FOOD HYGIENE
SERVING UP SAFETY ACROSS EUROPE
Several of the world’s most well known fast food franchises have turned to Altro to install safety flooring and wall cladding products in their kitchens, enabling employees to maintain a higher standard of hygiene. We hear of three separate cases from across Europe.
Altro safety flooring and wall cladding products have received the international seal of approval from three world-famous fast food chains. The UK-developed Altro Stronghold 30 safety flooring and Altro Whiterock hygienic wall cladding have been installed in fast food outlets in the UK, Europe and beyond.
Installed separately, or in combination as an integrated system, Altro safety flooring and wall cladding products are delivering highly-
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ANSWER FOR PRET A MANGER For Pret a Manger, Altro’s integrated flooring and walling system was the solution for outstanding performance and simplified cleaning.
Pret a Manger – a British-owned company – offers a combination of fresh ingredients and fast food: all the sandwiches and salads are prepared on the day in the restaurant kitchen, with fresh products delivered daily. The company chose Altro Stronghold 30 safety flooring with a coved skirting, to form a continuous, impermeable, surface with Altro Whiterock hygienic wall cladding. This floor-wall solution is easy to clean, resistant to grime and tough enough to tolerate knocks from trolleys and other kitchen equipment.
Altro Stronghold 30 is a 3mm thick safety flooring designed for use in demanding, wet and greasy conditions where frequent spillage is likely, so it is ideal for commercial kitchen use. Boasting Altro’s highest rating for slip resistance, it also offers long-term durability and ease of cleaning as well as added noise reduction, comfort and strength underfoot. Altro Stronghold
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effective protection in the kitchens of the world’s best known fast food restaurants. Durable and impact- resistant, they are tough products for tough environments.
Hygiene standards and the safety of employees and customers are key priorities for fast food outlets. Kitchens in these highly-pressurised restaurants need to be functional to ensure that food can be prepared quickly and efficiently, however busy the outlet may become. Flooring
benefits from a 15-year warranty and offers 20 years’ lifetime sustained slip resistance, keeping risk of a slip to just one in a million over this period of time.
Altro Whiterock is a cost-effective sheet extruded from a high quality, food safe PVCu polymer for operating temperatures up to 60°C. It is waterproof, easy to clean, impact resistant and grout-free. It meets current EU Directives on health and hygiene.
Having proved its effectiveness in Pret a Manger’s British restaurants, the management of the French chain decided to specify the Altro solution
needs to withstand demanding, wet and greasy conditions where frequent spillage is likely, providing a hard- wearing, slip-resistant surface. Wall cladding needs to be waterproof, easy to clean and impact resistant to enable employees to maintain high standards of hygiene.
Three of the world’s best known fast food chains – McDonalds, KFC and Pret a Manger – have found that Altro products excel when installed in these demanding environments.
in its own outlets. Pret a Manger Operations Support Manager, Adrien Garcia, said: “The Altro floors and walls in the kitchen can be cleaned with jet washers, which ensures impeccable hygiene while simultaneously saving time on cleaning.
“Our other priority is safety, and the slip-resistant properties of Altro flooring respond perfectly to our demands. In addition, with a certified installer, the installation is extremely quick: the restaurant kitchen at Issy les Moulineaux, just outside Paris, was completed in one week.”
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