Commercial Food Warmers & Holding Equipment

Customers want their food hot and fresh, whether it is a slice of pizza, a bowl of soup, or a complete meal. Professional hot food warming equipment enables you to keep precooked food perfectly hot and the overall quality intact at all times. From food warmers to hot food display cases, there is always a holding and warming solution for all your menu items.

If you make large amounts of dough on a daily basis, holding and proofing cabinets will help you ensure consistency and quality across each one. Proofing cabinets provide ample space that provides the best possible environment for the final rise of the dough. Holding cabinets can be used to keep them perfectly warm for longer periods or until they are ready for use. Many models combine both functionalities to save money and space. If you also perform dough retarding, there are retarder cabinets specifically engineered to accomplish this with precision and ease while giving you total control over the process. These cabinets are available in undercounter, reach-in, roll-in, and pass-thru styles to fit your specific needs.

Available in gas and electric styles, steam tables and food wells can create an attractive spread of fresh dishes at buffets, catered events, banquets, and other foodservice operations that require a display of food for guests to see. These units are specifically designed to hold cooked food that straight out of the kitchen at ideal serving temperatures so that it can be enjoyed at any time of the day. Steam tables and food wells can fit standard-sized pans and can have multiple pans so you can arrange an array of dishes in a complete station. There are drop-in and freestanding styles as well as specialized units such as ice-cooled drop-in food wells and induction hot food wells.

Tray and dish dispensers ensure that you always have a clean, hot plate or tray ready to serve meals quickly. These units hold a stack of plates or trays that can be grabbed safely one by one while keeping the rest of the stack concealed and safe from breakage. There are heated and unheated units that you can choose from. The heated dispensers offer additional protection on your serveware by reducing the thermal shock when plating the food. There are mobile and drop-in units that can be used in restaurants, catered events, buffet lines, hotels, and many more foodservice operations. There are also cups and glasses dispensers to ensure fresh drinks on tap as well as dispensers for syrup and hot food to complete your service line.

Serving counters create a consolidated station for assembling and serving orders to your customers. They are available in a wide variety of sizes and configurations to help you achieve the ideal space to meet customer needs. The top lets you display multiple pans of food kept either hot or cold for extended periods to maintain quality and taste throughout the day. There are also frost top serving counters and ice cream serving counters perfect for delivering great-tasting desserts. There are also modular units that can help you customize your counter to your exacting needs.

Customers can best enjoy your culinary creations in their “just cooked” quality, but when your restaurant gets busy, you need heated holding cabinets to help you keep up with the demand and still deliver fresh food to your hungry guests. Warming drawers are great for keeping pans of food hot. For pizzas, you can’t go wrong with thermal delivery heaters. For gentle and slow cooking, a bain-marie is an excellent choice. If you have to precook food in large batches, you can store them in the freezer using vacuum-sealed bags, which can then be directly thawed and brought to proper serving temperature using a rethermalizer, saving you precious time. Cook and hold ovens are an excellent addition to any kitchen looking to get more functionality out of a small space. They can help you cook meals and keep them hot until they are ready to serve.

If you are looking for a way to keep food fresh and mobile, consider adding portable food holding equipment to your operation. These units provide a safe environment for storing food at ideal temperatures, and they can do so without being held to one place only. Mobile cooking carts, portable bars, and mobile buffet tables help you bring the food and drinks to guests for speedier service they will surely appreciate. There are also innovative refrigerated and heated containers as well as freezer containers that offer a small and lightweight space for items that require consistent temperatures during transport.

Heat lamps provide an easy and convenient way to make sure that freshly cooked food stays hot until it reaches the customer table. The units provide overhead heating using bulbs or heating elements. Heat lamp bulbs can have up to three bulbs and also light up the products for added presentation, which makes them ideal for food displays such as buffets and catered events. Heat lamp strips, on the other hand, can have single or multiple rows of heaters that are metal-sheathed or made of ceramic or halogen. They can also be lighted to suit front-of-the-house use.