Welcome to the Pace Reps Foodservice Equipment Blog

There’s a lot to be said about how efficient a school lunchroom must operate on a normal school day when kids are in school. Between breakfasts, lunches, and after school programs, the lunchroom is always bustling with growing kids to feed and short time slots to feed everyone in line.

Topics: school nutrition, school lunch hero

Working in a school kitchen environment can be a uniquely rewarding experience due to the opportunity to directly impact the health and well-being of K-12 students. At the same time, there’s no getting around the fact it can often include its stressors as well.

Topics: school nutrition, RATIONAL

Who doesn't love a good bowl of chili on a chilly night? That's where it gets its name, right? You've got the sautéed onions and peppers, the browned meat, the aroma of spices climbing out of the pot and steaming up the windows -- all of these things contribute to one of America's best-loved dishes.

Topics: Pace Reps, trends, RATIONAL

Robot-Coupe has come up with another ingenious piece of equipment that simplifies several tasks in a commercial kitchen. Ideal for use in restaurants, hotels, nursing care facilities, day care centers and hospitals, the Blixer combines the features of a bowl type food processor and a blender/mixer, ultimately allowing for the production of incredibly smooth and homogenized menu items.

Topics: food processing, Robot Coupe

Innovative menus, ingredients bursting with health and flavor, value, and sustainability supported by leading edge technology are high on the list of trends that will shape the food service industry in 2020.

Topics: school nutrition, trends, hospitality, c-stores, delivery

Walk-in refrigeration systems are a critical part of most food service operations’ food safety, food storage, and overall operational efficiency. Pace Reps is pleased to offer walk-in refrigerators and freezers from Arctic, which in turn offers three different series of products, each providing a different list of benefits to the customer.

Let's take a quick look at how these three options differ and the benefits offered by each.

Topics: refrigeration, Arctic

When it comes to foodservice in today’s environment, it’s important for units to be user-friendly, durable, and low maintenance. Labor shortages often demand this, as we want to make it as easy as possible for interchanging staff. Victory’s UltraSpec Series commercial refrigeration takes this into consideration and more.

Topics: refrigeration, Victory, HACCP

Designs matter in foodservice. From the layout of the entire building to the arrangement of the dining room to the throughput of the kitchen and even down to the way the components of a dish are situated on the plate, the structure and order of things makes a difference.

Topics: CIAM, foodservice displays

As you may know, Pace Reps is a proud representative of RATIONAL combi ovens. We recognize their place as the industry leader and original inventor of the combi oven category, and we enjoy showing off these units to operators.

Topics: school nutrition, RATIONAL

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Topics: water, Terry, Citryne