Business

What Type Of Fridge Freezers Are Right For Your Restaurant?

Whether it’s a colossal walk-in refrigerator or a tiny cooler, refrigeration systems are a crucial component of a restaurant. It is therefore important to select the appropriate type of refrigeration for your business that will help safeguard an efficiently run kitchen.

As with choosing the best cutlery, commercial ware washers, or catering suppliers, there are numerous factors to consider when making your choice, including the amount of space in your business to accommodate your refrigeration, the frequency of deliveries (daily deliveries mean you won’t need much refrigeration space), the delivery schedule of your food providers, and the type of food your business provides. For example, if your food offerings are based on frozen selections, then you’ll require adequate freezer space.

Click here for further information about why selecting the most suitable refrigeration is important. Once you are aware of your business’s needs, you are ready to select refrigeration from the different types below.

Walk-in Cooler

These can vary greatly in size and are great at storing larger perishable items such as boxes of produce and blocks of cheese. Be aware that walk-in coolers require food-grade storage shelves, and floors and walls must be covered.

Reach-in Cooler

These are predominately located in the restaurant’s kitchen or bar. Reach-in coolers usually consist of two or three doors, with staff reaching in for items, and work best away from the heat of the cooking line to maintain the correct holding temperature.

Refrigeration Drawers

These are more commonly known as fish drawers and are under-counter refrigerators that store fish, poultry, and meat. Their design means they can be fitted directly into the cooking line, – perfect for compact restaurant kitchens.

Restaurant Freezers

These are similar to coolers, as they can be walk-ins or reach-ins and store all frozen items except for ice. Businesses should invest in an ice machine instead, such as the ones found at.

Restaurant Bar Refrigeration

Bar refrigeration devices are often referred to as low boys (coolers found near the ground) or high boys (those that are approximately waist level). These coolers can be used to store a range of bottled and canned beverages, including bar mixers, bottled beers, and white and rosé wine. Beer kegs are kept in separate types of refrigeration such as in kegerators or walk-in refrigerators.

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Lifestyle

Breakfast At Tiffany’s Becomes A Reality

Fifty-six years after the movie’s cinema release, shoppers on New York’s famous Fifth Avenue can order breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Tiffany & Co., the luxury jeweler popularised by the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s, opened its café this month as part of its Manhattan flagship store’s renovation.

Holly Golightly, the film’s protagonist, gazed longingly into the store’s windows as she bit into a pastry. Unlike the character, shoppers can now dine within the store.

The Blue Box Café

Named after their famous Tiffany gift boxes, the Blue Box Café specializes in American cuisine and is located on the fourth floor, overlooking the picturesque Central Park. The café is decorated in the company’s robin egg blue, its signature shade, and features new home accessories from Tiffany’s own range.

Wall decorations include chrome figurines and diamonds for an authentic Tiffany & Co. experience.

Those lucky enough to have dined here claim it is an unforgettable experience, adding to New York’s magical appeal and becoming an essential landmark for tourists visiting the city.

Breakfast and lunch cost $29 and $39 respectively and consist of two courses. The extremely popular café was fully booked on its opening day. The Blue Box Café is an ideal pitstop after browsing the store for high-end jewellery and homewares.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

The film, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, is based on the novella of the same name by Truman Capote, published in 1958. The story, which is written from the point of view of a narrator, tells the story of a girl from the country who relocates to New York and frolics in high society.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s was nominated for three Oscars, including Audrey Hepburn for the lead role, and it won an award for best music score.

In 2012, the film was also added to the National Film Registry in the Library of Congress in the US. This registry is comprised of movies that represent historic and important artistic and cultural achievements in filmmaking.

This helped cement its position as one of the best-loved movies of all time. Fans of the film have traveled far and wide to arrive in New York and have breakfast at Tiffany’s.

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Tech

Why Are Women Under-Represented In Web Development?

A leading North West creative director and university lecturer, Andy Golpys, has called on digital businesses to assist more women into high-growth tech careers.

In 2016, figures showed that 50,000 girls were turning their backs on STEM subjects every year. A comprehensive study carried out by PwC revealed that just 3pc of females had marked tech careers as their initial choice. Only 5pc of women currently hold leadership positions in tech industries.

Mr Golpys, who is the co-founder of MadeByShape, a web design studio in the North West, said that he wanted to bring his experience to bear, along with insights from primary players in the Northern digital sector, to challenge the industry to bring in more female developers.

Issues begin at study stage

He said that his experience as a digital university lecturer had revealed that, when graphic design students came to choose a focus discipline – such as photography and illustration, or animation and web design, around 50pc chose web design. Of these, however, only a small minority were female.

He asked his colleagues in the digital sector, to identify what was holding back this challenge to diversity, asking whether greater communication into the size and growth potential of the digital industry needed to be delivered to students and whether salaries and benefits needed to be reviewed to see why they weren’t appealing to women.

He explained that females were pursuing graphic design qualifications in large numbers, which meant that there must be a blocker that prevented similar numbers from selecting web design as their focus, rather than print design which is becoming less highly demanded.

Positive changes ahead?

Golpys did say that he had noticed early signs of positive changes in the last two years, with sector figureheads rolling out communication and engagement activity to help encourage more women into digital roles. He said that at MadeByShape, students and graduates of both sexes were invited to work with the designers on live briefs, to develop their skills and abilities on the job.

Graduates looking to work at a professional web development company in London, are able to apply for MadeByShape internships that boost their employability.

With the digital skills gap growing and with women still heavily underrepresented in the tech industry, there is a challenge ahead for digital businesses, policymakers and educators alike.

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