AXIS AX-M7 Save labor and time mixing everything from dough to airy egg whites with this 7-qt. planetary mixer from Axis. The mixer features a heavy-duty die-cast aluminum body and stainless bowl and operates with a 650W, ¾-hp, gear-driven motor. The compact unit measures 12-in.W x 19-in.D x 21-in.H. The safety guard, which comes standard,…
APP OF THE MONTH Managing a campus foodservice operation is no small task, especially when it’s academic powerhouse Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Yale Dining serves approximately 14,000 meals per day in 23 residential and retail dining locations. In fall 2013, the university began construction on a new 16,000-sq.-ft. culinary support center, which houses the…
Emotions already were running high in the 16th-hole dining tent during the PGA Tour 2015 Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club, Dublin, Ohio. Top chefs from a national restaurant chain were bustling away, preparing food for hundreds of spectators attending the event. But the pleasant hum of an efficient mobile-kitchen operation was disrupted when…
As we’ve written often during the past few months, the general economy and operator fortunes currently are as good as they’ve been in years. We’re not the only ones seeing things that way. In May, Technomic Inc. dramatically boosted its operator forecast for 2015. The research firm took up total industry nominal growth more than…