We are a proud supporter of you.

Representing approximately seven out of ten restaurants, the independent owner and operator is the backbone of the industry. We support you with the reliability and durability of our equipment for lower cost of operation. To simplify training, we make our equipment easy to use. It’s certainly a challenge to run a restaurant, but we’re doing everything we can to support you in seeing your dream succeed.

We can help make food safety easy.

One of the most important issues facing independent restaurants, food safety requires the attention and cooperation of everyone on your staff. Good food safety is a lot more than your staff washing their hands thoroughly.

Clean and sanitized ware is essential to any food safety program. While chemical cleaners may leave your glasses and cups with unsightly stains such as lipstick, Hobart’s AM Select high-temp warewasher is NSF-certified to clean and sanitize dishes and delicate glasses, and pots and pans as well.

The recent trend in serving “fresh foods,” including organics, has added to the complexity of food safety. Hobart food processors can help you meet this market demand with safe food practices. For example, our diwash™ aluminum plates remove in seconds and can be cleaned in a warewasher without fear of discoloration.

To keep your food fresh and safe, there’s our full line of Traulsen undercounter refrigerators and freezers with their exclusive microprocessors for precise temperature control.

Save energy, your water and your money, too.

With narrow margins, independent restaurants have really felt the rise in energy costs. Restaurants consume almost two and a half times more energy per square foot than any other commercial-type building. When you add in other utility costs, such as water, you have expenses that continue to erode the profitability of your restaurant.

Hobart equipment and service can help reduce those expenses. Our C-Line Warewasher with Opti-Rinse™ technology can save you as much as $3,500 a year because it uses less than half the water and energy, compared to previous models without Opti-Rinse.

The AM Select Warewasher uses less water—only .74 gallons per rack—than any other door-type warewasher on the market, for annual savings of up to $900.

Another way to save energy is with Energy Star rated appliances. Traulsen Energy Star rated refrigerators and freezers can lead to energy savings as high as 45%.

Hobart Service can help you get the highest level of performance from your equipment with preventive maintenance, service contracts, extended warranty contracts and other specialty programs.

Improving the productivity of your staff.

The largest private-sector employer in the country, the restaurant industry runs on people. For the independent restaurant, wages and benefits account for fully one-third of your costs. Compounding the cost is the high rate of turnover, resulting in the added expense of training and motivating new employees.

Hobart equipment is designed to help you deal with these dual issues by providing products that are easy to operate, require minimal training and increase productivity.

The Hobart Legacy® Mixer is the only mixer with a swing-out bowl, making it simpler to add ingredients and take out product, to mount and change bowls. It has other features to improve productivity, too, such as Automatic Time Recall that remembers the last time set for each speed, making it ideal for mixing batches of the same product.

The Hobart Combi® Oven brings push-button convenience to cooking. You can preprogram up to 100 different recipes that your staff can execute at the touch of a finger.

Our FlashBake® Oven is just as easy to operate. Simply put the sandwich in the oven and press the button. You can preprogram up to 20 different cook cycles. Training takes no longer than the time it takes to cook a single sandwich.

Resources

David Chang

Red Stag Supper Club

Independent Restaurants Segment Brochure

ACF (American Culinary Federation)

DineOriginals.com

DiRoNA (Distinguished Restaurants of North America)

StarChefs.com