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FOOD PREP With operators rightly set on devoting as much of their space as possible to areas that actually generate revenue, food preparation stations can feel the squeeze. Prep, though, can’t be shrunk too much without actually hurting a foodservice operation. Here a pair of respected design consultants share their experiences with building tight, efficient prep areas that work — without wasting space.

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C ompetition in the foodservice world is fiercer than ever. Whole operational categories — from fast casual to food trucks — have emerged in recent years, and it seems new concepts pop up almost every day. Customers now have more menus, foods and dining experiences to choose from than ever before. At the same time, a brutal recession, followed by a recovery so sluggish that it barely deserves the name, continue to stretch budgets thin across the board — from operator to customer to every member of the E&S supply chain.

Naturally, then, foodservice operations in the construction or remodel phase will design their locations in ways that will let them squeeze every possible dollar out of the space. Translation: more seats. While clearly understandable, this choice does pose risks.

In their quest to fit in just one more two-top, operators can give short shrift to the kitchen.

Given that there’s really no way to make refrigerators and ovens smaller than they are, food preparation space is most likely to get the squeeze. Operators who squeeze too tightly, though, could face years and even decades of frustration in poorly functioning kitchens.

Through thoughtful design, foodservice operators can avoid such a fate. Even better, by starting with the menu, building a small bit of flexibility into prep spaces and recognizing the role slicing and dicing can play in the front of the house, operators can create tight, efficient prep spaces that not only serve their purpose, but actually add value to their operations.

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THE BUILDING BLOCKS Ask any design consultant and they’ll say no hard-and-fast rule exists regarding how much of an operation’s space should go toward prep.

Instead, it all starts with the concept and its menu.

“A scratch operation will be different than a fast-casual operation that might be ordering foods in different prepared states,” says Beth Kuczera, president of Chicago-based Equipment Dynamics Inc. “Designing a prep space requires the finite breakdown of what happens in the menu — who’s doing what and what is being prepared. The menu is the holy bible of the restaurant. People who come to us now can’t come to us without a menu.”

Properly examining a menu requires more than just looking over a list of appetizers and entrées, Kuczera says. It requires asking a lot of questions. For example, does the operation plan to offer catering or banquet service? If so, the kitchen will likely require more spaces suitable for prep work. Another important menu-related question — one that requires a more complex

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answer than yes or no — involves food prep scheduling and labor. While staff has to do some preparation the day the food is served, other prep work — such as grating cheese or washing produce — can take place the night before service. By taking advantage of these variations, operators can reduce the footprint of their prep areas, says Reggie Daniel, director of design for Camacho Associates, a foodservice design consultancy headquartered in Atlanta.

“You can have people come in early or stay late to do prep work for the next day so the staff isn’t all there at the same time,” Daniel says. “The menu itself will determine whether it’s a product that can be prepped the day before. Sometimes you have to convince the operator that if they do it one way, they won’t need as much worktable space and won’t have to have as much of a footprint in the kitchen, which means they can devote that space to the front of the house.”

Of course, the rise of display cooking means the front of the house is home to more and more prep work. This raises the question of exactly what customers ought to see. Both Daniel and Kuczera believe that operators and design consultants should set up a kitchen to show only the best part of prep, though they do this in somewhat different ways.

Favorite Tools for Prep It’s only natural that a design consultant would have favorite pieces of equipment for different situations. When it comes to prep areas, Reggie Daniel of Camacho Associates and Beth Kuczera of Equipment Dynamics Inc. certainly fit that bill.

Daniel is a fan of portable induction cooktops in prep areas. While he stresses that operators must use these units in accordance with health and safety codes — no frying, for example — they provide valuable flexibility. “If you’re rendering chocolate or warming something, or if you’re a baker and you’re making a frosting, you can do it at a worktable rather than having to do it at a dedicated range under the hood.” Similarly, he says, operations should take advantage of handheld mixing wands, which offer portability and are rightsized for small-batch prep.

Another tool Daniel likes is the highend food processor. Units that cut with extreme precision without having the blade “slam” into the produce increase yield, allowing a more expensive tool to pay for itself relatively quickly, he says.

Produce washers represent a somewhat unusual piece that operators should consider as well, says Daniel. If an operation serves vegetables of “any quality at all,” he says, produce washers are compelling from both a labor and food-cost standpoint. Some foodservice-grade produce washers available today operate simply by pouring the produce in the top and placing a collection bin at the bottom. “It allows the staffer to leave and do something else while the produce is being washed. They don’t have to stand there and scrub radishes to get the dirt off them. It’s

a huge labor-saving device in a small footprint.”

What’s more, Daniel finds these tools to be more effective than hand cleaning when it comes to washing away microorganisms that cause produce to spoil, resulting in longer storage life and less waste.

Kuczera also has a favorite piece of prep equipment for extending food’s shelf life: the blast chiller. Operations that specialize in fresh food, especially, can benefit from these tools. “When there’s an opportunity for a particularly lush run of salmon or some great vegetables, the blast chiller allows you to clean it, temperature-control it and extend the shelf life,” she says.

Similarly, Kuczera is a fan of salad spinners.

Whether electric or handpowered, it’s good to have a single tool that can wash and dry produce to help it maintain freshness.

She’s also serious about the prep tables. Kuczera strongly favors tables that are three feet deep rather than two feet. That extra space, she says, allows operators to keep countertop equipment at hand without it getting in the way. In addition, Kuczera likes to specify tables made of a heavier-gauge metal. While they may be slightly more expensive than lighter-gauge tables, they should last an extra five years, she says.

Other good pieces to have on hand: sink-bowl covers that are built to double as cutting boards, allowing operations to quickly expand counter space, as well as lockdown covers on reliever drains, which can prevent food from going down a drain and causing hundreds or thousands of dollars of damage to an operation’s plumbing.

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In Daniel’s view, front-of-the-house prep means showing customers only the “sexy” side of foodservice. “There’s a difference in kitchens between clean dirt and dirty dirt. Uncrating vegetables is not something the customer necessarily wants to see, but they do want to see you processing them, cutting, julienning, whatever. So you do the ugly part of the prep in the back, and then you take your partially prepped products — say it’s already washed and in tubs or trays — and you bring them out and process them right in front of the customers.”

For her part, Kuczera is a bit more hesitant to show knife work to the customers. In fact, she often strategically places four- or five-foot walls to shield guests from some of the nittygritty. She also pays special attention to a frontof-house kitchen’s sight lines. It’s impossible to keep a working kitchen’s floor perfectly clean and free of every dropped parsley sprig, Kuczera notes. As a result, operators should situate front-of-the-house prep areas so customers look at the front-of-kitchen staffers — and not down a kitchen’s aisles.

Two other big and related trends impact prep: scratch cooking and the use of locally sourced ingredients. Since both involve using fewer processed foods, operations adopting this approach will almost by definition require more prep stations and larger prep areas.

Not everything involving scratch preparation is so simple, though. One of the bigger prep-related questions for fresh and scratch kitchens is storage space. Operators receiving several deliveries of produce, meat, fish and so on from their vendors should require less storage space than an establishment that gets just one or two deliveries per week from a broadline vender. Countering this, however, is the large number of ingredients that scratch kitchens may require for making everything fresh — from desserts to hand-cut fries to pot pies. Determining just how much storage one of these operations needs comes down to, once again, a close analysis of the menu, along with a deep understanding of how the operation will run on a day-to-day basis.

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Both Daniel and Kuczera believe in keeping everything a kitchen staffer would need right at the prep station in order to minimize steps.

One of Kuczera’s best practices to achieve this level of efficiency is designing spaces vertically. “If you can get 8 - or 10-foot ceilings, the opportunity to go up is great,” she says. The first shelf above a prep table, she says, should contain the things staffers will need most often, like seasonings and spices. If there’s room for an additional shelf above that, it can hold other items used somewhat less frequently at the prep station, such as bulk ingredients.

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After looking up and down, Kuczera next looks to the left and right of a prep station, thinking about how each member of the culinary staff will actually use this workstation.

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DESIGN TIPS AND TRICKS In addition to these sorts of design principles, which allow operators to assemble fundamentally sound kitchens, most foodservice designers have tips and tricks they use to make the most out of prep space.

One of Kuczera’s best practices is a bit counterintuitive in this day and age of designing kitchens that are the most efficient possible: leave a little extra space at a couple of points in a prep area. These small bits of space can provide an operation with the flexibility to introduce new menu items and to evolve along with changing customer tastes. “We had clients who finished their kitchen and then

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Another of Kuczera’s favorite moves is staggering prep stations to avoid having two kitchen staffers work back-toback. This prevents staffers from bumping into each other and disrupting their work. It also, she says, helps the kitchen feel more open without requiring any extra space. “The way a kitchen feels is what generates labor productivity.

If someone can release themselves out to the walk-in cooler without interrupting four other prep stations, that’s thoughtful design.”

Daniel also supports designing kitchens with an open feel, especially in the front of the house. For that reason, he avoids placing equipment that looks like tall stainless steel boxes where the customer can see them.

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Sizes vary significantly based on the application. Undercounter units can be 24 to 108 inches long, with depths ranging from 24 to 34 inches. The smallest footprint of an undercounter refrigeration unit is usually 24 inches by 24 inches, although these units may have ventilation requirements that prohibit boxing them in on the sides. These units tend to be 30 inches tall to fit under counters.

“The height of undercounter refrigeration systems used in the front of house needs to be [no more than] 34 inches to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act requirements,” says Harry Schildkraut, FCSI, principal of S2O Consultants, Inc., based in Hawthorn Woods, Ill. Undercounter refrigerators typically feature stainless steel construction on the exterior with a choice of aluminum, painted white aluminum, stainless steel and ABS plastic for the interior. Operators can also specify unfinished tops or have them finished with stainless steel or a laminate. Doors may be unlaminated, laminated or glass. These units typically feature foamed-in-place polyurethane insulation.

When purchasing an undercounter refrigeration unit, operators can choose from a variety of features, including automatic condensate vaporizers, automatic defrost, casters, door swing and handle options, selfclosing doors and vinylcoated shelving. Other options include pull out drawers, a backsplash, low-profile casters and a one- or two-tier over shelf assemblies.

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Also take into consideration clearance for opening doors and drawers.

Placement in relation to other equipment and walls represents another key consideration.

Some front-breathing, self-contained units allow operators to build the cabinets in on three sides. Other models require clearance on the three sides or in the back to create proper ventilation space. A lack of proper ventilation space could force the compressor to burn out.

Determine the types of products the operator will store in the refrigeration unit.

This ensures the specification of the proper type and size of unit.

“Operators also should consider the maximization of available space,” Schildkraut says. “For example, [it’s possible to utilize] the void space above the compressor for a refrigerated drawer.”

Undercounter units offer either selfcontained or remote refrigeration systems.

To determine which type best suits the operation, confirm placement of the equipment prior to specification.

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Considering Features and Options • Operators can specify a variety of door finishes, including laminated, unlaminated and glass. Glass doors provide added visibility to assess the items that are out of stock.

• Weight-bearing tops are standard on some units and not on others. If an additional worktop will be necessary, this is a viable option.

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• Understand how the unit addresses condensation. Most units include pans underneath to collect drips. Other models offer an optional electric condensate feature.

Some units utilize hot gas, which transfers heat from the compressor to eliminate condensation issues.

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LEARN MORE ABOUT CAMSHELVING BASICS SERIES

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Libbey Foodservice introduces two phenomenal guides to help you with your pouring profits!

Uncorking profits for Wine by the glass

The Libbey Beer Master™ guide and the “Uncorking Profits” guide.

The Libbey Beer Master™ guide includes the basics on beer styles, food pairings, and serving temperatures along with beer styles paired with suggested Libbey glasses.

Libbey introduces

a simple,

elegant system that

The “Uncorking Profits” guide introduces a simple, elegant system that easily allows you to increase perceived value, sales and profits for wine by the glass programs.

easily

allows you to increas

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perceived value,

sales

and profits for wine

by

the glass program

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Wine by the glass offers: • serious profit opportun ities for the operator

If you would like to receive a copy simply email your request with your address and we will send you a free copy or we will send you a link to download the guides for those who chose to go paperless.

• a flexible and attractive option for your house and premium wine service • an opportunistic method to present the bottle at the table, adding to perceive d value • the opportunity to attractively customize your stemwar e and apply portion control For more informatio n, contact your Libbey sales represent ative.

Please send requests to dsousa@libbey.com or contact your local R.E.D. sales representative.

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