Commercial cater equipment costs an absolute fortune. I remember that during the very first week after we bought the pub the glass washing machine started to play up. Now I was always under the impression that the glasses were cleaned by turning them upside down in a bowl of water that had an upturned revolving rubber stump with tentacles on it. Apparently that form of glass cleaning is no longer allowed. The glasses must now be cleaned in a machine that is basically a dish washer but with a much faster cycle. A two minute cycle. Which when you think about it makes sense. It be much use to you wouldn’t having to wait the 45 minutes or so that a normal dishwasher would take to complete a cycle. Anyway, the machine that was giving us trouble was a stainless steel contraction about the size of a normal dishwasher and without it functioning we would have to close the pub. So, a quick call home, as Kelly was now installed in the pub yet, had Kelly tracking down a new machine. She rang back to say that there was one waiting for me at a commercial supplier in nearby Redditch, all paid for and ready for collection. Great, off I went. On arrival I walked into the delivery point and was spotted straight away as the person coming to collect a glass washer. it “There is” said the helpful guy pointing towards the floor, with the paperwork just needing a signature I would be loaded and away in minutes. But for the life of me I see a machine big enough that resembled couldn’t the broken piece of crap that I had left behind at the pub. He pointed again after noticing my confused expression. Nothing registered. When he eventually pointed specifically to a small eighteen inch square box on the floor. I knew that somewhere between me, Kelly and the supplier there had been a communicative cock-up! I needed a glass washer that was about the size of a normal domestic washing machine and here he was trying to palm me off with some toy replica. As it turned out, this was the right machine for the job. It was not much bigger than a microwave oven and would take 16 glasses at a time, wash and rinse them inside of two minutes. If that was impressive so was the price. ALMOST £ 800!
Commercial cater equipment costs an absolute fortune. I remember that during the very first week after we bought the pub the glass washing machine started to play up. Now I was always under the impression that the glasses were cleaned by turning them upside down in a bowl of water that had an upturned revolving rubber stump with tentacles on it. Apparently that form of glass cleaning is no longer allowed. The glasses must now be cleaned in a machine that is basically a dish washer but with a much faster cycle. A two minute cycle. Which when you think about it makes sense. It wouldn’t be much use to you having to wait the 45 minutes or so that a normal dishwasher would take to complete a cycle. Anyway, the machine that was giving us trouble was a stainless steel contraction about the size of a normal dishwasher and without it functioning we would have to close the pub. So, a quick call home, as Kelly was now installed in the pub yet, had Kelly tracking down a new machine. She rang back to say that there was one waiting for me at a commercial supplier in nearby Redditch, all paid for and ready for collection. Great, off I went. On arrival I walked into the delivery point and was spotted straight away as the person coming to collect a glass washer. “There it is” said the helpful guy pointing towards the floor, with the paperwork just needing a signature I would be loaded and away in minutes. But for the life of me I couldn’t see a machine big enough that resembled the broken piece of crap that I had left behind at the pub. He pointed again after noticing my confused expression. Nothing registered. When he eventually pointed specifically to a small eighteen inch square box on the floor. I knew that somewhere between me, Kelly and the supplier there had been a communicative cock-up! I needed a glass washer that was about the size of a normal domestic washing machine and here he was trying to palm me off with some toy replica. As it turned out, this was the right machine for the job. It was not much bigger than a microwave oven and would take 16 glasses at a time, wash and rinse them inside of two minutes. If that was impressive so was the price. ALMOST £ 800!
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