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Fresh air with style The cabinet which houses the Breeze air filter is available in teak, beech, cherry and oak finishes, suiting hotels and other hospitality uses. The specially designed air filtration system is designed to deal with passive smoking, ozone, odours and dust allergies. It has a large surface area and depth loading cassette style pre-filter for filtration of airborne particles plus a gas filter designed to deal with ozone and odours as an alternative to traditional carbon panels (which can suffer from dust emissions and leaks).
Operation is described as whisper quiet: 33 dB(A) at low speed and 50 dB(A) at higher speeds. Other products in the range include a "smokers' bar" which offers a place for smokers to relax without disturbing people around them and, for more enclosed areas, a "smokers' room" can be built into an existing room.
Melody Russell (UK)
Mellow yellow The main reception area, including a caf‚, at the London head office of the Selfridges department store chain has been fitted with an Altroflow resin floor in bright yellow to achieve a dramatic the contemporary look and reflect Selfridges branding. The flooring was applied by Hardwick Resins of Bury St. Edmunds. The Altro flooring range includes resin screeds and coatings, smooth and slip resistant vinyl, timber effect vinyl and rubber flooring, and hygienic PVC wall and ceiling cladding and doorsets.
Altro
Metered perfume Providing a new way to keep washroom and reception areas fresh-smelling, the Scentronic metered dose air freshener dispenses a short spray of "natural" perfume at pre-set times from a sturdy stainless steel cabinet designed to look stylish while eliminating risks of vandalism and theft. The unit can be timed to spray at intervals of from five to 25 minutes.
Three timing options enable the Scentronic to be set for operating 24 hours a day, daylight hours or night-time only.
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Bower Products
Can we talk? With four distinct areas - main bar, conservatory, family area and smoking area, with booths - the Old Nelson pub restaurant in Stroud needed to make it easy for customers to call waiting staff but the layout made it impossible to monitor all the dining areas at the same time. The answer has proved to be a TableCall electronic system which avoids the needs for customers to queue at the bar and tell waiters when orders are ready in the kitchen, thus making service speedy and reliable.
The system, which communicates in wireless mode without any cables, features a compact housing with up to five buttons, which can be placed or fixed onto the table. Pushing a button sends a pager alert displaying the table's number and requirement to staff.
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Call-Systems Technology
Warewashing service packages A range of three, four and five star warewasher servicing packages has been launched by Winterhalter with contracts starting from £150 per year (less than £3 per week). The base level three-star package provides a Winterhalter engineer on two site visits per year while the four and five-star packages are designed for sites with their own engineering and maintenance staff and have the option of breakdown-only cover.
The ultimate Five Star package includes breakdown cover and two preventive maintenance service visits per year covering all call-out, labour and parts costs at a cost of from £500 per year.
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Winterhalter
Electrical protection With wide variety of powered equipment from chillers and cooking appliances to entertainment systems and specialised lighting, the Ha! Ha! Bar & Canteen chain now employs Powervar power conditioners and uninterruptible power managers (UPMs) to safeguard the operation of touchscreen tills and provide uninterruptible power for back office systems.
Owner Yates Group chose units incorporating proprietary GroundGuard Technologies to eliminate the need for dedicated/isolated circuits, considered a particular advantage in listed buildings and sites subject to frequent floor plan changes and/or power fluctuations such as at Ha! Ha! sites close to railway tracks.
Powervar
Coldrooms for Kew Gardens In redesigning and refurbishing its Orangery restaurant and kitchen, housed in a Grade 1 listed building, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew needed cold storage rooms for raw ingredients and prepared sauces respectively. To increase the efficiency of the units while reducing noise and heat in the kitchen environment, the two Williams modular coldrooms chosen were connected to remote refrigeration plant.
Salix Stainless Steel Fabrications, who were responsible for installation, also put in Williams Jade Gastronorm upright cabinets including three freezers, a meat storage cabinet and a single door refrigerator.
Williams Refrigeration
New type of waste bin A new design of waste bin from Glasdon UK collects used drinks cups and stores any waste liquid left in them separately , thanks to a removable reservoir unit which gives users a means to empty out unwanted Liquid. The Envoy Cup Bank is designed to fully coordinate with Glasdon Envoy recycling banks and litter bins, providing a one stop solution.
Glasdon UK
Keeping tabs on wet stock Introduced at this year's ScotHot show in Glasgow, Scannabar is designed to give bars, hotels and other licensed premises greater control of wet inventory using latest barcode and radio frequency technology to track spirits and wines and ensure that every order delivered to the premises ends up in the stockroom or bar. The system entails placing a bar-coded ribbon down the side of each bottle to be monitored. This also serves as a measuring tool to count the amount of alcohol left in open bottles.
Using the original manufacturer's barcode, a unique Scannabar coded label covering brand, size, shape and volume is created for each bottle and these can then be scanned using wireless RF hand-held scanners which transfer the data back to the organisation's office computer for analysis.
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DataScan POS Systems
Chips away A 400mm wide chip scuttle has been added to Lincat's Opus 700 range of prime cooking equipment. The unit has a total power output of 1.5 kW with heat distributed evenly from below and an overhead lamp adding a warm glow lamp as well as top-up heat. A removable perforated fat drain tray placed in the standard 1/1 Gastronorm size container helps chips to stay fresh and crisp. Price is £782 with a floor stand optionally available. Lincat has also added a 400mm wide wet well bain-marie to the Opus 700 range. It is priced at £720.
Lincat
