FWE Heated Cabinets & Food Transport Systems

FWE, formally the Food Warming Equipment Company, started in 1948 when founder Oren Klemm built the HOT-SERVE banquet cabinets that let hotels and institutions move hot plated meals in volume. The company incorporated on August 1, 1953, after early orders from names like Hilton, Sheraton, and the Ritz-Carlton. In 1968 FWE introduced the UHS cabinet, the first holding cabinet built to take sheet trays and steam pans in the same unit, and in 1974 it added one of the first low-temperature roast-and-hold ovens. Today FWE manufactures in Portland, Tennessee, under Hatco Corporation as an employee-owned company. At GoFoodservice, we offer FWE heated holding cabinets, banquet carts, cook-and-hold ovens, and mobile serving equipment for hotels, banquet halls, schools, healthcare kitchens, and catering operations.

• Heated holding and proofing cabinets including undercounter and pass-through models that keep plated meals, pizza pans, and trays at serving temperature without drying them out
• Heated banquet carts in the HOT-SERVE tradition, built to roll large counts of pre-plated meals from the kitchen to the ballroom
• Cook and hold ovens that roast at low temperature and then hold, so the same cabinet finishes the protein and waits for service
• Drawer warmers and fry dump stations for the cookline when fries, rolls, or sides have to sit without collapsing
• Meal delivery carts, mobile ice bins, and steam table pan racks for healthcare tray lines, banquet plating, and off-site service
• Portable bars and utility carts that move a full service station onto the event floor

Hotel banquet teams, school kitchens, and caterers buy FWE because the food has to travel. A plated dinner that leaves the kitchen hot still has to look plated when it hits table 40. Moisture control, heavy cabinets, and casters that survive a ballroom corridor are what that job actually takes.

The same line now covers the holding cabinet on a pizza make line, the cook-and-hold oven that replaces a second range, and the portable bar that sets up in a foyer. Food warming equipment is the company's name and its entire purpose: food that leaves the kitchen hot should reach the guest that way.

Browse our selection of FWE heated cabinets and food transport equipment at GoFoodservice and hold food the way it was plated, from the first tray to the last table.