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Cold Rooms and Walk-Ins: When Reach-In Stops Being Enough
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Cold Rooms and Walk-Ins: When Reach-In Stops Being Enough

In short: the moment to move to a cold room is not when the reach-ins are full. It is when the number of doors being opened per service b...

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How to Start a Catering Business That Arrives Intact
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How to Start a Catering Business That Arrives Intact

In short: how to start a catering business is a question about the gap between your kitchen and somebody else's room. The cooking is the ...

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Blast Freezer or Commercial Freezer: One Word, Two Machines
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Blast Freezer or Commercial Freezer: One Word, Two Machines

In short: a commercial freezer holds food that is already frozen. A blast freezer takes heat out of food that is not. They are rated for ...

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How to Open a Craft Beer Bar Where Variety Does Not Go Flat
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How to Open a Craft Beer Bar Where Variety Does Not Go Flat

In short: how to open a craft beer bar is a fight between two things you want at the same time. Guests come for choice; draft beer reward...

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What a Bartender Loses to a Cheap Kegerator
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What a Bartender Loses to a Cheap Kegerator

In short: a kegerator has one job — hold beer at a steady temperature from the keg to the moment it leaves the faucet. A cheap unit does ...

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How to Open a Frozen Yogurt Shop When the Customer Sets the Portion
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How to Open a Frozen Yogurt Shop When the Customer Sets the Portion

In short: how to open a frozen yogurt shop is unusual because you do not portion the product — the customer does, and then you weigh it. ...

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Soft Serve or Frozen Yogurt: The Machine Behind the Swirl
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Soft Serve or Frozen Yogurt: The Machine Behind the Swirl

In short: soft serve and frozen yogurt are the same machine with a different mix in the hopper. What you are really choosing is flavour c...

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How to Open a Deli Without the Counter Eating the Margin
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How to Open a Deli Without the Counter Eating the Margin

In short: how to open a deli comes down to one uncomfortable trade. A counter that looks abundant sells more; a counter that still looks ...

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Vacuum Packaging for a Kitchen That Preps Ahead
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Vacuum Packaging for a Kitchen That Preps Ahead

In short: a vacuum packaging machine is bought for shelf life and paid back in scheduling. It lets a kitchen do Tuesday's work on Monday,...

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How to Open a Bagel Shop Where the Kettle Sets the Pace
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How to Open a Bagel Shop Where the Kettle Sets the Pace

In short: how to open a bagel shop is a question about one pot. The boil is the step that makes a bagel a bagel rather than a bread roll,...

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Planetary Mixer or Spiral: What a Bakery Runs All Day
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Planetary Mixer or Spiral: What a Bakery Runs All Day

In short: a planetary mixer and a spiral mixer are not two sizes of the same machine. A planetary beats and aerates with an interchangeab...

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How to Open a Steakhouse Around a Product You Cannot Improve
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How to Open a Steakhouse Around a Product You Cannot Improve

In short: how to open a steakhouse is a yield question before it is a cooking one. The steak arrives at its best; nothing in your kitchen...

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Charbroiler, Salamander or Rotisserie: Sizing a Commercial Grill
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Charbroiler, Salamander or Rotisserie: Sizing a Commercial Grill

In short: a charbroiler heats from below, a salamander from above, and a rotisserie turns the food through the heat. That is not a detail...

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How to Open a Donut Shop Around a Four-Hour Product
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How to Open a Donut Shop Around a Four-Hour Product

In short: how to open a donut shop is a scheduling problem wearing a bakery costume. The product peaks about half an hour after it leaves...

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How a Kitchen Sizes Its Exhaust Hood Before It Fails Inspection
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How a Kitchen Sizes Its Exhaust Hood Before It Fails Inspection

In short: a kitchen exhaust hood is sized from the equipment underneath it, not from the floor area. Get the airflow and the overhang rig...

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How to Open a Ghost Kitchen for Food That Travels
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How to Open a Ghost Kitchen for Food That Travels

In short: how to open a ghost kitchen is a question about the twenty minutes after the food leaves. Nothing is tasted at your pass — it i...

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Undercounter, Hood or Conveyor: Sizing a Commercial Dishwasher
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Undercounter, Hood or Conveyor: Sizing a Commercial Dishwasher

In short: a commercial dishwasher is sized in racks per hour at your busiest hour, not in covers per day. That one number chooses between...

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How to Open a Cocktail Bar: the Menu Is the Equipment List
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How to Open a Cocktail Bar: the Menu Is the Equipment List

In short: how to open a cocktail bar is mostly one question asked twelve times — what does this drink need in order to leave the bar in n...

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10 Mistakes That Eat a Bar's Profit — Starting With the Cocktail Station
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10 Mistakes That Eat a Bar's Profit — Starting With the Cocktail Station

In short: a full room and a thin margin usually means the money left at the well, not at the door. Below are the ten leaks that cost the ...

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How to Open a Pizzeria: the Oven Decides the Menu
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How to Open a Pizzeria: the Oven Decides the Menu

In short: how to open a pizzeria starts with the oven, because it decides the style of pizza, the throughput, the staffing and the ventil...

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Types of Cocktail Glasses Every Bar Needs
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Types of Cocktail Glasses Every Bar Needs

In short: six shapes of cocktail glasses carry almost all service, and everything beyond them is a signature piece bought for a specific ...

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How to Open a Speakeasy Behind an Unmarked Door
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How to Open a Speakeasy Behind an Unmarked Door

In short: how to open a speakeasy is a trade between mystery and capacity. Every step of concealment buys atmosphere and costs you walk-i...

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Commercial Kitchen Equipment: What a Full Kitchen Actually Needs
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Commercial Kitchen Equipment: What a Full Kitchen Actually Needs

In short: commercial kitchen equipment lists run to sixty items and most kitchens need about a dozen. Work station by station — delivery,...

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How to Open a Karaoke Bar the Neighbours Can Live With
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How to Open a Karaoke Bar the Neighbours Can Live With

In short: how to open a karaoke bar is a question about where sound escapes. Four leak paths decide whether the venue survives its neighb...

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