With the Daily Express reporting that we are just a few short days away from the hottest summer in 100 years, it makes sense to check if your business is fully prepared for the scorching season ahead.
It is being reported that we are likely to see temperatures of at least 30°C at the start of June! With the rest of the summer hotting up even further!
Longer, hotter days mean people are more likely to venture outdoors and a cracking outdoor space to sit, drink and eat is an enticing prospect.
It’s probably about time to get your business set to cash-in on the summer season, but are you summer ready?
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The award-winning manufacturer Meiko has recently launched a brand new line of dishwashers and glasswashers.
Officially unveiled at Hotelympia, the UPster range contains premium warewashing appliances at a reasonable price point.
Comprising of one dedicated glasswasher, two glasswashers/dishwashers, four pass-through dishwashers (two of which are shortened models for space-limited areas), and two rack transport machines, this innovative range is perfect for any business that wishes to maximise their budget.
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Inspired by their previous work creating bespoke, high-end installations, Iglu has created a tailored range of refrigerated displays.
Launched at the world famous Host Exhibition in Milan last year, their Mirabilia System comprises of ten specialist displays, each perfectly created to suit a different type of food or beverage. Each item has been designed in coordination with renowned chefs and industry professionals.
With more and more establishments opting to showcase their fresh produce in front-of-house locations, Iglu’s Mirabilia collection is the perfect marriage of aesthetics, functionality and quality that premium restaurants and bars require.
Initially, we will be providing three different models: Royal, Cheese and Diana. Each unit is made to order, giving you the opportunity to co-create a refrigerated display that is at one with both your menu and your décor.
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Whenever a story appears about a particular type of food, it tends to fall into one of two categories: Either it is bad for you, and its consumption should be limited or avoided altogether, or it is beneficial to our overall health.
Over the years, chocolate has flittered between the two camps. Sure, strictly speaking, it is bad for you – no respected health professional is going to propose a chocolate-heavy diet – but there are some positives to having an occasional bite in moderation.
Now, however, there appears to be definitive proof that chocolate does actually help boost brainpower.
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It is only a couple of weeks until Rational’s award-winning Cooking Live event returns to Leeds.
Hosted by accredited chefs, this hands-on demonstration day is free to attend and should not to be missed.
Held at Elland Road, attendees will get the chance to see Rational’s range of combination ovens in action. Also, you will get the chance to ask questions and find out how these market-leading appliances can transform your commercial kitchen.
Book your place today, through CS Catering Equipment.
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A Rational SelfCookingCentre combination oven (Rational SCC) can do it all. This market-leading appliance is one of the most popular items of catering equipment that we sell, and with good reason too: Not only can it grill, roast, blanch and poach, but it also acts as your very own assistant that is capable of adapting to individual situations in order to guarantee constant results.
This market-leading appliance is one of the most popular items of catering equipment that we sell, and with good reason too: Not only can it grill, roast, blanch and poach, but it also acts as your very own assistant that is capable of adapting to individual situations in order to guarantee constant results.
The results of over four decade’s worth of research by Rational, these appliances have been developed by professionals for professionals.
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In January, the Germans celebrate their domestic-grown apples whilst Indians get to let off the firecrackers and pay homage to Undhiyu, a delicious vegetarian-friendly dish that is a speciality of Gujarat. In total, January has over fifteen internationally, nationally and locally recognised food days, but that number is just a fraction compared to the other eleven months of the year.
Take February, for example. This month started with National Tater Tot Day, featured Ice Cream for Breakfast Day (our absolute favourite) and typically ends with National Chocolate Soufflé Day on the 29th.
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It is officially the Christmas season. Unless you’ve been living underneath a rather large rock recently, you’ll know that coffee shop chains have started adding seasonal syrups to their drinks and one well-known British retailer has launched their annual festive advert to (as usual) widespread acclaim.
But before you know it, Christmas is out of the way and the New Year is upon us. The past twelve months has seen the avocado rise to prominence, the continued growth of pop-up stalls and street food vendors, and it has been the year when plates (literally) went out of the window in favour of shovels, sinks and terracotta plant pots.
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Taking place this week and now in its eleventh year, Chocolate Week has become one of the nation’s favourite food-themed weeks. The whole seven day cocoa bonanza has seen tasting sessions and events take place across the length and breadth of the country and it all concludes this weekend with the annual Chocolate Show London, which will be held at the Olympia National Hall.
Organised by the duo of Sylvie Douce and Francois Jeantet, the celebration’s showpiece event originally took place in Paris. But due to the show’s popularity (and people’s natural affinity to chocolate) the Chocolate Show expanded to cities around the world including Moscow, New York, Tokyo, Cairo and London, attracting some 6.5 million visitors in the process.
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Nobody quite knows exactly when it began, or what motivated the first tomato to be thrown across the streets of Bunol. Not that anybody complains now mind, given that the annual tomato festival, headlined by a massive food fight, draws in the crowds and revenue to the generally sleepy Spanish town. Importantly though, it’s a lot of fun.
Today (26th August), La Tomatina takes place. This year’s event is (believed to be) the 70th anniversary of the event and thousands of people are expected to gather together in the narrow streets of Bunol, throw tomatoes around, generally get messy and then jump in one of the rivers that intersects the town to try and clean up a little.
Like we said, it’s a lot of fun.
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Damien Wilde