Beverage-Air refrigerators come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, and are the perfect pieces of restaurant equipment needed to keep your food fresh and cool.  Whether you’re trying to chill milk for youngsters to grow strong bones with, keep all the fixings for a sandwich crisp and organized, make sure that frosty mug of beer stays frosty, or simply freeze or refrigerate anywhere from a modest to a massive amount of food and/or beverage, Beverage-Air refrigerators are guaranteed to get the job done.

After all, we’re talking about one of the industry leaders of refrigeration and, er, freezeration? products.  Beverage-Air refrigerators have a justly-deserved reputation for being efficient, well-made, and incredibly effective.

Beverage-Air Kegerators

Beverage-Air kegerators are excellent examples of Beverage-Air refrigerators doing a specialized task perfectly.  Sure, you could throw a keg in a refrigerator and call it a day, but that would be an incredibly inefficient use of resources and space, and you’d probably make yourself nuts drilling holes through those excellently manufactured refrigerator walls to run the tubing.  Why not just call it a day and opt for Beverage-Air kegerators?  They’re durable, reliable, easy on the eyes, and do what they’re designed to do virtually flawlessly.  These are a must for any restaurant or bar accustomed to giving discerning customers near-brain freezes with crisp, refreshing mugs of beer.

Beverage-Air Refrigerators

Beverage-Air Refrigerators, as previously alluded to, make a host of chilling and freezing products.  Obviously, regular old refrigerators are part of their trade, but even these come in a dazzling array of styles, so you can find exactly the solution your restaurant needs.  The Beverage-Air Display Refrigerator CRG24-1, for example, is an excellent way of providing customers with an opportunity to grab the beverage they need and go.  It’s a great addition to diners or fast casual establishments. For an under-the-counter model, check out the Beverage-Air Undercounter Refrigerator UCR60A, which features two doors for easy access, as well as a sturdy, stainless steel exterior.

Chances are, if you’re a regular follower of this blog, you know how much we appreciate the masterpieces of manufacturing that are Manitowoc ice machines.  There are a host of reasons for this appreciation.  They include, in an unordered and certainly incomplete list, their resiliency, their quality, their efficiency, and their excellent warranty (not that you’re likely to ever need to use it).

Well, we can go ahead and add another reason to love Manitowoc ice machines to this too-short list: their greenness.

Now, from a corporate perspective, it’s very trendy these days to pronounce yourself “green.”  One of the more frustrating things about the “green” term is that it is so nebulous that companies often toss it around without anything concrete to back it up.  Manitowoc is different.  According to a Manitowoc press release we found while cruising around on their site (yes, we do do that), upwards of 175 different Manitowoc ice machine models have been certified by the California Energy Commission.

Sure, 175 sounds like a lot, but Manitowoc has, what, 63 billion models?  Not so!  The press release goes on to say that over 97% of all Manitowoc cube ice machines meet or exceed strict standards put in place by groups such as the California Energy Commission or Energy Star.  That’s a significant chunk, and that’s certainly something to be proud of.

Another great, marginally related tidbit points out that Manitowoc ice machines come in a wide range of sizes, ranging from efficient ones that put out 30 pounds of ice daily to workhorses that pump out 1,800 pounds of ice in a 24-hour period.  Eighteen hundred pounds of ice!  Imagine how many perfectly chilled glasses of lemonade you could help facilitate with that!  It’s making our mouths water just considering the possibilities.

At Short Order, we’re proud to carry Manitowoc ice machines, a leader in restaurant equipment.

All right, we’ll own up to it: our thing for Globe slicers is real, and it’s legitimate.  Nothing against Hobart slicers, which we find to be similarly wonderful machines, but there’s just something about Globe slicers that drives us to a bloggable frenzy.  Maybe it’s their peerless machining.  Perhaps its their sleek, efficient design.  It could also be their virtually intuitive ease of use.  You know what?  It’s probably a combination of all of that and more.  Regardless, we’re huge fans of Globe slicers, and we think any commercial kitchen operator would be a similarly all-in convert if they ever got their hands on one.  You’ll never look at a block of cheese or deli meat in the same way after a Globe slicer makes short work of it, and that’s the truth.

Globe Slicers: Industry Leaders

It’s no secret that Globe slicers are magnificent pieces of restaurant equipment.  We say it’s no secret because Globe slicers are the recipients of significant amounts of accolades.  Consider the fact that, in-house, we have an editing team in charge of rating all of the products we carry.  Many of the products Globe manufactures, such as Globe slicers, meat grinders, and mixers are rated particularly highly.  Some are even designated with an Editor’s Choice rating, which means we consider them to be above and beyond our typically excellent range of offerings.

(A note about our “typically excellent range of offerings”: We only carry products that we find to be top-notch, which is why our star rating begins at 3 stars and goes up to 5.  It’s not that we’re trying to pull a fast one, believe us!  We really just only stock products we like, and Globe slicers happen to be products we like very, very much.)

If Globe slicers or Hobart slicers aren’t what you’re looking for, remember, we stock a whole bevy of excellent pieces of restaurant equipment bound to help you get the job done, whatever job that may be!

If you’ve been a follower of this space for any significant length of time (and by “significant,” we’d say, oh, a week), you’re likely to know that we have a bit of a thing for ice machines.  Yeah, it’s definitely a “thing,” now, having been upgraded from a “hankering” and having long since passed an “affinity.”  Our “thing” for ice machines hasn’t evolved into an “obsession” just yet—we’re not weird, after all!

Ahem.  At any rate, semi-regular followers of What’s Cooking are also likely to know that our ice machine “thing” is pretty focused on the wonderful world of Manitowoc ice machines in particular.  The reasons for this are pretty straightforward: Manitowoc ice machines are efficient, well-made, an excellent value, and the industry leaders.  Pretty straightforward, isn’t it?  However, you might be a bit more dedicated to our blog to know that our ice machines love is by no means exclusive to the Manitowoc brand.  Indeed, we’re fairly egalitarian when it comes to our appreciation of the ice machines we stock.  We just write about Manitowoc more than the other guys because we can get into a groove like that.

Here’s probably the best way we can put it: We choose to stock every piece of restaurant equipment that we offer.  Nobody’s slipping unwanted rice cookers into our warehouses when we’re not looking.  What’s more, we’re pretty discerning folks: When we choose the equipment we stock, we only choose the best.  That means, in addition to Manitowoc ice machines, we also offer Ice O Matic ice machines, Hoshizaki ice machines, and Scotsman ice machines.  We fully stand behind all of these products as exemplary, and bound to get the job done with efficiency and aplomb.  You might not associate a word like “aplomb” with an ice machine, but we certainly do.  You might change your mind after you give one of these masterful products a try.