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When Food Network’s The Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond opened her long-awaited Mercantile in downtown Pawhuska, Okla., visitors from around the country waited in lines nearly three hours long to come in, shop and dine. Here’s how The Merc’s extraordinary three-part kitchen design allows cooks to meet and exceed the crowds’ expectations.
Winners of this year’s awards are natural leaders on a quest to leave the industry even better than they found it—one volunteer role after another.
High-tech, high-reliability equipment plus an emphasis on staff training has speeded service times and customer satisfaction at St. Xavier High School, an all-boys private school in Louisville, Ky.
In Syracuse, N.Y., the new nutrition training center at Falk College, part of Syracuse University, features well-equipped cooking stations, a pastry kitchen—and a full-fledged island cooking suite. Here’s how it all fits together.
Five innovative, effective products earned top honors in FER’s 2016 Smallwares Competition: a double-action citrus juicer, an ice cream spade with heft, a multiuse kitchen timer, a pair of product-centric chiller containers and a universal griddle rail.
Gorgeous servingware collections; a pair of wildly different buffet display systems; a heavy-duty griddle rail; and a super-effective handheld citrus juicer are just a few of the 12 new products that achieved the winners’ circle in FER’s 2016 Smallwares & Tabletop Competition.
Pita Pit USA’s new proto features a “reversible” make-line that allows owners to swap two different equipment stations from back to front, depending on demand.
Eye-catching copper barware, an elegant whiskey-tasting set, china-like melamine platters, a graphics-wrapped serving tray, a deep blue pottery collection and not one but two show-stopping buffet display systems comprised the seven winners in FER’s 2016 Tabletop Competition.
At the University of Massachusetts Lowell Campus, the McGauvran Student Center relies on smart adjacencies and shared platform equipment to make the best use of a tight, vertical footprint. At the same time, the design increases dining choices for both the meal-plan and retail dining programs—and puts the project in the running for LEED Gold.
In Arby’s new cooking/sandwich assembly platform, key equipment changes have reduced operating costs, saved energy and improved product quality.
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