Different Types of Restaurant Equipment

<p>Before we explain the term "restaurant equipment", it is necessary to understand term "restaurant" itself. For the purpose of this article, a restaurant could be any place serving or selling food and drinks and could include bars, snack bars, bakeries, cafes, restaurants, bistros, hotels, delicatessens, patisseries - not to forget informal eating-places such as clubs, canteens, convenience stores, takeaways, petrol stations, and raw food sellers like butcheries, malls and fruit markets.</p><p><br></p><p>Running a restaurant is perhaps the most demanding job of all. It is like walking on a tightrope. Of all the service-oriented industries, a restaurant demands the highest point of service. Restaurants are highly dependent on the patronage from customers so it is incumbent upon them to serve the customers in the best possible manner. A single incident of bad dish or bad service can invite the wrath of the customers and ruin their reputation.</p><p><br></p><p>Since restaurants are connected with the most basic need of humans - food and drinks - they need to take considerable care in sorting, cleaning, storing, preserving, processing, preparing, cooking and serving it. In order to carry the business efficiently, they need hundreds of different restaurant equipment, kitchenware, tools and utensils in different categories - hand-operated, automatic, semi-automatic, mechanical and electric.</p><p><br></p><p>The range of restaurant equipment indispensable to launch a restaurant is extremely wide. The type of equipment will depend on the type of eatery described above. A bakery, for example, requires equipment such as dough mixer, dough sheeter, bread slicer, ovens, automatic depositor, prover, and baking utensils (cake tins, moulds, baking plates). An <a href="https://www.bqcooling.com/product" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>ice cream machine</strong></a> is necessary for ice cream vendors and soda fountains. There are different types of ice cream machine, such as <a href="https://www.bqcooling.com/fried-ice-cream-machine" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>fried ice cream machine</strong></a>, soft serve ice cream machine, hard ice cream machine, popsicle machine, etc.</p><p><img src="https://img5785.weyesimg.com/uploads/srmlwnmd8sf.allweyes.com/images/15586654926431.jpg?imageView2/2/w/1000/q/75/format/webp" alt="Fried ice cream machine BQF217"></p><p>It is very tough to categorise restaurant equipment. Generally, items such as refrigerators, freezers, and chest freezers are the equipment common to all types of eateries.</p><p><br></p><p>Most restaurants however cannot work without:</p><p><br></p><p>&nbsp;Cooking equipment such as ovens, hot plate, cooking range, burner, griller, fryer, cook top, pasta cooker, rice cooker, steamer, kettles, etc.</p>