Dishwashers for dining rooms

Canteens are traditionally the most popular public catering establishments because you can eat there quickly, tasty and inexpensively. The canteen staff must also work quickly and efficiently, not to mention the equipment. A dishwasher for a dining room also has special requirements, not like equipment in a bar or restaurant. You need to choose such a dishwasher very carefully, so we will help you do this by presenting this review.

By what criteria to choose

From a professional point of view, canteens differ from each other, primarily in their traffic. There are canteens in small companies for staff only. They prepare a small number of portions, most often according to pre-assembled orders for no more than 50 people. Such canteens can easily be used with a household dishwasher, and we won’t talk about them today.

Canteens that offer visitors at least 100 servings per meal need a professional dishwasher, since it is difficult to wash 100 plates, 100 mugs, 200 spoons and forks by hand, and you still need to prepare food for the next meal.

1. For establishments that serve from 100 to 300 servings per meal, front-facing industrial dishwashers with small and medium productivity are suitable.
2. If the dining room prepares from 400 to 2500 servings for lunch or other daily meals, then they will already need a dome or tunnel dishwasher with at least an average productivity of 40-50 baskets per hour. Such canteens are found in large institutions and manufacturing companies.
3. Well, if an establishment serves a huge number of visitors, serving 3,000 or more servings per meal, it needs a productive tunnel-type dishwasher that washes 80-100 baskets per hour.

The largest canteens are usually at large city-forming enterprises, whose production complexes are located outside the city. For workers, the only place where they can eat is the canteen, so there is no end to visitors.

It is very important that cafeteria workers can wash all dirty dishes in one load to avoid wasting time. If the productivity of the machine is not enough, then the equipment and people will be unnecessarily overloaded, who will spend a lot of extra time in order to wash everything. But you need to prepare for the next meal. In a large dining room, the food preparation process is almost an assembly line production that goes on almost continuously. Delays due to insufficient performance of one or another equipment are unacceptable.

In addition to the fact that the equipment must be productive, it must also be reliable. If the dishwasher breaks down in the middle of the working day, the work of the canteen will be paralyzed, since it is impossible to wash thousands of plates by hand. You also need to think about ensuring that the machine uses less water and detergents. Some kind of savings, but still, it’s very important that it copes well with its main function - washing dishes.

Next, we will present for your consideration a review of dishwashers, which was prepared with the participation of specialists in the repair of professional dishwashers and employees of two large canteens. They gave a whole range of advice and helped select four models of equipment, which, in their opinion, are a little better than all the others. If you are interested in information about professional and industrial dishwashers In general, read the article of the same name, previously published on our website.

AVAT MPT-1700

This tunnel dishwasher has a very high capacity of up to 95 baskets per hour. If we consider that one basket includes 18 standard plates, it turns out that this machine can wash 1710 plates in 1 hour. Ideal for large dining rooms. In this machine, baskets full of dishes move along a conveyor from left to right, entering the washing compartment, and then into the rinsing and drying compartments. At the exit, the canteen workers receive clean and dry plates.

In addition to plates, this machine perfectly washes cutlery, glasses and some non-standard dishes. The machine is not intended for washing pots, large frying pans, baking trays, etc.

1. The equipment was made in Russia.
2. Connects to hot water supply.
3. Has dispensers for detergent and rinse aid.
4. Designed for 500x500 mm cassettes.
5. The largest plates allowed for loading are 400 mm.
6. The washing boiler holds up to 100 liters of hot water.
7. The rinsing boiler holds 17 liters of water.
8. The washing bath is equipped with several filters.

AVAT MPT-1700 is standardly equipped with only four cassettes for plates and two cassettes for glasses and cups, so the estimated cost must include the purchase of additional cassettes. The cassettes should accommodate all the plates and glasses in the dining room, so it’s easy to calculate the required number. The current price of the model is $5,614.

GASTRORAG HDW-80

And this is a dome-type dishwasher. Its productivity is slightly lower - 50 baskets per hour. This means that the equipment can wash 900 small plates in just 1 hour. The machine works as follows. The canteen worker places the cassette under the dome, closes it, and the entire washing process takes place automatically. A person only needs to have time to change cassettes. Perhaps the washing process is not as convenient as in a tunnel-type machine, but still.

1. The machine is made in China, but despite this, the quality of its assembly and materials is very high.
2. There are containers for detergents and rinse aid.
3. There is a tray washing function.
4. Accepts 50x50 cm cassettes.
5. The largest plates allowed for loading are 42 cm.

The basic package includes only 2 cassettes and one cutlery basket, so you need to take care of purchasing additional accessories. The average cost of GASTRORAG HDW-80 is $2,300.

SMEG PROFESSIONAL UD503D

For relatively small dining rooms, the SMEG PROFESSIONAL UD503D front-facing dishwasher is ideal. This technique is in great demand and is often used in European hotels, bars, restaurants, etc. This is a good professional dishwasher for a school cafeteria, which will last for several decades until it becomes completely obsolete. Despite the modest size of the body, the machine can wash up to 40 cassettes per hour. And this is as many as 720 small plates for just one hour - impressive.

Cassettes in front cameras use standard 500x500 mm.

The equipment is entirely assembled in Italy. This is not some contract Chinese assembly, the dishwasher is “pure” Italian. It is equipped with a pump for pumping out waste water, dispensers for rinse aid and liquid detergent. In addition, the machine has three washing programs, which is very good for professional equipment.Needless to say, the machine copes with its task 120%, so even the most stubborn dirt will be washed off from dishes and cutlery without mercy.

In the line of these dishwashers there are models with a capacity of 24 and 15 cassettes, so if the dining room is very small, you can take a less powerful machine, it will be cheaper. The cost of the model we described is $1,910.

APACH AF500

Another Italian with the same performance of 40 cassettes, but at a much lower cost. Today this model can be ordered for $1,520. The machine can be connected to hot water and loaded with plates with a maximum height of 345 mm. The equipment is distinguished by a seamless washing chamber and a body made entirely of stainless steel. There is a rinse aid dispenser, but no detergent dispenser, which is not a significant drawback.

APACH AF500 has special thermally insulated walls that prevent the water from cooling down and improve the quality of washing. The machine is equipped with a basket for plates, a basket for glasses and a special insert for cutlery.

Well, we have completed our task; we have presented to you a review of the best dishwashers for dining rooms with different numbers of visitors. Now all you have to do is choose the right machine, having calculated everything in advance, order it and pay for the order. How you will do this, which company you will contact, is essentially not of interest to us. The main thing is that the machine is worthy of your establishment, that it works well and for a long time. Good luck!

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