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Putting a Spin on Kitchen Design
Delivering best value for the client has helped CHR score with current County Cricket Champions Lancashire County Cricket Club.
In the Club’s latest venture, the £12m The Point hospitality suite, CHR Equipment has halved overheads and improved operating efficiency by listening to the client and paying attention to the smallest detail. Further, the eco equipment has helped the Club net a Gold Award under the sustainable tourism certification, Green Tourism Business Scheme.
CHR, based in Lancashire, worked closely with LCCC head chef Nick Ashurst to develop the new kitchen, service points and bars in The Point, which can service up to 1000 covers in one sitting for a formal dinner.
Refrigeration recycles its heat output to reduce consumption, triple-skinned doors on fuel- efficient ovens optimize heat retention within, and pressure brat pans can cook up to 200 portions simultaneously in a third of the time of conventional brat pans. Three-tray cookers were chosen over two-tray versions to again optimize efficiency in fuel consumption and speed of preparation.
Head chef Nick Ashurst comments, “The efficiency of the kitchen goes beyond the equipment: its layout enables us to efficiently deliver, from preparation right through to service. We are saving on energy, and saving on payroll. CHR worked with the architect, listened to me, and added their own in-depth knowledge of developments, thinking outside the box, to supply and install a solution for our needs.
“The team at CHR plays with a straight bat. They listen to what you want, and work with you to deliver, all cost-competitively. I have worked with them for almost 15 years now: if a relationship works, why change it?”
Family owned and run, and ISO9001 accredited, CHR Equipment has a history spanning two decades of design, supply, installation and maintenance of commercial kitchens in locations from a test kitchen through to the Football Association headquarters. The company has, for three years in succession and each time in a different category, won CEDA Awards..
