Commercial Equipment - Microwaves

You may only need one commercial microwave in your fast paced, busy restaurant and they can be a very useful piece of equipment for reheating dishes for customers, soups, casseroles and often times a restaurant needs a quick re thaw of frozen foods. Offices and other businesses also use commercial equipment for their staff and customers in a break room or entry way as a convenience item. Maybe you're looking for commercial kitchen equipment for your home and want the best, most durable and high efficiency equipment money can buy. These are the best commercial restaurant microwaves we found, use and love for the function, durability and best buys for 1000watts, 1200watts, 1700watts and 3000watts of quality equipment. Buy the perfect commercial microwave for your business or home today!
Check out our top picks here:

Commercial Coffee Makers

Buy a commercial coffee maker that brews fast pots of coffee for you and your customers with these top coffee brewers we love! If you want a commercial coffee maker from the top of the line brand, there's only BUNN! There are a few other companies that produce commercial grade coffee equipment, but the King of Coffee is definitely Bunn. These units are durable, made of stainless steel exterior and parts, last for years without needing any service, are easy to clean and maintain. Read on for our best suggestions for commercial coffee makers, coffee grinder and coffee decanters/pots. We use and highly recommend these Bunn Coffee Brewers for your busy restaurant too!

Commercial Convection Steamers

Commercial convection steamers will help you in your high production kitchen most especially for your restaurant banquet business. Banquets of all sizes will boost your sales and profit in a big way and should be part of your overall plans to do business. In order to effectively handle banquets in any size, you'll want equipment that helps you cook for large groups in large volumes efficiently. Steamers can  help you cook two pans of potatoes to serve 50 people in about 7 minutes compared to an hour in an oven. They're a huge time saver and will be worth every penny. Convection steamers are great for any vegetable, roots, cooking fish perfectly or to reheat saving you time and space in your kitchen. Consider all the weddings, rehearsal dinners, pharmaceutical dinners, anniversary dinners, graduation dinners, birthday parties, class reunions and all other groups that want to get together for a great dinner party and you can have a piece of that business with the proper commercial equipment.  Here are our favorite convection steamers that we recommend you buy for your restaurant:

Commercial Equipment Convection Ovens for your Restaurant

Commercial Equipment Convection Ovens
   Here you will find the most popular brands of commercial convection ovens you need for your restaurant or the at home chef. Buy one high efficiency oven for years of cooking enjoyment and without the hassle of equipment breakdown. Commercial equipment will be one of your highest costs in your restaurant since it must be NSF, high efficiency, commercial grade, durable with quality construction so we've done the research for you to help you find the best deals for a convection oven in your budget. Never mind those tinny units that breakdown easily - these are strong, sturdy, well built with commercial business in mind that is suitable for home use too. These convection ovens will last for years and will help you cook volumes of food so it's money well spent. You'll find some Free Shipping offers to make these ovens more affordable too! Check out the best deals below that we're always searching for you so you get the best prices and features all the time:

Commercial Equipment Stock Pots - Saute Fry Pans- Double Boilers

Our favorite commercial restaurant equipment for your restaurant with links to the best prices online, many items even include Free Shipping. Use only Commercial grade equipment for your restaurant with NSF ratings to stay in code requirements and avoid fines and potential closure of your restaurant.

 Commercial Stock Pots:

     We often recommend stainless steel with aluminum bottoms for it's strength, durability, long lasting, easy to clean and maintain, dishwasher safe, never peels, food won't stick and it looks great!
    

Commercial equipment Stainless Steel Stock Pot with lid

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Stainless Steel Commercial grade 8 quart stock pot with lid NSF certified
Professional Commercial Grade Heavy Duty 8 quart stock pot with lid NSF Induction ready
Professional Commercial Grade Heavy Duty 16 quart stock pot

Calculating Assets and Liabilities for your Restaurant Business Plan

Anatomy of a Business Plan by Linda Pinson courtesy of amazon

As part of your restaurant business plan, there should always be a section labeled 'Assets and Liabilities' so that your lender can see what you own, have, owe and will need to obtain their loan.

This section will take some thought since most of us don't have a journal of all our assets. You will once you create your own business plan. Restaurant loans are one of the most difficult to obtain, banks simply don't want to be in the restaurant business if yours fails and at least 3 out of every 5 do fail, sadly. Liabilities are a little easier to know, find or remember. Your business plan will become a helpful resource to you in your business once you take the time to document your holdings and liabilities and it should also help you to have the proper amount of insurance for your business and your home. Check out Linda Pinson's Anatomy of a Business Plan, voted Best Business Book of the Year, winner of the Ben Franklin Award for step by step instructions.

When creating your list of assets and liabilities use this guide to help you create your columns, it will be easier to read, understand and total the columns:

Attitude of Success

You'll need an attitude of success to start a restaurant and to keep going to make it profitable. There will always be days when you wonder why the heck you even started a restaurant. You'll have days when orders don't arrive on time causing your kitchen to rush to get ready for the dinner hour. You'll have days when staff doesn't show up or even bother to call to come to work and you're short staffed. You'll have days when it's slow and you wonder where all the customers are. Don't despair!! Stay focused, stay positive, tomorrow's a new day and you'll get through today! We're here to help with these inspiring quotes.

Here we provide some of our favorite motivational and inspirational tips and quotes to use and think about every day. We love The Road to Success is always Under Construction poster, it's a great reminder of why you're working hard in your restaurant and can inspire you every day. See the rest of our site for links to our favorite cheap art pieces from allposters to use in your office, business or home to keep you inspired.

Setting up your restaurant office space

Use these tips to help you set up your restaurant office space so that it has everything you need to run a successful business. Get what you need at the best price to save money while helping you to be most productive at your new business.

Best equipment ideas for your restaurant office:

     Laptop - get the best laptop you can afford that allows you to work fast and most efficient. Your laptop or desk top computer will also be a write off so don't get the cheapest one. Get the most gb and ram and features you'll need. Dell, HP, Apple, Toshiba all make very good laptops that don't cost too much but, will really help you in your office. Check out these Best Laptops on Sale.

Business Plan for a Restaurant - Table of Contents Continued

Sections 5 - 8 of your Restaurant Business Plan Table of Contents

We've broken down the steps for you to write your own unique business plan in another post and this one will include the rest of the table of contents we find most helpful to lenders. Hopefully, you've already started working on your own plan using the prior post but, if not here it is if you need to refer to it.

Let's get busy with sections 5 - 8 now!!

Tips for Creating your Restaurant Business Plan

Tips for Creating your Restaurant Business Plan 

  The first four areas for your Table of Contents
     Our last post gave you the highlighted areas that should be included in your restaurant business plan. This post will give more details on what can be included in each of the categories. If you've already started writing your table of contents, now you can move on to giving your lender the information about you, your partners, your goals and ideas for your new restaurant. These are the categories used in our business plan and it should get you the attention you deserve from a lender. Take your time, don't rush the process. It's worth the effort you put into giving the best information you can. If you have no skills at all and need some additional help with graphs, demographics and calculations, we recommend Complete Restaurant Business Plan or Anatomy of a Business Plan Step by Step.
       Create your business plan continuing with these categories:

Getting started on the Business Plan for your restaurant!

It's an exciting day! We've added a new page called Business Plan for a Restaurant for your enjoyment of our restaurant success tips blog. We hope you'll start to take the time to review our categories that we feel create a unique and powerful business plan to help you get the financing you need to open your own business.

We've started with the categories that you should include in your Table of Contents page and build each page from there.

We'll further explain each of the categories in more detail to help you know what will be most helpful to your potential lenders.

Check it out and let us know what you think! It may seem like a large list of categories but, they are all important parts of what you need to express to a lender - most especially if that lender is a stranger. Read the prior posts we've made on choosing a lender if you need help  there.


Thanks for reading, see you soon. Cheers!