One of the biggest investments in opening a commercial restaurant goes right into the kitchen and everything that it needs. This is the array of commercial equipment that will be used by the chefs and the staff.
A modern commercial equipment must have industrial-grade equipment that can withstand use in a busy restaurant. So much so that the layout of the kitchen has to be planned to allow food to flow seamlessly from the preparation area to the line.
The kitchen
Sometimes your restaurant location may be hampered by the small size of your kitchen space where you need to manage the space for food preparation and the traffic of people using such a space. The strategy then is to think out the size of the kitchen to the sizes of the many equipment items you need.
As the heart of your restaurant operations, the kitchen is where your menu comes alive abetted by all the equipment you have as orchestrated by your chef and executed by your staff. It is the center of the action where the food is prepared, cooked and plated.
Differences
This is different from your home kitchen where there is only you and your family and some basic equipment to help you prepare your food. In a commercial restaurant, the equipment sets and the many items in food preparation sequence takes precedence over all else.
The commercial equipment need to be up-to-date and modern to help make preparations faster for the clients. The equipment should also be well-selected according in line with the chef’s designs.
Random equipment list
Depending on the size of your restaurant and the scope of your clientele, this equipment list is by no means the definitive line-up. Rather, this list is simply the basis of your needed equipment.
For basic commercial cooking systems, you would certainly need a range, ovens, grills, deep fryers, coolers, and freezers (chest, upright, or walk-in). If your restaurant is medium sized or bigger, you certainly need more than one item.
The same is true for your need of ovens. As a matter of fact, this is the same story for the number of grills you need, the coolers and the freezers your place needs in relation to your expected clientele size.
Utensils and devices
This is also true to the smaller utensils and other cooking devices for your place. your chef would know just how may of the following would you need: sauté pans, stock and soup pots, sauce pans, baking sheets, baking pans, tongs, spatulas, ladles, chef’s knives, paddles, whisks, and bowls of all types.
You or your manager would also know just how many of the following items would your place needs, given your expected clientele, the size of your establishment and the speed your staff can whip up the food for the customers.
You need to know how may steam tables, entrée places, appetizer plates, salad plates, dessert plates you need. The other items like the metal or plastic shelves, and inserts for coolers would you want.
Depending on your restaurant’s kitchen size and your concept, you might not need all of them.









