32 Case Studies Hot food profit pod is a winner for HKS Retail
IN A JOINT venture, Adande and Gamble Retail Solutions have supplied a hot foodservice ‘profit pod’ to HKS Retail’s forecourt store at a BP filling station in Leicester.
The installation is part of the retailer’s new concept aimed at delivering fast service for hot food to go, including freshly baked pizzas, hot filled rolls, pastries, muffins, bagels, breakfast items and chips, as well as hot and cold drinks. The development of HKS Retail’s new foodservice concept was driven by a desire to present a different style of freshly prepared hot food offer without the need for major investment in equipment or taking up a significant amount of floor space within the forecourt store. At the Leicester site the foodservice area occupies only a 3m by 2.5m footprint and represents an investment of less than £18,000, including ancillary foodservice equipment, hot drink machines and shop fitting. The ‘profit pod’ comprises a Gamble Ovention Matchbox 1313 oven, conveniently mounted on an Adande two drawer refrigerator. With a footprint of just 1100 mm width by 700 mm depth, the unit provides a compact and complete solution for the storage, cooking and service of hot food to go.
The large capacity of the Adande refrigerated drawers allows greater volumes of food to be stored conveniently at the point of preparation and service, eliminating the need for operators to leave their workstation to fetch merchandise. The unique ‘hold the cold’ technology of the Adande units means that food may be held over extended periods, without compromise to product quality or
appearance. The ability to control holding temperatures, independently within each drawer, allows chilled and frozen food to be stored within the same unit for even greater operational versatility. The Ovention Matchbox 1313 oven uses revolutionary precision impingement technology, delivering over twice the volume of hot air and better air concentration than conventional conveyor ovens for speed and cooked food quality. The oven features two cooking surfaces, which load at the tap of a touchpad, allowing the preloading of one batch, whilst the other is cooking. There is
also an automatic unload function to prevent overcooking. The controller can accommodate up to 1000 pre programmed cooking settings, each with three stages and two events, for optimum management of cooking time, temperature and independent blower speeds, eliminating the need for skilled foodservice operatives. Food is cooked in a closed cavity with multiple catalytic converters, breaking down grease into moist hot air, which is used in the cooking process for improved quality and healthier food. The catalytic converters also clean the oven’s exhaust air, eliminating the need for costly and often inconvenient extraction hoods. Shane Thakrar, sales director, HKS Retail Ltd, stated: “The combination of the Adande drawer unit and the Gamble Ovention Matchbox oven is an excellent fit with our hot food to go offer. It provides a compact solution for the storage, cooking and preparation of freshly prepared fast food throughout the day. The simplicity of the ‘profit pod’ also offers significant advantages for our business, as unskilled operators may be trained in two hours, eliminating the need for experienced foodservice professionals.”
He added: “We have been very pleased with the success of the initiative at our Leicester site and have plans to roll out the concept at suitable outlets across our estate.”
HKS Retail Ltd is a specialist convenience retailer, partnering leading brands in the forecourt, convenience and food to go sectors. The company currently has 34 outlets located in the M1 corridor and around the M25.
www.adande.com Modular data centre facility runs with Keysource
KEYSOURCE, THE DATA centre and design build specialist, has been awarded the contract to deliver an industry leading modular data centre facility for ICT experts ITPS at the company’s new site near Newcastle upon Tyne.
The IT facility, which will deliver over 8,500 square feet of data centre space and host over 300 racks, will provide space for both hosted and cloud services as well as colocation space, project and build rooms, and 270 workspace recovery seats. The modular facility has been designed to enable future expansion without disrupting the live critical environment. The initial phase will see a deployment of 124 racks with an initial capacity of 300kW, rising to 1.4MW for specialist high capacity implementations.
Meeting the strict resilience and uptime requirements, critical power from the
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onsite substation is backed up by an N+1 UPS system and standby diesel generation. With efficiency and performance key to the requirement, the modular data centre will incorporate highly efficient room flood cooling systems.
Using variable speed control fans, air will be provided through wall rather than using a conventional raised floor. This combined with efficient heat rejection will deliver a design PUE2 in the region of 1.2*.
Garry Sheriff, managing director of ITPS, said: “The new building is our fourth ISO27001-certified data centre and forms the hub of our Network Operations Centre.
“It is the culmination of a three-year plan to create a flagship data centre with a very specific set of client-driven features, and it was important that we found the
right partner to work with. Keysource shared our vision and innovative approach, and the team’s track record for project delivery gave us confidence in their ability to help us create a new hub from which to expand our delivery of secure, high capacity data centre services to clients across the UK and mainland Europe.”
Rob Elder, director, Keysource, added: “This project for ITPS goes to show that there is a huge increase in demand for professional data centre capacity and cloud solutions across the whole of the UK. We are delighted to be working with ITPS and to have developed a design and an approach which matches the scalable nature of its infrastructure deployments in a highly flexible, secure and efficient data centre solution.”
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