Catering Ice Packs & Warmers
Catering ice packs and warmers are essential for foodservice businesses offering delivery or catering services. Keeping food at the proper temperature is crucial, both for customer satisfaction and to ensure food remains safe and upholds its quality until it reaches the consumer.
Many foodservice operations benefit from capitalizing on catering opportunities and the growing popularity of off-premise dining. In order to ensure food reaches the customer at the same quality it left with, catering ice packs and hot packs for food help regulate temperature during transport.
For dishes that need to remain chilled before consumption (such as desserts, fresh fruit and vegetables, and dairy products), food service ice packs help keep meals cool and safe until they're ready to be served. Reusable ice packs and cold plates come in varying sizes to chill almost any dish; these keep dishes cold with food-safe freezable gel and typically must be frozen overnight prior to use. Catering heat packs are great for cooked dishes, such as pastas, casseroles, pizzas, and fried foods. Thermal pellets and conduction bases help hot food stay hot during transportation within a healthcare facility or other similar locations and are placed beneath dish to keep food meant to be served hot at safe, appetizing temperatures.
Thermal shelves can be used to separate hot food sections from cold food sections when transporting both hot and cold dishes in the same carrier. These insulated shelves divide food storage space and allow users to control multiple temperatures in one convenient container. Many models of thermal shelves are easily removable and dishwasher safe, so they can be cleaned and rearranged between deliveries.