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Food Equipment News Friday, February 8, 2019 2 2 Pre-Planned Beer Cooler Program from Cooler Concepts Picture this. A customer comes to you with dreams of a new restaurant serving many flavors of local craft, draft beer. It's reasonable for this customer to expect that their new restaurant will have enough storage space for all of their kegs and cases. However, can you as the deal- er/designer be certain that you've planned for enough? When designing the beer cooler, it usually goes to the old standard of one plus a backup or whatev- er space is left over after the kitchen is done. Do you know how much beer they actually use? Based on the average weekly sales of many customers, Cooler Concepts has found that for bars with less than 36 taps, they require about 2.5 times that number in kegs stored. As the tap count increases, the ratio lessens proportionately. For example, if you're designing a restaurant with 12 flavors of draft beer, there should be 30 kegs of beer in their walk-in cooler. But how are you going to get 30 kegs in a walk-in cooler? Using Cooler Concepts' Pre-Planned Beer Cooler Program, you can choose a properly sized cooler and present the cus- tomer with a complete cooler and shelving pack- age perfectly matched to their needs. The Pre- Planned Program was designed around cooler manufacturers' "Quick- Ship" walk-in coolers. The idea was to give the dealer the power to look at a chart and quickly select a walk- in cooler size and shelving package with confidence. The program allows you to plan for three factors that influence your choice: tap count, storage capacity and size of the walk-in. This not only saves you time, it saves your customer money by using standardized models. Cooler Concepts is also the only shelving manufacturer to offer a storage solution that can eliminate the employees handling kegs by using its No-Lift shelving configuration. Pre-Planned Package C in each of the five different cooler sizes available is designed to store and tap all keg product on the floor and store the case/bottle product above, virtually elim- inating the associated risk of keg beer. Let Cooler Concepts make you a hero. Visit Cooler Concepts at booth #2675. For more information, call 800.598.2945, go to www.kegracks.com or find the company on Instagram @cooler_concepts. Glastender Introduces Space-Maximizing Refrigeration Line Glastender, Inc., headquartered in Saginaw, Michigan, has expanded its refrigeration offerings with a new line of space-maximizing coolers and frosters. The new models have a unique condens- ing unit design which offers increased capacity and functionality not normally found in a compact footprint. The C1SB series includes five differ- ent sizes of one-zone, bar-profile coolers, which are available in 24- and 28-inch one-door units and 36-, 44- and 48-inch two-door units. Despite their compact footprint, they maintain the ability to fit a full-height keg, three vertical rows of long neck beer bottles, or two vertical rows of 750ml wine bottles. In addition to being listed to NSF Standard 7 for open food storage, the C1SB coolers share many of the same highly configurable features as Glastender's traditional back bar coolers, which includes doors and drawers in a variety of finishes, finished or unfinished tops, and the capability of shelf storage or draft beverage dispensing, just to name a few. The same five widths available in the C1SB coolers are also available in low-profile heights. Like Glastender's traditional low-profile coolers, the C1SL low-profile coolers are 6 inches shorter than bar-profile coolers, which makes them ideal for underbar or other height- constrained applications. Glastender's C1SU undercounter coolers are modified versions of the C1SL coolers. They include specific features intended to make them more suitable for the undercounter foodservice environment, like a stainless steel pull tab handle, 24-1/8 inch deep top, and casters or legs includ- ed as standard. The new C2SB two-zone, bar-profile coolers have two doors, each with their own thermostatically controlled tempera- ture zone for beer, white or red wine. They are available in 36-, 44- or 48-inch widths and have a 4-inch wide, insulated wall between compartments to ensure consistent temperatures. The new F1SB and F1SL frosters increase Glastender's reach-in froster offerings fivefold and are avail- able with the same options as the C1SB/C1SL coolers (except drawers). At 29-3/4 inches high, the F1SB bar-profile frosters provide the industry's tallest door opening, capable of hold- ing four vertical rows of pint glasses. The F1SL frosters, capable of holding three vertical rows of pint glasses, are the industry's only low-profile, reach-in froster. "We are excited to be releasing a total of 28 new coolers and frosters to the foodservice industry," stated Todd Hall, President of Glastender. "We are sure our customers will appreciate the increased capacity and design flexibili- ty our new space-maximizing units offer." Visit Glastender at booth #1669. Pitco's Latest in Integrated Oil Management As technology in our personal lives becomes faster and more efficient, the need for instant gratification and techni- cal adaptation grows in tandem. More output with less effort is quickly chang- ing from a luxury to a necessity, especial- ly in commercial kitchens. From restau- rants to catering companies and conven- ience to grocery stores, their customer needs are changing and if they don't adapt to add more variety to suit their crowd levels, either someone else will or their profit remains stagnant at best. All of Pitco's innovations are geared towards management needs and user needs alike. Nothing is a better example of that than the latest roll out of the ROV Rack Fryer. This fryer uses almost 20 per- cent less oil than standard rack fryers, eas- ing the financial burden management faces to supply oil for operations. The ROV Rack Fryer also features a newly designed filtration system that not only features a wider drain for faster filtration, but also features many automated process- es. No one has to stand over the fryer wait- ing for one tank to fill up in order to start the next filtra- tion process. Not only that, but this fryer contains a unique in-tank sensor that is the safest solution to prevent the fryer from heating with- out oil in the tank, which is the No. 1 cause of fryer fires. The sensor is also used to help the fryer know when to kick on its Auto-Top Off feature, in that any oil that is lost through the cooking and filtration process is safely administered with fresh oil to keep safe and optimum cooking levels. This fryer is equipped to manage those operations all on its own to keep oil standards at optimum levels for the best food quality and get the highest output of product possible. These fryers can handle the most demanding crowds, cooking racks full of bone-in chicken per- fectly every time. The unit can fry up to 64 pieces of bone-in (8- piece cut) chicken or 60 chicken strips on four racks. Fried chick- en is an incredible value add to any menu, and with the Pitco ROV Rack Fryer you'll see a return on investment faster than ever before. Visit Pitco at booth #1212. For more information, go to www.pitco.com, call 603.225.6684 or email order pitco@pitco.com. Benefits of the SKECHERS Direct Corporate Shoe Program Are you tired of costly slip-and-falls? Are you frustrated with your current shoe program? The SKECHERS Direct Corporate Shoe Program is the answer. This program is cost-free with no mini- mum purchasing requirements or setup fees – your employees buy direct from SKECHERS and save! SKECHERS will put together a cus- tom ecommerce site and will customize the selection based on your company's uniform needs. Your employees can pur- chase shoes online with free shipping and free returns or by shopping at any of over 500-plus SKECHERS retail stores in the United States and Canada. "This cost-free program has some incredible benefits and will provide your employees with a substantial discount on safe, comfortable and durable trend-right footwear resulting in improved worker safety, morale and overall efficiency," says National Sales Manager Harold Surabian. The SKECHERS Direct program is available to companies with 200 or more employees and who are based in the United States or Canada. The pro- gram offers employ- ees a year-round 30 percent discount on SKECHERS slip- resistant work shoes and corporate casual styles. Included in the program is the $5,000 Slip and Fall warranty on all of the SKECHERS slip resistant shoes that help protect your company from costly slip-and-fall claims. In addition, employ- ees will benefit from SKECHERS Quarterly Friends and Family Days events on shoes for the entire family, including kid's shoes, walking shoes, running shoes and even golf shoes (save 30 percent off on over 3,000 great styles as well as apparel and accessories). Should you choose to partici- pate, you may also offer your employ- ees a payroll deduction program for their shoe purchases, which would enable them to spread the cost of their shoes over multiple paychecks. This is part of the program and entirely optional for the employer, and you need not offer a pay- roll deduction plan to enable your employees to enjoy all the other benefits of the SKECHERS Direct Corporate Shoe Program. For more information, contact Harold Surabian at 310.318.3100 x1860 or email haroldsu@skechers.com.