When you are starting a new business venture there are so many other things to consider it is easy to forget something.
Choosing the correct equipment for your food business is part of your success formula and the best time to decide what you want and need is before you design your layout. Missing an important piece of equipment might potentially mean that the exhaust canopy that you ordered is simply too small... a massive and costly mistake.
This checklist makes it simple to record what you have decided upon and covers all areas of the kitchen.
What you need to know
To select the correct equipment you will need to know the following:
- 1. What cuisine? Italian? Chinese? Thai? Bistro style?
- 2. Decide on your menu?
- 3. What is your budget?
- 4. How many covers?
- 5. Size of the Kitchen?
- 6. Healthy Choices? Deep frying versus oven bake etc
- 7. Culture – what do your patrons want?
Getting the Best Design for your New Kitchen Fitout
The best designs still incorporate Food Flow as the primary design element.This means your kitchen should be designed to handle the events that occur as part of food preparation in sequential order. It sounds simple, but you would be surprised to learn how many foodservice facilities are designed without keeping this key principle in mind.
So, let's look at how this concept is applied to the design of a kitchen.
