Southside Café starts-up with Lincat
When a new catering establishment was required at Lincolnshire County Council’s Oak House business start-up centre, it seemed fitting for it to be a start-up café. As an experienced caterer who had always worked for others, Mary Haitt was pleased to have the opportunity to develop her own start-up business at the centre – Southside Café.
The ‘Spud’s Plaice fryer’ – a new Lincat record breaker…
In October last year, Rod Needham, the new owner of ‘Spud’s Plaice’, an Anglesey-based chip shop, called Lincat’s service department to order new elements for his counter-top fryer.
A straightforward request you might think, given the fact that Lincat maintains a stockholding of over half a million spare parts and components. However it soon became clear that Rod’s fryer was rather special – due to its advanced age.
Choosing a new fryer? Which is best – gas or electricity?
Choosing between gas and electricity is a key concern when it comes to buying a new fryer. In a nutshell gas fryers 
tend to be more expensive to buy but cheaper to run. This is due to the relative cost of gas and electricity in the UK at this time. But of course choices are rarely that easy to make and a range of other factors is likely to come into play.
Chief among these is the nature of the existing electricity supply to your kitchen. Inevitably this will have an upper limit and if you are currently operating at or near to it, a gas-powered fryer may be the only way to avoid the additional expense of upgrading your electricity supply. If you are choosing a fryer in addition to other equipment, and the electricity supply is limited, there may be certain pieces of equipment, for example an oven, which you may prefer to be powered by electricity. (more…)