints from grumbling customers.
You can read more of this article and other useful start up information here.
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