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Commercial Smoker Guide
A commercial smoker comes down to three decisions: how it makes heat and smoke, how many pounds of meat it has to hold on your busiest day, and where it can legally stand. Wood pellet smokers burn pellets for both heat and smoke a...
Pizza Box Sizes and Dimensions
A pizza box is named for the pizza it carries: a 12-inch box holds a 12-inch pie, and a 16-inch box holds a 16-inch pie. Square corrugated boxes run from small personal sizes up to extra large, in two depths, and round molded fibe...
Aluminum Foil Pan Sizes: Dimensions and Capacities
Aluminum foil pans come in three families: steam table pans that follow the same full, half and third sizes as metal hotel pans; bakery pans for loaves, pies, tarts and cakes; and to-go containers in round, oblong and compartment ...
Food Thermometer Guide
A food thermometer in a commercial kitchen has to be accurate to within 2°F, calibrated as often as its maker requires, and fitted with a thin probe for thin foods such as burger patties and fish fillets. Those are FDA Food Code r...
Restaurant Glassware Types Guide
Restaurant glassware sorts into four families: beverage tumblers for water and soft drinks, cocktail glasses for anything with spirits in it, stemware for wine and sparkling wine, and the specialty pieces for beer, coffee and casu...
Food Date Labeling Guide
Ready-to-eat food that needs time and temperature control for safety, kept refrigerated and held longer than 24 hours, must be marked with the day it has to be used or thrown away, and it gets seven days at 41°F or colder, countin...
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Commercial Ice Machine Troubleshooting
An ice machine that stops making ice rarely announces why. Here is the good news hiding inside that bad day: most "broken" commercial ice machines are not broken at all - they are dirty, hot, starved for water, or overdue for a fi...
How Long Do Commercial Ice Machines Last?
Ice is the one product a foodservice operation sells every single day, and the machine that makes it rarely fails at a convenient time. The honest answer to how long a commercial ice machine lasts: with regular cleaning and good w...
What Makes a Restaurant Accessible?
Restaurant accessibility is easy to oversimplify. People often reduce it to a ramp at the entrance or one accessible parking space, but guests experience accessibility through the whole visit: arrival, entry, seating, ordering, re...
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