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School & College Kitchen Equipment: A UK Cantee...

Stand in a secondary school kitchen at twenty to twelve and you'll watch something no restaurant is ever asked to do. Six hundred meals, plated and gone, inside the fifty...

School & College Kitchen Equipment: A UK Cantee...

Stand in a secondary school kitchen at twenty to twelve and you'll watch something no restaurant is ever asked to do. Six hundred meals, plated and gone, inside the fifty...

Care Home Kitchen Equipment: A Compliance-Led U...

I'm Andrew Pickersgill, Managing Director at eCatering, and I've spent more than thirty years specifying commercial kitchens across the UK. Care homes are the ones I think about hardest. Here's...

Care Home Kitchen Equipment: A Compliance-Led U...

I'm Andrew Pickersgill, Managing Director at eCatering, and I've spent more than thirty years specifying commercial kitchens across the UK. Care homes are the ones I think about hardest. Here's...

Opening a Hotel Kitchen: The Complete UK Equipm...

Quarter to seven in the morning, in a hotel kitchen just off the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. The pass is empty and clean. The head chef is looking at the...

Opening a Hotel Kitchen: The Complete UK Equipm...

Quarter to seven in the morning, in a hotel kitchen just off the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. The pass is empty and clean. The head chef is looking at the...

How Much Does It Cost to Open a Takeaway in the...

Thirty years of watching people open takeaways, and I can tell you the most common way it goes wrong. Not the food. Not the location. It's that somebody worked out...

How Much Does It Cost to Open a Takeaway in the...

Thirty years of watching people open takeaways, and I can tell you the most common way it goes wrong. Not the food. Not the location. It's that somebody worked out...

Opening a Takeaway: The Complete UK Equipment C...

The unit is empty. Bare screed floor, one cold tap, a fuse board that nobody has looked at properly, and a lease that says you're trading in four weeks. I've...

Opening a Takeaway: The Complete UK Equipment C...

The unit is empty. Bare screed floor, one cold tap, a fuse board that nobody has looked at properly, and a lease that says you're trading in four weeks. I've...

How Much Does It Cost to Open a Café in the UK?...

I'm Andrew Pickersgill, Managing Director at eCatering, and I've spent more than thirty years watching people open cafés. The happy ones and the ones that closed by month nine. The...

How Much Does It Cost to Open a Café in the UK?...

I'm Andrew Pickersgill, Managing Director at eCatering, and I've spent more than thirty years watching people open cafés. The happy ones and the ones that closed by month nine. The...

Opening a Café: The Complete UK Equipment Check...

I've lost count of how many times I've stood in an empty café unit with someone who is about to spend their life savings. Bare walls, a capped-off water feed,...

Opening a Café: The Complete UK Equipment Check...

I've lost count of how many times I've stood in an empty café unit with someone who is about to spend their life savings. Bare walls, a capped-off water feed,...

How Much Does It Cost to Open a Restaurant in t...

I'm Andrew Pickersgill, Managing Director at eCatering. In thirty years of supplying UK kitchens I've been asked about the cost to open a restaurant UK-wide more times than I can...

How Much Does It Cost to Open a Restaurant in t...

I'm Andrew Pickersgill, Managing Director at eCatering. In thirty years of supplying UK kitchens I've been asked about the cost to open a restaurant UK-wide more times than I can...

Opening a Restaurant: The Complete UK Kitchen E...

The room smells of dust and old carpet glue. A stub of pipe out of a wall where a sink used to be, a fuse board last touched during the...

Opening a Restaurant: The Complete UK Kitchen E...

The room smells of dust and old carpet glue. A stub of pipe out of a wall where a sink used to be, a fuse board last touched during the...

How Much Does It Cost to Open a Pub in the UK? ...

I'm Andrew Pickersgill, Managing Director at eCatering. Thirty years in this trade, and I still watch people walk in with a number in their head that bears no relationship to...

How Much Does It Cost to Open a Pub in the UK? ...

I'm Andrew Pickersgill, Managing Director at eCatering. Thirty years in this trade, and I still watch people walk in with a number in their head that bears no relationship to...

Opening a Pub: The Complete UK Equipment Checklist

I've walked into more empty pubs than I can count. Keys in hand, a bare back bar, a cellar hatch nobody's opened in a fortnight. It's a good feeling and...

Opening a Pub: The Complete UK Equipment Checklist

I've walked into more empty pubs than I can count. Keys in hand, a bare back bar, a cellar hatch nobody's opened in a fortnight. It's a good feeling and...

What Commercial Catering Equipment Do I Need? A...

The first kitchen I stood in on a Saturday night had a floor faintly tacky underfoot, an extractor that sounded like a light aircraft, and a chef who could tell...

What Commercial Catering Equipment Do I Need? A...

The first kitchen I stood in on a Saturday night had a floor faintly tacky underfoot, an extractor that sounded like a light aircraft, and a chef who could tell...

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