Cut Your Prep Time with a Commercial Food Processor

If you are using fresh ingredients and creating on site, you can cut your prep time significantly with the right commercial food processor. Rather than having workers spending valuable time chopping vegetables or shredding cheese, let the right equipment do the tedious work instead. And food processors can do much more specialized tasks such as kneading dough in a bakery, making ice cream or sorbet in your sweet shop, creating custom soups in a bistro, or slicing potatoes into French fries or waffle cuts in a deli. Saving time makes for happy customers who are served in a timely manner.

Food Processing Options
The main choices are batch bowls which are contained units that hold the product, process it, and then dispense it and continuous feeds that process the food into a separate container. There are also combination models that incorporate both bowls and external containers for rapid and continuous processing. Another option is a buffalo chopper which is a heavier duty processor that can handle a variety of food and is a multi-purpose powerhouse worker.

Motor Up and Slice
A major decision is determining the size of the motor in your processor. Choosing a large motor is great if you have a large volume of food to process but can be an unnecessary expense if you aren’t processing great amounts or are only handling delicate items.
Attachments are another important selection especially blade discs that can allow you to custom cut and create signature items for your customers.

Which Food Processor Should You Purchase?
Why blindly choose when you can get equipment that meets your specific commercial kitchen needs. General Parts Group’s knowledge of area manufacturers and distributors will help you find the best equipment based on the types of food you serve, the volume of activity in your kitchen, and the space you have for new equipment. They’ll help you review critical details including proper warranty coverage. With the processor in place, they will assist you with restaurant equipment repair. They can repair your food processor at one of their locations so that they are not impeding the workflow in your kitchen.

Get Working
Food processors are the best way to create an efficient working space in your restaurant kitchen, bakery, or any commercial food preparation space. The right one in the correct size and power and with the proper attachments will save you time and money and let your staff work smarter not harder. Let General Parts Group help you keep your food processor working for you and keep you working at full speed.

Repair or Replace
Your food processor will probably be a key piece of equipment in your kitchen and will undoubtedly over time succumb to the usual wear and tear experienced by any piece of equipment used commercially.  However, not all food processors are viable for repair so General Parts Group will provide an honest assessment of the costs of repair versus the costs of replacement. It is not always cost-effective to repair smaller pieces of equipment. General Parts’ rule-of-thumb recommendation is, if your countertop processor was purchased for less than $1000 and is not working, before you call for service, investigate what a new unit will cost. You may not want to go down the ‘fix it’ route, if investing in a new unit is equitable. Don’t hesitate to contact General Parts Group with questions, their expertise in restaurant equipment repair and commercial equipment allows them to advise which choice is the best option for your business.