When dining out, one typically expects to have a fairly pleasant experience. However, every once in a while, the dining adventure ends up in a slightly more negative manner. My personal pet peeve when I’m dining out is running out of beverage before I am finished with my meal and having a waiter / waitress that just seems to simply ignore me, even when I am ready to leave and am just waiting on the check. My co-workers have a few different issues that really bother them at a restaurant, such as a rude or obnoxious wait staff, foods that are not prepared up to expectation, and messing up an order.
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22
Oct
Cooking with the ComboEase
Many of you already know the many benefits of cooking with a combi oven, yet Groen has decided to take it one step further with the ComboEase. This powerful oven is easy to learn how to use, operate, and even easier to maintain. Groen made this combi oven truly affordable, without asking you to sacrifice quality or brand. This full-size combi oven is also an eco-friendly appliance, making it great for your business, your wallet, and the environment.
In order to properly use the ComboEase oven, Groen has provided a list of tips to make each cooking method extremely efficient and successful for you and your guests / customers. Follow these tips to create amazingly delicious food with each use:
Pierogi is a dish that consists of either boiled or baked dumplings (depending on the recipe) of unleavened dough that can be stuffed with various types of ingredients. Typically, pierogi are a semicircular shape, but can be seen in square varieties as well. Common ingredients used in pierogi are mashed potatoes, cheese, farmer’s cheese, bryndza (a sheep milk cheese), cabbage, sauerkraut, meat, and mushrooms. Dessert varieties of this dish frequently contain fillings such as cherry, strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, peach, or apple.
The following Pierogi dish is a favorite of mine; I hope you will try it and enjoy it as well!
Focus Foodservice, a progressive company offering well designed and engineered products at an always low price, has recently announced the addition of a product that is guaranteed to increase your storage ability and help organize your kitchen. The green, epoxy tray slide module is the cost effective way to maximize your available storage space. This sturdy tray slide rack can accommodate up to 8 sheet pans on a single shelf.
Food waste disposers may not seem like something that should be high on your priority list to worry about, however disposers can be extremely helpful for the environment. Food waste disposers also seem to carry a great deal of misconceptions that might hinder you from purchasing one of these handy pieces of equipment. This article is going to take some of the most common myths and misconceptions about food waste disposers and tell you the truth about each of these.
15
Oct
KaTom Introduces New Logo!
As many of you may have noticed, KaTom has started to redo our site with one of the most noticeable changes being that to our logo. Our new logo features new, black text with modern cut-outs around both the “a” and “o” in our name. You will also notice the change in the children. Our former logo (which can be seen at the bottom of this page) featured two small children holding balloons that contained the letters of KaTom. As our company has grown, so have Paula & Charley, the two children represented on our logo. These children are now young adults, and are cooking in our new logo to show their growth.
13
Oct
New Dishwashers from CMA!
CMA Dishmachines, an industry leader in the manufacturing and production of quality dishwashers, has recently introduced two new dishmachines, which KaTom is proud to offer at their always low prices. CMA has added the UC50E & UC65E to their collection of fast, effective, and ENERGY STAR® rated dishwashers.
Social media has greatly impacted nearly everything in today’s society, with the restaurant industry being included. Facebook has recently announced an app they call GoRecommend. GoRecommend drives retail location traffic by turning customer experiences into an excellent marketing tool.
Continue reading Restaurants Use Facebook to Raise Brand Awareness
Using customers to power your restaurant? “How is this ever going to work?” is probably the question going through your head at the moment, however, the concept is actually quite simple and unique. An innovative, eco-friendly company has been testing ways to derive energy from sources that have never before been explored. A Burger King in New Jersey has decided to test out one of their new energy-conversion products.
Continue reading Burger King Uses Customers to Power Restaurant
