This month we take a look at hot mobile cabinets, heated transport carts and banquet carts used to transport or bulk or plated food. In gallery below we do not include units designed for healthcare meal transport; we’ll cover those models another time. We invited major suppliers of heated carts and similar mobile units to…

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One of the most recent foodservice equipment categories added to the Energy Star program also may be the longest in development so far. Griddles were the first type of equipment for which Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s Food Service Technology Center in San Ramon, Calif., developed a standardized test method more than 20 years ago,…

Picture different jurisdictions and entities staking out their territories and trying to raise the bar, and you’ll picture what’s been happening in the commercial ice-machine business. Effective Jan. 1, 2010, you’ll have a base-line federal minimum standard for energy efficiency. Then apart from that, there’s been the California Energy Commission standard in that state. And…

An obvious energy target, one using a lot of fuel and losing a lot of it in the form of heat gain, warewashers had to be addressed sooner or later. In October 2007, just in time for the North American Association of Food Equipment Manufacturers� NAFEM Show in Atlanta that year, Energy Star finalized its…